4 Sept 2023

Digitalization of Healthcare

I will admit that I am a huge Star Trek fan. Star Trek, which premiered on TV in 1966, the same year I was born, follows the same pattern as Greek drama: the struggle between good and evil, the small heroes against the great unknown, morality and justice prevailing over chaos.

27 Feb 2023

Opportunities in the Middle East

The Middle East is a region that most of us have associated with oil, civil wars, unrest, religious extremism, backward leaders, and general chaos over the years, occasionally spiced up with images from Dubai's shopping malls and luxury hotels. The developments of the last decade, largely unnoticed in the West, mean that this picture must be reassessed.

9 Jan 2023

More Swedish Unicorns with Norwegian Capital

The best news of the year came early this year. Last Saturday, news broke that Norges Bank Investment Management, more commonly known as the "Norwegian Oil Fund", through its CEO Nicolas Tangen and Central Bank Governor Ida Wolden Bache, applied to the Norwegian Ministry of Finance to seek a mandate to invest in unlisted equities.

22 Dec 2022

Christmas is Approaching

On January 1 next year, in just a few weeks, Sweden will take over the EU's presidency — a heavy task in these turbulent times. Sweden will host more than 2,300 meetings, most of which will take place here on Swedish soil.

26 Oct 2022

The Empire Strikes Back?

Old Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is rumoured to have said that there are two things you do not want to know about how they are made: sausages and laws. No statement could fit better to describe the state of British politics.

11 Oct 2022

This Crisis is Not Eternal.

This year's Nobel Prize in Economics (or more correctly "The Swedish Riksbank's Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel") was awarded to three well-known economists who studied a long series of banking crises.