Steven Gooden, president of the Jamaica Securities Dealers Association and CEO of NCB Capital Markets Limited. Steven Gooden, president of the Jamaica Security Dealers Association, JSDA, says that while the Government of Jamaica has been asking for lower interest rates and more flexible financing terms for business, its own regulatory

Published:Friday | February 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM Jamaican pension funds are investing more in equities and less in direct holdings of real estate, the Financial Services Commission, FSC, noted in updates on the market this week. The drift away from government securities also continues, even as pension assets have

Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell (left) and partners in the 2018 staging of the Shaggy Make a Difference concert are delighted as they pose with the replica of the $100 million cheque. The Bustamante Hospital  For Children today received $100 million from the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation, hitting the target which

The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the takeover bid by NCB Financial Group of  the publicly traded Trinidadian insurance company Guardian Holdings. The Commission's chief executive, Haydn Gittens, told the Trinidad Express newspaper that concerns about the transaction were brought to the agency and it is

At a recently held social dinner, it was revealed that many civil servants plan to take the Government's early retirement package plan to use that lump sum to become debt-free. However, when asked how they plan to replace their income as employees, the same respondents said that the monthly pension

Jamaica's “bond king”, Gregory Fisher, in his opening speech at the 12th Jamaican Stock Exchange Conference, quoted approvingly Sandals CEO Adam Stewart. “In 45 years, we have not seen the confluence of events that's taking place right now – inflation at four per cent, unemployment at 11.3 per cent, and

STEFANO Manservisi, director-general for International Cooperation and Development in the European Commission, based in Brussels, is leading a high-level European Union team to Jamaica, starting today. Foreign Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, in a release yesterday, said Manservisi will lead the high-level delegation to Kingston from February 1 to 2

THE Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), in a release yesterday, said that the declining unemployment rate is at 10.4 per cent, the lowest it has been since October 2008. STATIN, the Government's statistics agency, said that the youth unemployment rate of 25.4 per cent was also the lowest since January

Cecil Foster, CEO of FosRich Company Ltd with his members of staff, who are also sisters: Kerry-Ann Gray (right), marketing manager at FosRich and Wendy-Ann Gray, FosRich customer service representative. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) Cecil Foster, CEO of FosRich, the recently listed electricial parts company, is clear that he wants his

Chief executive officer of Pinnacle Insurance Brokers, Mark Neita (right), explains plans to build a second office in Montego Bay by June. Looking on is Manager Norman Laing. (Photo: Michael Gordon) Pinnacle Insurance Brokers plans on expanding its footprint to the Western end of the island. The plans for expansion