Education and Career

It was the latter half of December in Tokyo.  My fellow expatriates had left or were getting ready to leave for family reunions in their home country or vacations elsewhere.  A senior Japanese colleague asked me when I was leaving to spend the year-end holidays with my family in the...

The job market has significantly changed over the last 50 years, especially in the United States. Today’s workforce is completely different from the previous ones, from their habits, interests to their point of market entry. Other changes, such as moving offices to cheaper locations, new technologies and various social factors...

The number of millionaires may be the highest in the United States (8.68 million), China (1.88 million), and Japan (1.62 million), but that is not where they are growing the fastest. According to Global research firm Wealth-X, Nigeria, Egypt, and Bangladesh are set to produce more new millionaires than China...

Australia has come fifth in a list of countries with the most women business owners as a percentage of total business owners. Ghana is at the top of the list, with 46.4% of businesses owned by women. Following Ghana is Russia with 34.6%, Uganda with 33.8%, New Zealand with 33%,...

Indonesia, the island chain, has been voted the most “chilled out” country in the world, followed by Australia and Iceland, a new study has revealed. Claiming fourth place in the ranking is New Zealand, followed by Sri Lanka in 5th. In sixth-placed is Cyprus followed by the Philippines (seventh), Greece...

The United States has the highest number of high net worth individuals in the world, according to a new report from wealth research firm Wealth-X. The U.S. is home to the highest proportion of high-net-worth residents - 8.7 million in 2018. Meaning the U.S. accounted for nearly 40% of the...

Only 3.9 percent of people in the labor force were out of work in December 2018, compared to 3.7 percent November 2018 (a low not seen since 1969), and 4.1 percent in December 2017. That’s good news for millions of Americans! Why? The short answer: The economy is good. In...

As of 2018, nearly 6 in 10 women aged 16 and older (57.1 percent) worked outside the home, compared with 33.9% in 1950 and 43.3% in 1970. To determine female labor force participation rate in the United States from 1990 to 2018, CEOWORLD magazine used data from the Bureau of...

With a personal wealth of US$14.8 billion, Mining mogul Gina Rinehart is the richest person in Australia for 2019, according to the Forbes list. Property tycoon Harry Triguboff retain number 2 placing with a net worth of $US9 billion, while cardboard-box kingpin Anthony Pratt stays 3rd with $US6.8 billion, and...

As of December 2018, HSBC Holdings is the biggest bank in the United Kingdom in terms of market capitalization. HSBC Holdings led the ranking, with market capitalization amounting to around 129.6 billion British pounds (US$ 167.16 billion). Banco Santander SA was ranked second biggest on the London Stock Exchange, at...