China passa EUA em número de bilionários

China has overtaken the US as home to the most dollar billionaires, according to the latest Hurun Rich List, with Wang Jianlin, the real estate tycoon, overtaking Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder, as the mainland’s wealthiest person.

Mr Wang also overtook Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, as the richest person in Greater China. Hurun values Mr Wang, 61, at $34.4bn, up 52 per cent from a year earlier, versus $32.7bn for Mr Li and $22.7bn for Mr Ma. Mr Wang topped the mainland list in 2013 but lost the title to Mr Ma last year.

China added 242 dollar billionaires in 2015, bringing its total to 596, against 537 in the US, according to the annual ranking of China’s wealthy. If Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are included, the Greater China total reaches 715.

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A indústria financeira beneficia a sociedade?

After the Great Recession, finance has gotten a bad rap as a professional calling: A survey last December found that nearly half of Americans think that the financial system hurts the economy. Even among readers of The Economist—where bankers presumably have home-field advantage—a poll found that 57 percent disagreed with the statement that “financial innovation boosts economic growth.”

Luigi Zingales, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, has been studying the public’s post-recession loss of faith in the financial sector. In a speech delivered in early January at the annual meeting of the American Finance Association, Zingales argued that academic economists' views on the financial sector are too rosy in comparison to the public's mistrust.

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Resumo do artigo publicado no Journal of Finance;

Academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an underappreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.

ZINGALES, L. (2015), Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society?. The Journal of Finance, 70: 1327–1363. doi:10.1111/jofi.12295

AB Inbev + SABMiller

A compra da SABMiller pela AB Inbev por 104 bilhões de dólares possui número gigantescos:

* é a quarta maior aquisição da história e a maior do ano
* A nova empresa terá a participação de 28% do mercado depois dos ajustes necessários, o triplo da segunda maior empresa, a Heineken
* receita anual de 64 bilhões
* a nova empresa terá uma participação expressiva na África, o mercado que terá maior crescimento no futuro, além do mercado do Peru e Colômbia
* a SABMiller fabrica produtos da Coca-Cola em 25 países
* a nova empresa poderá ter um expressivo ganho de escala em diversos mercados, ajudando a reduzir o preço ou aumentar o lucro

Fonte: Mickle, Tripp. Negócio redesenha o mapa mundial da indústria. Valor Econômico, 14 out 2015.

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