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Author: Astrid F. Kowlessar

Issues and Remedies for Our Efficiently Broken Supply Chain

We currently subsist in a world that is built on a ‘new normal.’ And this new normal is fraught with...

Cyber Protection of US Critical Infrastructure

 Our previous blog US Critical National Infrastructure… examined physical attacks on the US utility sector and technologies that may be...

US Health Care and Health Tech Innovation

On March 28, 2019 District of Columbia’s Judge John Bates made a decision to dismiss the US Labor Department’s association...

Blockchain: U.S Regulation and Governance.

Blockchain technology is far more than a buzzword. Dubbed “the Internet 3.0”, this distributed ledger technology known best as the...

The Systemic FinTech Revolution

Fiscal 2018 has been a momentous year for US financial technology (FinTech) organizations. On July 31, 2018, the Office of...

Emerging Markets Infrastructure Project Investment: Issues and Opportunities

Global investment in real estate and infrastructure projects are on the rise. Preqin’s 2018 Infrastructure Fund Manager Outlook notes that...

Family office growth and governance

Family offices are powerful, a financial force to contend with. Even many in the financial world have yet to understand...

The Looming Public Pension Fund Crisis

The United States’ public pension funds are in a terrible predicament. As of August 2017, Bloomberg reported that 43 out...

The FATCA Debacle Requires Repeal

In April 2017, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) finally brought efforts to repeal the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)...

The Financial Power of Impact Investing

For many years the divide between instruments of philanthropy and investing has been clear cut. Investing strategies typically did not...