LONDON, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s 40 largest mining companies continued to consolidate their stellar performance of the past several years by delivering steady growth in 2018, according to PwC’s Mine 2019 report released today. As a group, the Top 40 increased revenue by 8%, buoyed by higher commodity price rises, and lifted [...]
SAINT-PREX, Switzerland, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent survey findings highlighted there are misconceptions underlying bedwetting, a condition that is under-recognised and misunderstood by society and healthcare professionals.3,4 A frequent misconception of bedwetting is that the cause is psychological, rather than having a multifactorial pathophysiological basis.1,4 Furthermore, the survey revealed that not only parents but [...]
ATLANTA, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Private markets funds have continued to rake in new commitments from institutional investors eager to diversify their portfolios and capture the returns private markets investments can offer. However, investors are now tempering their private markets return expectations. Coupled with other industry trends, this will have implications for private markets [...]
NEW YORK, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — YPO, the premier global leadership organization for more than 27,000 chief executives, conducted a survey of its members in over 130 countries to get their latest thoughts on innovation and its implications for the future of their businesses. YPO’s 2019 Global Pulse Innovation Survey, conducted between 29 April [...]
LONDON, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest edition of PwC’s bimonthly Global Economy Watch has found that African economies could receive a windfall of £23bn if each economy applied similar governance reforms equivalent to those made by Cote d’Ivoire since 2013. The continent-wide economic analysis modelled the performance of each country across six of [...]
NEW YORK, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — CEO turnover hit a record high of 17 percent in turbulent 2018 but there is a group of executives holding steady according to the 2018 CEO Success study released today by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. The study, which analysed CEO successions at the world’s largest 2,500 public [...]
ASHBURN, Va., Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey from Infovista, the leader in modern network performance, finds that only 25 percent of mobile network operators say they are extremely prepared for 5G, citing as their top concerns making sure their 5G network works correctly, the rollout stays within budgets, not being late to [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Corruption is a major threat faced by China and anyone who wants to do business in the country. In recent years, the Chinese government’s crackdowns in corruption has led to some success. In the Berlin-based non-profit Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2017, China ranked 77th with a score [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s ocean trade is set to surpass its air trade over the next three months, keeping the country’s trade volumes stable amidst short-term volatility, according to data from the DHL Global Trade Barometer released by DHL, the world’s leading logistics company. The DHL Global Trade Barometer, an early indicator of [...]
LONDON, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Organisations should focus on developing stronger digital skills and capacity in their risk function in order to make more informed decisions about risk in a technology-driven world, according to the eighth edition of PwC’s Risk In Review study. The 2019 study has found that while many organisations have already [...]