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The Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua: Redefining Global Luxury Living in 2026 A $400 Million Vision for Modern Island Living: Antigua’s luxury real estate market is preparing for a major inflection point. In early 2026, The Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua — a $400 million...

Billionaire challenges the MBA default Liemandt’s comments on Codie Sanchez’s “Big Deal” podcast cut through years of polite debate on graduate business education. Asked directly whether ambitious young people should get an MBA, he answered with an unambiguous “no,” calling it an easy decision in his mind. In his view,...

 "The Index Is Going Nowhere": Leon Cooperman’s Stark Warning on the S&P 500’s Outlook --- A Market on the Edge of Complacency. Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman—known for plain-spoken market calls and contrarian insights—has issued one of his most sober warnings in recent years. Despite a historic five-year run that pushed...

Switzerland’s “No” Vote Sends a Loud Signal to Global Wealth: The Haven Strategy Is Intact Switzerland has long sold something money cannot easily buy elsewhere: institutional continuity. It’s a nation that competes not with spectacle but with predictability—rules that rarely lurch, property rights that hold, a political system designed to...

Women are rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global capital—and wealth management is not keeping pace. Women already control roughly one-third of retail financial assets in the U.S. and EU, a share expected to climb to 40–45% by 2030, yet a disproportionate amount of that wealth sits...

The Early Years: How a Small Start Became a 30-Year Career Every long-lasting business has a story behind it. For Mike Purvis, founder of J Michael’s Painting, Inc., that story began in 1991 in Newark, Delaware. His mission was simple: do quality work and treat customers well. “I didn’t have...

The CEO Access Paradox: Why Elite Connections Are Harder—and Easier—Than Ever In 2025, the tension at the top has reached its peak: access to Fortune 500 CEOs and the world’s most powerful decision-makers has never been more coveted—or more tightly controlled. For the ambitious, the gate seems higher. Yet, new...

Each autumn, thousands of investors in the Baron Capital fund file into one of the most iconic venues in America, New York City’s Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera House. In its typical life, the space hosts Puccini and Bizet. But once a year, it becomes something else entirely:...

No Time to Waste: Why Board Meeting Frequency Demands Rethinking Who’s really benefiting when boards swamp executive teams with meetings or, worse, meet too rarely? For top-performing organizations, getting the meeting cadence right has stakes in the billions. A board’s rhythm is more than logistics: it’s the pulse of oversight,...

Geopolitical instability, market uncertainty, inflation, and supply-chain disruption are facts of daily life for business leaders today. Those challenging issues raise a common question: How do leaders build stability and long-term success amid all the chaos? I’ve lived that challenge. In my journey from a young girl navigating the adversity...