Media interest in leadership continues apace and unabated. Central to this interest is the simple, but not easy, question, what drives effective leadership?

Based on theory, research and practice, it is believed that being an effective leader is a mix of three determining factors: country context, organisational culture and personal competence. Understanding of each of these three influences helps leaders know how to be more effective. Professor Chris Rowley explains more.

The traditional assumption made in life insurance about the independence of the remaining lifetimes of a couple has come under greater scrutiny recently.

In this paper, the researchers postulate that dependence between coupled lifetimes is of a short-term type. Evidence is found that mortality rates increase after the death of a partner and, in addition, that this phenomenon diminishes over time.

The aim of this paper is to analyse data dependencies and patterns in historic currency time series data and implement trading rules that lead to abnormal currency returns that cannot be explained by any systematic risk taking.

This paper analyses momentum effects in G10 currencies by applying survival analysis common in life time statistics to shed a new light on the market efficiency within the currency market.

This paper examines knowledge management practices within the investment banking sector, using two international banking institutions as examples, focusing on the work of key professionals - securities analysts and equity traders.

It finds a knowledge gap which is partly historical, as the professional licencing requirements of securities analysts has not, to date, included specific skill development in the qualitative forms of data analysis required for systematic human capital analysis.