The bizarre situation of buying stocks for dividends and bonds for capital gains is all down to ultra low interest rates globally. Dividend stocks are not perfect substitutes for fixed income bonds.

MGOs, VGOs, the creeper rule and schemes of arrangement affect your rights as a shareholder.

James Hay and team who visit 600 companies a year laments the lack of corporate governance in Malaysian and Asean listed companies.

The Morning Run team debate the advantages and disadvantages of active and passive investment strategies. Listen to the podcast to learn more about ‘Flowmageddon’, the phenomenon of massive money flowing out of ‘active’ funds to ‘passive' funds.

The world wants inflation but is struggling to get it. Are we at risk of inching closer to deflation and if we are, what do we invest in?

In a stab at accountability and transparency, Bank Negara proposes to bifurcate chairpeople and CEOs, prevent directors' overstaying and paying bonuses in instalments. Why? And will it work?

Does the investee-owner have a mistress or a gambling habit? These are some of the things Yong Kwek Ping considers while doing due diligence for private equity investments in China.

Bank Negara's rate cut is making us ponder about what it takes to stir economic growth. We can't seem to avoid fingering the role of government-linked corporations in elbowing out the kind of innovation that can come from private enterprises.

As of today, nearly $13 trillion of hard-earned global capital sits in government bonds offering negative yields. up from nearly none a couple years ago. Almost all this paper belongs to heavily indebted but so-called 'developed' countries like Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. How did we get here? What does it mean? And what's next? The team discuss a phenomenon which has frightening similarities with 2009, when 'subprime' took the form of individual borrowers, not indebted nations..

Being the darling of the frontier markets, Vietnam has made many early investors happy. Would Vietnam's trajectory follow China's with decades more returns to come?