Welcome to Business in Vancouver’s new feature, What are we reading? Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Anna Liczmanska, editorial researcher:
Why the world of advertising is in the process of reinventing itself. Media Insider
Emma Crawford Hampel, online editor:
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is 103 years old. How can it keep up with the need to monitor Facebook and Google? The Washington Post
Glen Korstrom, reporter:
This CIBC report released May 7 assesses the future value of the cannabis market in Canada and attempts to determine who will be the financial winners. (Spoiler alert: provincial governments to generate a windfall but private sector does well too, particularly for growers.) CIBC
https://www.investorvillage.com/uploads/82915/files/CIBC_Cannabis.pdf
Hayley Woodin, reporter:
The May 2018 letter from the president of the Investment Industry Association of Canada describes the technology whirlwind blowing through the wealth management business, and the impact that has had on Canadian firms. Investment Industry Association of Canada
https://iiac.ca/wp-content/uploads/IIAC-Letter-from-the-President-Vol-117.pdf
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:
The shipping industry is a notorious polluter. Is a zero-carbon goal achievable by 2035? International Transport Forum’s Decarbonizing Maritime Transportation report:
https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/decarbonising-maritime-transport.pdf
Tyler Orton, reporter:
The brilliant business lesson behind the emails Jeff Bezos sends to his Amazon executives with a single ‘?’ CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/why-jeff-bezos-still-reads-the-emails-amazon-customers-send-him.html
Albert Van Santvoort, reporter:
Yesterday, Moody's maintained British Columbia's Aaa credit rating What are are the actual implications of a province's credit rating and how much is it bolstered by the federal government? Alberta economist Trever Tombe explains how credit ratings affect the cost of debt and why downgrades cross provincial boarders in his 2015 piece, "Making sense of provincial debt downgrades.” BIV, Maclean’s
https://biv.com/article/2018/05/moodys-affirms-bcs-aaa-credit-rating
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/making-sense-of-provincial-debt-downgrades/
