Future of Banking: Comment by Patrick Dixon on how millions were lost in Icelandic bank accounts and lessons to learn about how to make money and how to avoid heavy losses. Rates of return on investments. Assessing risks in fund management and real estate investment. Exchange rate risks and how they impact international investment. Economy risks, political risks, industry risks - all need to be priced into decisions about where to put your money. How to make money and increase your wealth. Portfolio management. What economists think about global risks, banks, banking, insurance and other industry investments.

Future of insurance companies and hedge funds following credit crunch and stock market crash.

Many articles, videos and keynote presentations on the future of the insurance industry.

Future of banking after 2008 credit crunch, and global collapse of financial markets. Nationalisation, capital injection, debt swaps.

What banking look like after crisis and global economic chaos. Future of retail banking, corporate banking, wholesale banking and investment banking. Expect further consolidation, staff losses, more transparency and cautious lending - for a while. Highly complex global finance will offer new opportunities for talented bankers. Regulators and risk managers will struggle to catch up.

Irrational markets and strange investment decisions. How markets are driven by emotion rather than logic. Implications for collapse of confidence in banking and government The trouble is that it is easy to make intelligent people seem ridiculous with hindsight - question is what decisions are being made today which will seem as absurd in a few years time. 

Post by Patrick Dixon / video made by BBC- both in 2008 - very perceptive.