I recently shared a blog post written by my colleague Rob Aspin, CIO of MW Capital Management, MarcWhittaker's asset management firm. In Rob’s summer travels he met up with members of a family which appear to have done a particularly good job with preparing the...
After hearing for several years bits and pieces about the Sumba Hospitality Foundation and the hotel school it was building on the Indonesian island of Sumba, I finally paid enough attention recently to understand and appreciate what a great thing the Foundation has done.[caption id="attachment_15872"...
A friend asked me recently, “Why do so many rich guys start schools?”. My friend is not yet 40, which I was quick to point out to him as likely being the reason he asked the question. In short, founding a school is about legacy....
Last month was Valentine's Day, and this past week my wife and I celebrated our 20th year of marriage. So love has been a recurring theme of late. However, rather than write about romantic love, I've instead picked a topic around the subject of love...
The Phillipines has always been a country I've known very little about. Historically, I guess I'd always associated it with Imelda Marcos, the wife of the country's former dictator (both pictured above), who had so many shoes, until more recently when the country's new president,...