The Global CFO Study 2008 - Balancing Risk & Performance

In the globally interdependent marketplace, organisations need to perform well and to outperform their peers with consistently strong growth and big profits. They want to be superbly agile with change, tenacious with unexpected opportunities and resilient to risk. Read the new IBM study of more than 1,200 CFOs and senior Finance professionals to find out how organsiations are balancing risk and performance.

The trader is dead, long live the trader! A financial markets renaissance

In the face of commoditization and fierce competition, financial markets firms have continued to thrive by innovating and hustling, leading to an overall 15 percent return on equity (ROE) over the last decade, compared to 8.7 percent ROE for the average company. Firms have also benefited from the edge provided by proprietary information access and market insight, but these advantages will come under significant pressure over the next decade as two inexorable trends accelerate: transparency and speed. Firms must be able to succeed in an environment where analysis, not knowledge, is the value creator, and where it’s not seconds that count, but milliseconds.



Get global. Get specialized. Or get out. Unexpected lessons in global financial markets

As growth opportunities in mature markets are evaporating, which firms will seize new emerging profit pools? Get global. Get specialized. Or get out. Find out some unexpected lessons in global financial markets.





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