What do you think of when you hear the word “technology”? Do you think of jet planes and laboratory equipment and underwater farming? Or do you think of smartphones and machine-learning algorithms? Venture capitalist Peter Thiel guesses it’s the latter. When a grave-faced announcer on CNBC says “technology stocks are down today,” we all know
What Is Property Insurance? Property insurance is a broad term for a series of policies that provide either property protection or liability coverage for property owners. Property insurance provides financial reimbursement to the owner or renter of a structure and its contents in case of damage or theft—and to a person other than the owner
Energy drinks are popular beverages meant to improve energy, alertness, and concentration. They contain ingredients that aim to boost these mental and physical aspects, such as caffeine, sugar, B vitamins, herbal extracts, and amino acid derivatives like L-taurine. While they can deliver benefits, energy drinks have a number of associated health concerns related to excessive
Key Takeaways A unitized fund pools assets from multiple investors and reports individualized unit values. Unitized stock funds are commonly used in employee benefit plans like ESOPs for managing company stock efficiently. These funds may include cash holdings, causing their unit value to differ from the actual stock price. Insurance companies use unitized structures to
What is a Unitized Fund A unitized fund is a type of investment fund structure that uses pooled money to invest with individually reported unit values for investors. Assets in the pool are managed to a specific objective, often with concentration in one stock. Investors are provided with a daily unitized value for their portion of the
Container technology, also simply known as just a container, is a method to package an application so it can be run, with its dependencies, isolated from other processes. The major public cloud computing providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform have embraced container technology, with container software having names including the
In the story of technology, where do you begin? In my new book, co-written with Julien de Salaberry, called Living in the Age of the Jerk, we go back in time, way back. But for the sake of this article, I begin the story of key events in technology with Charles Babbage — who designed
Prior to the global financial crisis, most savers had never considered the idea that their money might not be safe in a bank. That might also apply to brokerage accounts, where the system of using nominee accounts should leave client assets untouched in the event of a broker failure. However, some recent broker failures have
All manner of technology surrounds us. From our personal laptops, tablets, and phones to behind-the-scenes technology that furthers medicine, science, and education. Technology is here to stay, but it’s always morphing and expanding. As each new technology enters the scene, it has the potential to improve lives. But, in some cases, it also has the
Tax is complex enough at the best of times but its intricacies are exacerbated among high earners Taxation is a crucial factor when managing the finances of high-income clients. It is a complicated area, made even trickier by the fact there are many different variables that can affect the amount of tax owed. The standard