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Martin Boujol

Martin has recently graduated from the university of St. Gallen with a master's degree in Business Innovation. He joined Flowbank in September 2020 as strategy assistant to the CIO. He has a strong interest in finance and new technologies and has a certain expertise in literature and philosophy.

16 September 2020

Determining your return on investment: 3 very simple formulas

As an investor, you need to be able to tell how profitable your portfolio is in order to make the next decision about buying, holding or selling. Do not worry, there is no need to be a math genius to do things right.

Stocks ・ Technology ・ Covid-19

16 September 2020

AstraZeneca: the new potential healing druid

The pharma giant AstraZeneca is working on a new vaccine for Covid-19 and could be well on its way to success.

Stocks ・ Technology

15 September 2020

Snowflake IPO about to make it rain!

Snowflake just boosted its IPO price yesterday, meaning that they will most likely raise more capital with a higher company valuation than initially expected.

Stocks ・ Technology

14 September 2020

TikTok rejects Microsoft’s offer and goes to Oracle

TikTok was in discussions to sell its music-video app on the US market, with Microsoft Corp as the most plausible candidate, but they recently decided to build a partnership with Oracle instead. Reasons for this sudden change are still ...

Stocks ・ Technology

14 September 2020

Arm sold to Nvidia for $40 billion

Nvidia communicated yesterday that they were acquiring chipmaker Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, 4 years after Softbank had acquired it for $32 billion.

Asset Allocation

14 September 2020

The effects of Covid-19 on the art market

A recent report published by Art Basel and UBS showed that art gallery sales fell 36% on average in the first half of 2020. In general, smaller galleries were hurt the most, while online selling platforms take on a growing importance.

Stocks ・ Technology

10 September 2020

Three great E-commerce (related) stocks to keep an eye on

The Global e-commerce market is expected to reach almost $7 trillion by 2023, up from $3.5 trillion in 2019 (Statista). In this blog we highlight three stocks which are likely to benefit from the boom of e-commerce.

Stocks ・ Technology

9 September 2020

Peloton: a winner from the lockdown

With a performance of more than 200 per cent year-to-date, Peloton (PTON) should be on everyone’s watchlist. In this blog post, we dig into the company's DNA, explore the reasons behind their success and the different variables investors should ...

Stocks ・ Technology

9 September 2020

Nikola Motor, the new EV* star?

The electric truck start up Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA) saw its shares jump over 40% when automobile giant General Motors announced taking a $2 billion stake (11% of the company) in the company.

Technology

8 September 2020

The Pentagon decided to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft. Again.

Much to Amazon’s dismay, the United States Department of Defense has decided to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft, while Amazon loses the fight once again

Stocks ・ Technology

7 September 2020

Market potential : Face masks 2.0 by LG electronics

LG Electronics recently announced that they would launch a new line of wearable air-purifying masks, seeing a great market potential in the coming years.

Investing

7 September 2020

Ant Group’s IPO: potentially the biggest in history

If Chinese billionaire Jack Ma already broke the record for the biggest IPO with Alibaba - $25 billion in 2014 – he could very well surpass it yet again with Ant Group’s IPO.

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