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Can Outsourcing Certain Business Functions Reduce Costs?

Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity. In this rapidly expanding world of digital tools and internet penetration, it’s rather easy to connect to people all around the world, and this connection also brings along with it many new opportunities. Outsourcing is one of these opportunities that can completely change the way you operate your business. There are various developed nations that have more money but less time, they choose to outsource their work to a developing nation like India or Bangladesh.

The people who are outsourced usually work at a cheaper rate and without restricting you in the traditional way that an employee does. Outsourcing can be an easy-to-use and highly cost-efficient technique that everyone should know about.

If you’ve ever been confused about whether or not to outsource your work, this article will solve all your reservations. We’ll be looking at the various reasons why outsourcing is something everyone should do and how it can lead to significant reductions in costs.

We’ll see how it benefits almost every aspect of your business like payroll management, inventory management, and even data entry. So without any further delay, let’s get to it and find out if outsourcing can actually help you save some money.

1. Higher Efficiency

Usually, when you outsource any job, you give it to a person who is a specialist in their field. This specialist can perform the same job as any other employee much more efficiently and at a lower price, meaning, these people will be able to churn out more work for you in a shorter period of time. Not only will your work be done a lot faster, but its quality will increase as well. It might take you some time to find the right people to hand over each job to, however, once you find that particular person, then you’ll be able to constantly rely on them. It costs less and gets more work done, sounds like a win-win.

2. Cut Training and Recruitment Costs

Perhaps the most ignored benefit of outsourcing that should be known to more people is that outsourcing saves you a lot of money indirectly as well. You can rest assured that you won’t ever have to invest in the training or recruitment of your employees again.

Outsourcing provides you with skilled individuals who are experts in their domains so that you can go without hiring a specialist first and then training them. This tip can save you a significant amount of money, and even the HR guides at this website suggest everyone to save as much money as they can by cutting down on extra expenditures like hiring a specialist. You’ll still need to recruit and train new employees placed under you, but you won’t have to pay for any full-time specialists anymore.

3. Cost-Effective

You’ll still have to spend money on outsourcing your work to a foreign entity, but the greatest benefit is that you need not pay as much as you would in your own country, this applies only if you’re from a first-world country and want to outsource the work to a cheaper country. The amount you spend on outsourcing will be remarkably less, sometimes even differing by as much as 50%. This is all possible due to the global discrepancies in the development levels of countries. However, you need to try to outsource as much of your work as you can because it can clearly save you a substantial sum of money.

4. Best Talent

There’s no employer who doesn’t want a top employee, and the best talent can easily be found while browsing. You can get some of the most experienced and seasoned veterans if you outsource your work. Sure, the employees you hire might be good, but they’ll need some training or higher pay for their expertise. You won’t believe the number of smart and talented people in the developing nations who can provide you their services at a very cheap rate. Compared to hiring people locally, you’ll be able to find much more diversity and talent online.

These are some of the best reasons why you should outsource some aspects of your business, you’ll save yourself a lot of money in the long run. If you look at outsourcing more closely, you’ll be able to find a lot more potential benefits other than the ones listed above. Outsourcing largely depends on the existing disparity among the nations. If you’re from a developed and more prosperous nation, you’ll be able to get a lot more done for the same price that you’ve always been paying for.

Active Company Tagging Identities in India

A new rule 25A has been inserted in the Principal Rules pertaining to Active Company Tagging Identities. Additionally, e-form ACTIVE has been inserted in the Principal Rules after e-form INC -22.

The Rules came into effect from February 25, 2019. Every company incorporated on or before December 31, 2017 is required to file the particulars of the company and its registered office with the MCA in e-form ACTIVE on or before April 25, 2019.

The e-form ACTIVE is majorly a pre-filled form where the details of a company as available with the MCA gets populated automatically based on the filings made by the company with the Registrar of Companies. Therefore, a company first needs to ensure that all its filings with the MCA are complete and proper only then the e-form ACTIVE can be duly submitted.

In fact, any company which has not filed its financial statement or the annual return or both would not be able to file the e-form ACTIVE unless such company is under management dispute and the Registrar of Companies within whose jurisdiction the registered office of a company is situated has recorded the same on the register.

The objective of MCA is to geo-tag the registered office details of companies through the latitude and longitude details which means attaching data to the exact location of the office.

Basis the concerns raised by the users, MCA is looking into it and coming up with appropriate solutions to resolve these issues so that the filings can be done smoothly.

Since the financial year 2017-18, there has been a drive to crackdown the shell companies and the companies that are non-compliant. Initially, MCA struck off from the register of Registrar of Companies, those companies which defaulted in annual filing for a continuous period of two or more financial years. This was followed by the disqualification of directors of defaulting companies.

Subsequently, the individuals who had been allotted director identification number in India, were required to provide details and complete their KYC with the MCA.

In a similar manner, the registered office of a company is meant to be the premises where its statutory records and registers are maintained as well as its recorded address where the government authorities or any other stakeholders can communicate.

Whereas as per the trend noticed in past investigations into shell companies, either the exact address of the registered office of a company does not exist or there are too many companies registered on the same address. There is no doubt that e-form ACTIVE will help the MCA to locate the exact location of a registered office and to a great extent, it will help in depreciating the use of false addresses by shell companies.

The expected outcome of these initiatives is to create a transparent and compliant India Inc. and to make it trustworthy for public as well as to the global market.

Staying in The Technology Race and Avoiding Pitfalls

Technology is the continually developing result of accumulated knowledge and application in all techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in industrial production and scientific research.

It is vital for law firms and in house counsel that they are at the forefront when advising on the specifics and legalities of the technology supply chain, which increasingly relies on mining raw materials for use within the manufacturing process of ‘smart’ products. However, an acute awareness of the barriers is also essential.

Given the increase in protectionist policies, and the inherent link that exists between these and mining essential raw materials, it has never been more important that in house teams work closely with their advisers to anticipate market changes and implement strategies to manoeuvre through what can be difficult events and circumstances.

What is becoming evident, as set out in the report, is that there is a startling correlation between countries that pursue digitally protectionist policies as well those that are protectionist in relation to their natural resources – in particular China, Russia, India, Vietnam, Argentina and Turkey – six key global players in both areas of the economy.

Given that countries like these are the very same which house the essential raw materials that need to be mined to fuel the development of technology, it is crucial to understand how to anticipate the impact of such behaviour on the technology supply chain.

General Counsel could be forgiven for focusing more on the operational and trading aspects relating to the existing uncertainty surrounding Brexit and global trade – and simply seeing digital protectionism as a side-line issue to focus on at a later date.

This would be a mistake, given that these measures pose as much a threat to international trade and development as the more traditional tools of trade protectionism that seem to be most in focus at present.

Not only do the identified countries above have a strong track record in imposing trade barriers and tariffs on imports, they also have a high number of restrictive data laws and large deposits of the vital raw materials needed to make smartphones, connected devices and batteries for electric vehicles.

While this is happening in real time, many technology focused brands – focused on the manufacturing side of the industry – may not yet have anticipated how this will affect their sourcing and subsequent supply chain partners and processes.

This makes it even more important that General Counsel communicate the effect of this on the output of their businesses in order to assist internal relationships or indeed, using the foresight of their selected legal advisers.

AZB & Partners Mumbai Promotes Hufriz Wadia and Suharsh Sinha

AZB & Partners has promoted banking counsel Hufriz Wadia and insolvency consultant Suharsh Sinha as partners in its Mumbai office.

The 2002 KC Law College graduate had worked in Dubai as a banking lawyer at law firm Al Tamimi & Co for five years, before returning to India, joining Juris Corp in Chennai. In January 2014, she had joined Kochhar in Chennai.

Sinha has been with AZB & Partners as a consultant since September 2016, having joined from the Reserve Bank of India and the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee, for both of which he’d been working as a consultant for a year.

The NLSIU Bangalore graduate, who also holds a masters in in law and finance from Oxford University, an Wharton Business and Law LLM from the University of Pennsylvania, and has completed an Indian School of bridge programme in business.

Between 2008 and 2009, he had worked at McKinsey & Co as a business analyst, followed by more than five years at Linklaters in London until 2014.

Their promotions took effect on 1 October 2018.

In April, AZB & Partners Delhi partnership promoted five to partner, while in March 2018, AZB Mumbai promoted a total of four.

AZB & Partners Overview:

AZB & Partners was officially founded in 2004. In recalling the years prior to its formation, what emerges is a passion for excellence married to an unshakeable trust in each other and the partnership. What drove its founders then, still holds true today.

BPCL Selects AspenTech Software for Operational Award

An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, a Fortune 500 energy company is headquartered in Mumbai. It is a public sector undertaking and last year, the Government of India conferred BPCL with Maharatna status. The company operates through two segments: Downstream petroleum, and Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons.

The company’s refineries are located at: Mumbai, Kochi, Numaligarh, and Bina. Its marketing infrastructure includes network of installations, depots, retail outlets, aviation service stations, and LPG distributors.

The oil and gas sector faces an increasingly complex environment, companies need to be innovative in adopting new business models and partnerships. Leading players, such as BPCL, need to have a resilient strategy to protect against price dips and adopt digital transformation in an astute manner to improve operational performance.

Considering all these factors, BPCL began scouting for a one-stop solution provider that could help drive business sustainability and increase profitability by maximising asset performance across BPCL Group Refineries. Earlier on, BPCL had also deployed AspenTech solutions in pursuit of energy management and asset optimisation at their Mumbai refinery. Following a successful deployment, BPCL proceeded to standardise on AspenTech software solutions.

The solutions include Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining; Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating; Aspen Economic Evaluation; Aspen Energy Analyser; Aspen DMC3; Aspen InfoPlus.21; aspenONE Process Explorer; Aspen PIMS-AO; Aspen Supply Chain Planner; Aspen Tank and Operations Manager; and Aspen Operations Reconciliation and Accounting.

With aspenONE software, organisations can run to the limits of performance and achieve optimal financial return over the entire asset lifecycle without compromising safety, reliability or regulatory compliance. In partnering with AspenTech, BPCL can capitalise on digital transformation to reduce costs, maximise growth and achieve sustainable operations via operational excellence. With this deployment, BPCL is well positioned to support energy needs and emissions standards in India.

Centralised control and a single point of contact and accountability will help the company to achieve operational excellence and gain competitive advantage. AspenTech’s integrated solutions across design and operations will help BPCL maximise profitability, increase return on capital, and improve complex manufacturing and operating scenarios.

Exploding the Myth of Patent Law Tardiness

A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.

The Indian IP system is continuously being criticised in the global media and in the IP world as being slow to grant/ register IP rights; to some extent even the local IP counsels and professionals add fuel to this In various platforms it has often been stated that the delay in the grant of patents in India is often a deal breaker for a lot of companies.

This is the image that has been created and the purpose of this article is to clear the fog and provide a clear picture. In the past few years, particularly after the digitising process, the Indian IP office is one of the more sophisticated IP offices in the world. It is among the few IP offices in the world which offers 100% digitisation of every process including video conferencing of hearings. Furthermore, one of the attributes of Indian IP offices is that the filing for registration of a trade mark, copyright, patent and design applications, can be done 24×7 on any day of the week. In order to improve efficiency there are four autonomous Patent Offices and five Trade Mark Registries in India which are exclusive in itself. The best talents are being hired by the Patent and Trade Mark offices for the examination process and I have had the unique privilege to train some of these talented individuals. There have been recent discussions regarding lackadaisical working of the Indian IP offices but I would like to throw light on the Indian IP offices expediting the internal examination process for speedy grant/registration of IP rights.

A Patent Application was filed on 15thNovember, 2016 for “A Process for Preparation of Quinophthalone” bearing application No. 201621038962. An application for expedited examination of the patent application was filed on 27th May, 2017. After the substantial examination of the application, the first examination report was issued, the response to which was filed by us promptly. The Application straight forward proceeded to grant and on 8th December i.e. the patent was granted in less than 13 months from the date of filing. This clearly debunks the myth that grant of patents in India are delayed. It is necessary to note that one of the major reasons for the patent application moving forward were the well drafted patent claims, the proper representation of invention disclosed therein and a quick and proper response to the Examination Report. Therefore, if the inventors and their consultants also ensure that their drafts unequivocally disclose the invention in the application, draft comprehensible claims, submit a proper response to the Examination Report issued by the Examiner there is a high possibility of the patent application being granted by the Controller in a year.

The Indian Patent Office, in recent times has ramped up its activities for instance; it has hired more patent examiners, is providing notifications regarding any formal defects in the application/patent compliance via e-mail to applicant of patent applications, patentees and patent agents and expediting the examination process of patent applications etc.

Furthermore, it is interesting to note that apart from the Patent Applications even Trade Mark applications have started moving forward expeditiously. For example we filed trade mark application No. 3496744 for the mark ‘Apodis’, in class 43, in March 2017 and the same was granted registration in September, 2017 i.e. within 6-7 months the trade mark was registered. This time period includes the 4 months statutory period of publication of the trade mark in the journal which allows third parties to file an opposition if the advertised trade mark is similar to their trade mark. We had taken care of all the formalities such as conducting a thorough search for the trade mark, filing the form of authorisation, submitting services specification approved by the Indian Trade Marks Office, to ensure a speedy grant of the registration.

Similarly, the Designs office has also in recent times granted Design registrations within a period of 2-3 months if the application is in order, for instance we filed Design No. 294922 for floor cloth on 21st June, 2017 and the certificate of registration for the same was issued on 25th August, 2017. Therefore, within a period of 2 months we were successful in obtaining design registration for our client.

It is fair to state that the Indian IP offices are adhering to the time lines specified in the respective statutes, which is a step in the positive direction and should encourage more Universities, individuals, Start-Ups, Corporates to file patent and trade mark applications in India. It is necessary in such times to give credit to the patent and trade mark Examiners when it’s due. This will also help in boosting the confidence of the individuals involved in the process as well and dispel the myth of tardiness that surrounds the Indian IP scene.


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Next Generation 911 Media & Your Telecommunicators’ Mental Health

Richard Buck, Kathy Boucher, Patrick Clark, Johnathan Danek, Lori Lagrone, Tameka Minter, Raymond Schultz , Adair Welfel

Apr 19, 2022|Research Posters

Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is the newest technology allowing the general public to share richer, more detailed data, such as videos, images, and text messages with a 9-1-1 call center. NG9-1-1 enhances the ability of 9-1-1 call centers to better communicate with each other and improves overall system resiliency, however, what are the adverse effects of this technology on our telecommunicators’ mental wellbeing?

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The Power of Storytelling with Ricardo Martinez II

AEDR Editorial Team

Aug 31, 2021|Dispatch in Depth

Ricardo Martinez II, host and creator of the Within The Trenches podcast, discusses how Within the Trenches got started, how it’s grown since then, and what it means to emergency dispatchers to have a platform where they can share their stories and connect with their colleagues across continents. For Your Information: Listen to Within the Trenches here (or wherever you get your podcasts):

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Falls Protocol Lift Assist Calls: Predictors of Repeat 911 Calls

Lee Van Vleet, Marty Gray, BS, EMD-Q, Dawn Faudere, EMT-P, EMD-Q, Daniel Ashwood, PhD, Alissa Wheeler, BA, Christopher Olola, PhD

Oct 01, 2020|AEDR 2020 Vol. 8 Issue 2|Original Research

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) regularly respond to lift assist calls. Previous studies have shown lift assist calls present a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. This group of callers is also likely to make repeated calls to 911 for EMS assistance. The ability to foresee which of these patients may need to call 911 again within 24 hours could help decrease the risk posed to patients in these situations. To describe calls originating as lift assist calls with repeat calls within 24 hours, explore the...

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Impact of Work-Related Factors on Stress and Health among 911 Calltakers and Dispatchers in California

Kimberly D. Turner, MPA, ENP, Michele Lilly, Ana M. Gamez, PhD, MBA, Kassandra Kressler, MA

Apr 09, 2019|AEDR 2019 Vol. 7 Issue 1|Original Research

Empirical literature examining the health and wellness of emergency responders has continued to grow over the past decade. Yet there is a relative absence of literature on 911 telecommunicators, who are often the "first, first responders" in an emergency. Examination of work-related factors that enhance risk for stress and adverse outcomes may improve current prevention and intervention efforts in this population. Civilian 911 calltakers and dispatchers from the state of California (N = 833) participated in an online study to...

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9-1-1: What's our emergency? Diagnosing a struggling occupation serving a neglected system: a systematic literature review

Kevin P Haight, M.A.

Jan 20, 2021|AEDR 2020 Vol. 8 Issue 3|Original Research

In 2019, of all of U.S. states/territories, only twelve require the Emergency Communications Officer (ECO) to meet hiring (character) standards, only twenty-nine require basic training standards, only twenty-three require continuing-education standards, and only twenty-four require use of pre-arrival medical instruction protocols. Furthermore, the federal government misclassifies the profession within its Office and Administrative Support occupational grouping, as opposed to the Protective Service occupational grouping. There is substantial evidence of 9-1-1 failures in...

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The 5 Steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM

Rewiring Your Brain For Wealth Creation

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Wealth Creation is really a frame of mind, everything begins with a distinctive frame of mind. You are actually reading this article, and that is not an accident.

The 5 Steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM is purpose driven plan for focused minded entrepreneurs. There isn’t any accident, every thing occur in your life based on your action or inaction for an important intent.

Therefore you make your personal down to earth future with your unlimited God-given capacity to achieve and get anything you like or even desire to be.

I’m concentrating particularly right here on the 5 steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM, along with what you must do to be able to accomplish this objective in your own life.

Listed below are the five actions to wealth creation and prosperity based on the 5 steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM.

1. Creating the Actual Billionaire Mind Set:

You ‘must’ have the capability to observe something prior to it becoming physically real. That’s a way of telling somebody to activate their belief or have vision. Another way of describing the 5 steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM is to have vision and faith.

Vision and faith are definitely the capability to observe something in advance of it becoming actual.

Many people have been operating in lower income and living in lack due to the tales they had been presented as youngsters. Using these tales these people create a self belief program.

Some people belief system includes an unfavorable mindset towards money. The 5 Steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM is design to create wealth and make your life monetarily self-sufficient, you need to create a wholesome mindset toward making money and lots of it.

You need to view money like a very good and essential asset in your own life. You need to wear another set of eye glass and take a look at wealth from a different angle.

Put simply, the 5 steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM helps you to rearrange your mind.

If you are intending to be involved in wealth creation and plenty of it, you need to think just like a billionaire, observe your self like a wealthy gentleman or a wealthy lady.

The 5 Steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM will drive you to think about particular questions such as:

Should I deserve to be rich?
Should I enjoy the lifestyle of my personal desire?
Can funds really make a difference in the way I live and connect with other people?

Think about the issue whether it is the desire of The Almighty that you ought to live the plentiful lifestyle? If you did not know, the Almighty God has given you power to create wealth (Deut. 8:18).

This really is The Lord’s package regarding you…

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. – Jeremiah 29:11

Yes, The Lord would like you to delight in your own success as well…

2. Clean Your Mind With The Winning Attitude:

Brain washing features an unfavorable meaning. However, the 5 Steps Wealth Creation SYSTEM will force us to think successful positive thoughts.

The truth be told, a lot of us require a washing of our brain to assist us create a wholesome, heal and good mindset.

People who dwell on negative thoughts, will find their minds extremely confused and all messed up to slowly destroying us and blocking us from wealth creation and living the lifestyle of our own desire.

Wealth creation requires the best mindset.

Mindset is every thing, that’s what create attitude.

As Paul Meyer says:

Attitude is a habit of thought.

Who you are is a function of specific choices that you have made.

Who you are is not determined by how you look, where you live, or who your parents are. You are where you are and what you are because to the dominating thoughts that occupy your mind.”

Mental attitude and mind set are related.

We are able to alter the path of our own lifestyles by altering the disposition of our own thoughts.

To begin true wealth creation and plenty of it, we need to nourish our thoughts on good quality peak performance and inspiring meals every single day.

To become negative or positive is a preference, but it’s inspired through what we think, which is why we should focus on the idea of mind reprogramming.

Bury your self in good and wholesome thoughts, and concentrate about how you are able to inspire the lives of other people.

You will have the capacity to alter, to be able to accomplish and do just about anything and become nearly anything.

3. Find a good Mentor or a Coach:

The quickest approach to accelerate the whole process of wealth creation is locate your own trainer or mentor or coach.

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Except to state, there’s a difference between a mentor and a coach.

A mentor is somebody who has already been where you would like and ambitious to be and understand what it requires to help you get there in the quickest means.

A coach is somebody who might not exactly encountered the life-style you’re aiming to attain, however, does possess the resources which can train and keep you motivated to get there quicker than operating on your own.

If you wish to begin wealth creation right now, find the best mentor/coach.

4. Make investments in a cash engine:

To get from one location to another, you will need a vehicle. Not merely any sort of engine, you should select the one that includes a properly lubricated, effective and dependable system. A vehicle that journeyed that path previously and understands the situation of the highway.

Wealth creation is to make investments in a programme that is creating earnings and transforming the lifestyles of other people over and over without fail.

Make investments in a program that has trustworthiness and history.

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Wealth Creation indicates doing something about it, but not simply only action, but huge and massive action.

It doesn’t matter how awesome your mind set, how strong your outlook, how smart your trainer, how dependable your programme, if you do not do something, nothing is going to change.

Wealth creation needs to interact with all the links of mind set, outlook, correct guidance in the right programme and performing what is essential to make the unexpected happens.

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DRC's public finances watchdog questioned over $100m probe

DRC's public finances watchdog questioned over $100m probe

Democratic Republic Of Congo

The head of Democratic Republic of Congo’s public finances watchdog was detained for questioning for several hours on Saturday, in what he said was retaliation for investigations by his office into spending by senior government officials.

Sylvain Kasongo, the capital Kinshasa’s police chief, confirmed to Reuters that Inspector General of Finances Victor Batubenga and one of his colleagues had been detained for several hours before being released.

He said the arrests were for “matters of common law”, but declined to elaborate.

Batubenga’s office has been investigating a $100 million line of credit opened in May by the central bank at the instruction of the interim economy minister to reimburse fuel distributors, according to a report his office issued in July.

It was also ordered by the National Intelligence Agency last month to audit spending by the interim government in place since President Felix Tshisekedi’s inauguration in January.

Since taking office, Tshisekedi has promised to clean up corruption which he said proliferated during his predecessor Joseph Kabila’s 18-year tenure.

Civil society groups, however, have accused his administration of profligate spending, charges he has denied.

In an interview with Radio France Internationale, Batubenga said that after he and a colleague were arrested by the police, he was held by an aide to Tshisekedi’s national security advisor, Francois Beya.

“The aide (to Beya) … said my work was causing problems,” Batubenga said. He said the aide also made threats against him and his family. Neither Beya nor Tshisekedi’s spokesman could be immediately reached for comment.

The interim cabinet consists largely of holdovers from Kabila’s final government. New ministers were finally named last week and are expected to be sworn in this week.

The report by Batubenga’s auditors in July found that interim Economy Minister Henri Yav had ordered 15% of the $100 million line of credit to be paid into a bank account controlled by the government committee that monitors fuel prices.

It said that money “did not benefit the state” and called on the government to explain how the money was used. Yav was not immediately available for comment.

The intelligence agency’s order last month said the audit of government spending since January was required “for urgent reasons of state security”, without elaborating.

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Talking About Guns and Gun Control

Talking About Guns and Gun Control

When I was in college I had my first sales job. I learned several life lessons during that time, but also some communication techniques that have served me to this day.

If you’ve read my journey into the firearms community, then you know I was a fervent anti-gunner. When I became a gun owner, I ventured “over the mountain” to a community that is largely misunderstood by “the other side.” Critics have said that this type of language divides our country into two camps: us vs. them. I argue that there *are* two camps: (1) those who see guns as tools for the users’ intents and (2) those who see guns as killing machines, and the chasm between them is only getting wider.

Here are 3 tips that can help both sides to communicate graciously and find common ground.

Tip #1: Understand the Values

Both sides comprise smart, educated people that use statistics that support their paradigms. The crux of the issue is that the anti-gun view is that everyone should give up rights (like we do with speed limits, Sudafed, and such) for the greater good in order to protect even one life from a firearm-related death. Restrictions may make it so that Bad Guy cannot get a gun, walk into a building, and shoot scores of people. Anti-gun people believe that restrictions will save lives.

The pro-gun view is that law-abiding citizens have the constitutional right to firearms, and restrictions take rights away from the good guys only because bad guys will circumvent the law. This creates an uneven playing field and a less safe society. Bad Guy will circumvent restrictions to get a gun, truck, knife, or whatever he needs to carry out his plan. Good Guy is armed, trained, and has the mindset to stop Bad Guy if he endangers people. Pro-gun people believe armed civilians will save lives.

When you understand that both groups are motivated to save lives, then we can create common ground for dialogue.

Tip #2: Use the Feel, Felt, Found Method

This is my favorite communication technique and I use it all the time. If you’re speaking to someone who supports gun control, try the Feel, Felt, Found Method.

“I know how you feel.”
This wording lets your colleague know that you heard him or her and can relate. This is also referred to as establishing empathy, demonstrating understanding, or acknowledging their concern. You may not agree with the position, but you can agree that any loss of life is terrible. You value saving lives, too. It is sad that tragedies occur.

“I felt the same way.” or “My friend felt the same way.”
This statement says two things: (1) You’re not alone; and (2) Your views can change. This is an important phrase because you’re showing respect for the person. This is where many gun owners lose the conversation because they would rather say that you’re uneducated or an idiot or wrong, which immediately makes a colleague go on the defensive and widens the communication gap again.

“But I found that….”
This statement lets them know that others have changed their minds and are very happy with the outcome. Help your colleague see that his or her fears are unfounded. In fact, the actual outcome of learning to be an armed citizen had a positive result for you or your friend.

Tip #3: End with an Invitation

After you reassure your colleague that you’re not going to insult him or her, then you can offer facts and extend an invitation to learn more about your position. When you put it all together, it can look like this:

“Assault rifles should be on the battlefield not on our streets.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way for many years, but I found that an AR-15 is not a military-grade weapon. You’re thinking of the M-16, which is a different rifle. The AR-15, rather, is a civilian rifle that is semi-automatic, which means that you pull the trigger 1x for every 1 bullet that comes out. They are really popular for hunting and home defense. I choose ammo that dissipates its energy upon impact, so I can be sure to save my children’s lives from an intruder, and also not endanger those in adjacent homes. I also need an AR-15 for my sport because it’s required for competition in 2-gun and 3-gun matches. It’s lightweight and can be easily customized for safety — it’s the most popular rifle in the world. Would you like to shoot mine?  It’s really fun to shoot and I’d love to help you learn more.

“We need more laws to make it harder for people to get guns.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way, but I found that laws only work if people obey them. Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp was with her parents in Luby’s in Killeen, TX, when a man drove his truck into the building and shot people, including her parents. She had a handgun, but left it in her car because laws at the time didn’t permit purse carry. She says blaming the man is like blaming a rabid dog, but she blames Congress for taking her right to self-protection away from her. The man wasn’t sane and he used his truck and his gun to kill, but because she followed the law *she* was the one who was unarmed. If she had her gun she would have saved many lives. Is there a gun control law that would have protected her? What would you do to protect your life in that situation? Have you ever shot a gun before? Would you like me to teach you?

“This type of violence doesn’t occur in other countries.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way because everyone talks about incidents when they happen here. I found that some of the most violent nations on earth don’t keep or publish homicide statistics because of international relations or reliance on tourism, therefore we can only compare countries that provide data. Unfortunately the data is often incomplete because mass shooting reports don’t include acts with firearms that are considered terrorism, such as the attack in Paris on Charlie Hebdo, or mass homicides without firearms (using knives, vehicles, or bombs). For example, U.S. has had the most incidents of mass shootings, but Norway, Finland, and Switzerland have higher mass shooting fatalities per capita. According to the UN, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela have the highest intentional homicide rates, 1400% higher than the U.S. How can we save lives from all types of violence?

“Anybody can just go to a gun show and walk out with a gun. Congress needs to close this loophole.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way until I went to a gun show. I found that all dealers at gun shows do fill out a Form 4473 and run background checks for all sales. There are two problems: (1) the 4473 asks if you are a felon or prohibited from making the purchase so that the dealer can deny the sale, but Bad Guys lie; and (2) the safety net is to find his name in the NICS system and then deny the sale, but 38 states submit less than 80% of their felony convictions to the database for background checks, so more than 7,000,000 felons aren’t in the system. Congress can save lives by providing funding or staffing or whatever it takes to make sure the background check database is comprehensive, so felons can’t pass background checks and can’t buy firearms at gun shows or any gun store. Do you want to go to the next gun show with me so you can check it out yourself?

“We need universal background checks.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way because we need to keep guns out of the hands of evil people. But I found that the background check system is flawed and discriminatory. Unlike an employment background check that searches by social security number and unique identifiers, the NICS system pulls data based on first name/last name. This creates so many false positives and results in a discriminatory and unreliable system. For example, if a women is trying to legally purchase a firearm for protection, but has a name similar to someone in the system, especially if it is a common name to her culture, she will be wrongly denied and will have to submit appeals. Further, a background check in Washington DC costs $125 per firearm. That’s not fair for the single mom trying to protect her children. Do you want to look into this with me?

“I’d never have a gun in my home with my children.”
I know how you feel. I felt the same way, but I found that it empowers me to protect my family.  I joined A Girl & A Gun and discovered a ton of information and training. I learned what safe storage to use and how to talk to my kids about guns. I learned that the NRA has a great program called Eddie Eagle that teaches kids to run away and tell an adult if they see a gun. These safety programs aim to save my kids’ lives and their friends’ lives, too. Plus, since I’ve been training with other women, I’ve gotten proficient with my gun and we have a family emergency plan so I am much more confident at home. Our next Girl’s Night Out is in a few days — it’s just women meeting at the range to learn more about safety and shooting. Would you like to come with me and check it out?

and so on…

Not every conversation will create change, but conversations can be respectful. Remember that if he or she wasn’t raised with guns, then his or her only perspective is news headlines — constantly barraged by criminal or negligent shootings. Be understanding of this paradigm and gently encourage him or her to learn more about firearms without being demeaning or condescending.

By using the Feel, Felt, Found Method, you can create common ground and validate that they are using their own personal experiences to guide decisions. By offering an invitation, you can provide new experiences and perspectives by inviting them to learn the safety, mechanics, and culture of firearms.

Let this journey move at its own pace and maybe one day they will call you when they are ready to join you at the range. If not, you’ve at least given others the opportunity to experience a welcoming, positive glimpse “over the mountain.”

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  1. It’s amazing how knowledge is enlightening. The more you know about a subject, the more you realize how much more there is to know. I admit, I avoid the topic where I work and just listen to how people feel about it. I very much liked the scenarios with feel, felt, and found communication method.

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UNRWA job cuts in Gaza ‘a massacre for employees’

Gaza employees shocked at UN agency job suspensions, leaving many facing an uncertain future.

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A woman holds a sign reading 'We trust you with our rights, please do not rob them' during a demonstration by UNRWA employees [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

Raffat Abu Hashim was working in his office at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) branch in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, when he received the dreaded email from the staff portal.

His contract will not be renewed when it ends in December.

“I never imagined this would happen to me,” the 53-year-old father of six told Al Jazeera.

“I’ve served in UNRWA for 32 years, when I was hired in January 1987 as an emergency clerk. I’m deeply shocked,” he said, mopping up beads of sweat on his forehead.

Abu Hashim didn’t tell his family – who depend on him as the sole breadwinner – that he was facing impending unemployment.

“I think of them, of my children who are in school and university, and about the loans I owe the bank, and other financial commitments,” he said.

“How can I tell them that I won’t have a job anymore? My work is the backbone in their life.”

Suspension of UNRWA contracts

The US government announced at the beginning of the year it would slash its funding of $365m to $65m, after President Donald Trump accused the Palestinians of being ungrateful for the millions of dollars in aid.

“We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” Trump tweeted, a month after his controversial recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move that led the Palestinian Authority to condemn the US as no longer being an impartial peace broker.

“With the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”

More than half of Gaza’s two million population is dependent on aid from UNRWA, which offered support for seven decades in food supply, healthcare, social services, employment and access to education.

Currently, the blockaded strip suffers from a 44 percent unemployment rate. Last Wednesday, the agency fired a further 113 employees, all because of the United States’ 80 percent budget cut.

Furthermore, UNRWA announced the contracts of 1,000 of its employees in the Gaza Strip – Abu Hashim among them – will not have their contracts renewed. This includes the termination of the mental health programme, which employs 430 people.

More than half of Gaza's two million population is dependent on aid from UNRWA [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]
More than half of Gaza’s two million population is dependent on aid from UNRWA [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]

An open-ended protest has been held since that day at the agency’s headquarters in Gaza City to protest the job cuts.

“This is a massacre against the employees,” Amal al-Batsh, deputy chairman of the UNRWA’S staff union, told Al Jazeera. “The solution to the crisis should not be at the expense of the staff providing services to the tens of thousands of refugees in the Gaza Strip.”

Batsh said the “unjust decisions” will negatively impact all services provided to refugees and badly affect employees and their families, including their psychological state, adding to the deteriorating living conditions in Gaza.

“It’s a political issue rather than a financial one,” Batsh said. “We’ve suggested a number of solutions but they were rejected by the UNRWA administration. This evidence of a threat to the whole refugees’ issue and the presence of UNRWA and its services in the Gaza Strip.”

“We will escalate our protests until UNRWA reverses its decision,” she added.

‘Pain and sadness’

Gaza’s UNRWA employees, who number about 13,000, were stunned upon hearing of the job suspensions, many of whom are the sole providers for their families. One man attempted to set himself on fire outside the headquarters in Gaza City, but was stopped by his colleagues.

Mona al-Qishawi, 52, has worked as a mental health counsellor in a UNRWA medical centre for the past two years in Gaza City, and was among the protesters at the sit-in.

“During the past months, there were assurances from the agency’s administration that they would offer us fixed contracts by January. Instead, we received letters putting us on part-time jobs with half of the salary, before ending our service by December,” she told Al Jazeera.

Qishawi paused, trying to fight back tears. “I’m a widow – my husband died eight years ago. Who is responsible for my six children,” she said. “Two of them are studying in Greece and I have to send them money on a regular basis.

“We live in a rented apartment and I have many other expenses that I can barely cover with a full salary, so how can I deal now with the new job cuts?”

Her colleague Huwaida al-Ghoul heaved a big sigh.

“I can’t express the amount of pain and sadness in my heart,” the 43-year-old told Al Jazeera. “I spent 16 years working and gave my best to my job.”

Ghoul, who has five children, is the main source of income for her family as her husband, who used to work as a labourer in Israel, has been unemployed since the beginning of the second Intifada in 2000.

Huwaida al-Ghoul holds up her medical report during a protest at UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]
Huwaida al-Ghoul holds up her medical report during a protest at UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]

One of her children has asthma and a lung ailment, which has resulted in medical expenses. She is also paying off a bank loan.

“With the new decision, I’m going to be put in prison for not being able to pay for the rest of the loan,” she said, sobbing.

She then took a medical report out of her bag. “Upon hearing the news on Wednesday, I had a breakdown and transferred to hospital.

“I spent the whole day crying at home with my kids around trying to comfort me. How could I tell my six-year-old child that I would not be able to make a living for him anymore?”

Replacing the Palestinian cause

Mohsen Abu Ramadan, an economic analyst in Gaza, said UNRWA launched a new policy that only entrenches the worsening situation in the Gaza Strip, including the 11-year siege, extreme poverty, and high unemployment.

“UNRWA and many international organisations, especially those funded by the US in Gaza, are moving towards one direction, which is to replace the Palestinian cause – an end to the Israeli occupation and siege and the right of return for refugees – with a humanitarian agenda,” Abu Mohsen said.

“It is an attempt to apply the ‘economic peace’ theory instead of the Palestinian national solutions,” he continued.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first called for this policy in the 1990s, Abu Mohsen said, and it is backed by the Trump administration, spearheaded by his special adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s “deal of the century” or Middle East peace plan.

Abu Mohsen explained the Gaza Strip is “the target of economic peace” as it represents the essence of the Palestinian cause, and hence fertile ground to implement Kushner’s plan through the launch of alleged humanitarian projects.

“What is a point of concern is why the UNRWA’s administration chose to implement these desperate decisions, which adapts to the direction of the ‘deal of the century’, instead of resisting it,” he said.

“UNRWA is supposed to make a greater effort to counter the budget cuts by holding more donor conferences, and not choosing to sacrifice its staff and services.”

Raffat Abu Hashim vowed the protests will continue until UNRWA retracts its moves, and to “review these unfair measures against the agency’s staff in Gaza”.

He has not informed his family that he will be out of a job in December, and even assured them his name was not among the 1,000 employees who received the termination letter.

“Is it reasonable for a humanitarian aid agency to treat us this way?” he asked.

Source: Al Jazeera


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Iran denies being hit by US cyberattack

No successful attack has been carried out, although US is making an effort, Iran’s telecommunications minister says.

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Iran telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi [File:Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu]

Iran says that no cyberattack against it has ever succeeded, after US media reported the US launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries.

“The media are asking about the veracity of the alleged cyberattack against Iran. No successful attack has been carried out by them, although they are making a lot of effort,” telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Twitter on Monday without referring to any US attack.

US media on Saturday said Washington launched cyberattacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network this week after Tehran downed a US surveillance drone.

The Washington Post said that after the drone shooting US President Donald Trump authorised US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory cyber attack on Iran.

The attack crippled computers used to control rocket and missile launches but caused no casualties, according to the Post, which cited people allegedly familiar with the matter.

Yahoo cited two former intelligence officials as saying the US targeted a spying group responsible for tracking ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranian telecommunications minister acknowledged that Iran has “been facing cyber terrorism – such as Stuxnet – and unilateralism – such as sanctions”.

The Stuxnet virus, discovered in 2010, is believed to have been engineered by Israel and the US to damage nuclear facilities in Iran.

And Tehran is believed to have stepped up its own cyber capabilities in the face of US efforts to isolate Iran.

“We foiled last year not one attack but 33 million attacks with Dejpha shield,” Jahromi said referring to a new internet defence system.

Tensions between Iran and the United States have been high since Trump last year unilaterally withdrew from the multinational 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

The accord sought to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.

After leaving the accord Trump imposed biting sanctions on Iran to choke off its oil sales and cripple its economy, and his administration is expected to announce more sanctions on Iran later on Monday.

The tensions between Iran and the US were exacerbated in recent weeks after Washington accused Tehran of being behind a series of attacks on tankers in the strategic Gulf.

Iran has denied any involvement.

Source: Al Jazeera, News Agencies


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Muslim gatherings to document survey appeal against Babri Mosque decision

The Muslim gatherings in India will record a survey appeal against the November 9 Supreme Court decision on the Ayodhya contest in which it decided for building a Ram Mandir at the contested site.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will document an audit appeal against the Supreme Court decision on the Ayodhya debate. Maulana Arshad Madani said on Sunday after a gathering of the board that in spite of the fact that they don’t have a lot of expectation, an audit appeal will be recorded.

AIMPLB has likewise chosen to decline the 5-section of land elective plot of land that the Supreme Court has approached the Center to designate for a mosque. AIMPLB said that senior supporter Rajeev Dhawan will advocate the case. “Will document a reexamination request inside 30 days [before December 9]” Zafaryab Jilani said.

“The place where there is the mosque has a place with Allah and under Sharia law, it can’t be given to anyone,” AIMPLB secretary Zafaryab Jilani told columnists after a gathering of the board in New Delhi.

“The board has additionally completely would not take five-section of land in Ayodhya in lieu of the mosque. The board is of the view that there can’t be any option in contrast to the mosque,” Jilani included.

Leaving a gathering of the AIMPLB, Maulana Arshad Madani of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind stated, “In spite of the way that we definitely realize that our survey request will be rejected 100%, we should record an audit appeal. It is our right.”

Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind will document a survey request testing Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment, said Maulana Arshad Madani on Sunday.

This comes after the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) held a meeting to generate new ideas with various Muslim gatherings over the Supreme Court decision in the Ayodhya case to choose whether to go for a survey of the top court’s judgment.

“The gatherings met All India Muslim Personal Law Board general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani and advised him of the Ayodhya issue,” Zafaryab Jilani, who is secretary of the board, said.

They said that the Supreme Court choice is “not justifiable” thus there is a need to go for a survey.

Maulana Arshad Madani said that the Jamiat had affirmed that the Supreme Court decision in the Ayodhya case, in light of proof, will be regarded by it. Maulana Madani, in any case, said the judgment was “past comprehension”.

The court acknowledged that setting symbols in a mosque and destroying it is unlawful. “However, the court gave its ruling for those liable for it,” Maulana Arshad Madani said.

The JUEH president likewise said that the court has acknowledged that the Babri mosque was not worked by wrecking a sanctuary during Babur’s standard.

On November 3, a few office bearers of top Muslim associations, priests and intelligent people from the network held a gathering over the Ayodhya case, and affirmed that the Supreme Court decision ought to be regarded by all.

Settling an irritable issue that returns over a century, the Supreme Court, in its decision in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title case on November 9, said the whole 2.77 sections of land of contested land ought to be given over to the god Ram Lalla, who was one of the three disputants for the situation.

The five-judge Constitution seat likewise guided the Center to apportion a five-section of land plot to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya to assemble a mosque.

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Prior to co-founding Alpha JWC, Jefrey was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Groupon Indonesia, the leading daily deals site in Indonesia where he focused on technology, customer experience and logistics.

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With the majority of VCs losing money, SyndicateRoom CEO Graham Schwikkard asks whether they need a better strategy?

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Graham Schwikkard is CEO of crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom.

I’m a self-confessed data addict. This means I come to venture capital investing from a different perspective than most VCs, who seem to be comfortable making enormous bets based on subjective assessments of the companies they invest in.

Personally, investing in a company based on whether I think it’ll do well in the future fills me with anxiety. But beyond that, this subjective approach to investing doesn’t work well for the majority of VCs.

These two charts illustrate the problem. The startup investment market grows in value consistently at between 23-28 per cent per year.

Source: Syndicate Room

If you were able to invest £10,000 into all of the startups that raised seed or venture funding in 2011, your investment would now be worth around £74,000. And that’s taking into account all the failures (valued at zero), which we all know there are a lot of in startup land.

However, despite strong and consistent growth at a market level, the majority of VCs fail to replicate this performance in their portfolios.

Source: Syndicate Room

Indeed, assuming you’d have the access to invest in all startups (which is a big assumption), you could beat all but the very best VCs simply by picking a large portfolio of investments at random. You’d just need to replicate what was going on in the overall market.

This underperformance versus the market occurs largely due to VCs picking concentrated portfolios of companies they consider to be “winners”. What causes the underperformance?

  1. Small portfolios are naturally more volatile than larger, diversified portfolios, hence the spread in IRR across different VCs.

  2. With very little information to go by when assessing seed-stage investments - and an almost infinite number of random variables affecting the future of a startup - it becomes impossible to forecast the outcome of an investment over a 10-year holding period. So, selection processes designed to pick winners are thinly veiled wishful thinking.

  3. Unlike in public markets, there is no infrastructure or systematic way to access all startup deals in an open market. At best, a VC sees the deals referred to them by their network.

There is no simple way to address the third point, but I will attempt to answer points one and two.

Diversification is a lot more powerful than you think

Let’s go back to our cohort of startups that raised funding in 2011 and pretend we were investing in them when they first started. How many investments should you make? My team and I ran monte carlo simulations looking at portfolios with 10, 20, 30, 40… up to 80 deals.

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Astoundingly - and perhaps contrary to conventional wisdom - the average returns of a portfolio increased with portfolio size while volatility decreased. The reason for increasing returns is quite simple:

  • If 90 per cent of the returns are concentrated in the top 5 per cent of “blockbuster” deals

  • Then the larger the portfolio the greater chance of backing a blockbuster deal

Many VCs would argue that their access to deal flow and selection criteria would beat randomness, but the data, unfortunately, suggest otherwise for all but the VC elite.

Based on that finding, I’d argue that VCs really ought to be making at least 50 investments per year to maximise returns and minimise risk.

Access to deals

The elephant in the room is that my simulations have assumed perfect access to all startup deals, which is not replicable in reality.

So, how can you systematically access the best deals, or at least a sample that is representative of the whole market?

I would argue that it’s not possible to tell at seed stage what the “best” deals look like, but you can certainly identify which investors have a track record of backing them in the past.

Obviously, past performance isn’t a reliable indicator of future results, though finding these “super nodes” in the startup networks might help identify deal flow which is likely to be at least representative of the market. Remember, in this case “average deal flow” still delivers growth of between 23-28 per ent per year and would beat most VCs.

To see how that would work, my team and I looked up on Companies House all the angel investors who were early backers of companies in a well-known list of fast-growing companies. The search identified 573 angels.

We then ran an analysis on each investor’s entire portfolio, applying additional filters including portfolio growth above 28 per cent per year.

This produced a short-list of 93 active angel investors who between them had backed pretty much every recent success story. Investing in all their deals between 2014-18 would have yielded portfolio growth of 42 per cent a year. Fewer than 7 per cent of all VCs achieve those growth rates.

So, I’d argue that if you’re an angel or VC, it’d be worth analysing who in your network is a top-performing investor and try to get in on as many of their deals as you can.

And diversifying across deal flow from lots of top-performers is likely to work even better.

Graham Schwikkard is CEO of crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom.

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The fines come a day after a report found the FAA still needs to do more to hold Boeing accountable after two deadly crashes. The jets were grounded for almost two years.

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