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The Virtuous Circle of Sustainability
The issue of sustainability in real estate is on everyone’s lips, but there is still much uncertainty about how ESG criteria can be applied and how their value can be measured. The only belief shared by all stakeholders is that sustainability should be a key element of any urban regeneration project; because it is only by respecting and integrating environmental and social dimensions into business ...
Positive Effects on Performance, Both Direct and Indirect
We decided to explore the role of governance for the sustainable growth of Italian businesses in various forms, thanks to the database of our Business Observatory, which encompasses the population of medium and large enterprises under family, state, coalition, and financial control (approximately 6,150) with a turnover exceeding 50 million euros (Figure 1). Figure 1 The ownership structure of the ...
Growing to Preserve Italian Excellences: The Role of Investors
The value of the Italian system Italy is a country with numerous excellent products that stand out for creativity, design, innovation, and the quality of its products and services. These are recognized and admired excellences worldwide, the result of the vision of great entrepreneurs, a culture of work, the pursuit of beauty, and a continuous exploration in inventing valuable products, passed ...
Compliance Issues are Relevant Factors for Strategic Decision-Making
By characterizing choices around (good) governance as a strategic factor for the company, it follows that even compliance-related issues, when evaluated in terms of their impact on governance, can influence decision-making and capture the attention of top management. In fact, the need for compliance can dictate the timing, shifting the axis of priorities and accelerating internal decision-making processes. ...
Specialized and Fast. The Secrets of the Success of Italian SPACs on the Stock Exchange
SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) are corporate vehicles containing only cash, established by the initiative of founding members (known as sponsors) to raise financial resources through a listing on regulated stock markets (Initial Public Offering, IPO) (Conca, 2021). The capital raised through the IPO is used to select and acquire an operating company (target), not known beforehand, within ...
The Failure of FTX and the Future of Cryptocurrencies
Critical aspects of the crypto world Crises are a structural element of financial markets, and despite everything done to prevent them, they will continue to occur. In fact, financial innovation not only fails to prevent crises but sometimes even plays a leading role in them. At the core of these crises, there are typically three phenomena that often occur simultaneously: ...
The resurgence of M&A. Interview with Mr. Gregg Lemkau, Global Head M&A Goldman Sachs
Dear Mr. Lemkau, 2014 seems a very good year for M&A. Recent announced mega deals (see, for example, in the Cable TV, social media and pharmaceutical business) have opened the year in a risk on mood for corporations and investors. Can you please give us your point of view about the driving forces behind this renewed upward trend? We are certainly seeing a resurgence of M&A activity in ...
Pension Funds’ Long Term Investment: A Huge Potential Demand. Interview with Mr. Raffaele Della Croce, Lead Manager, Long-term Investment Project, OECD
Looking back at the past few years, the spectrum of possible interested investors in infrastructure is now much broader. Can you please provide an overview of the different channels to infrastructure investments available to the private sector? Infrastructure can be financed using different capital channels. The evolution of the capital markets shows that financial innovation develops new financial ...