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30 Dec 2025

Key finance concepts: real versus financial assets

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Economics, Key finance concepts | 0

Real assets are the assets that companies seek to acquire, to build and to invest in. Financial assets are the resources that they raise to allow that to happen. The distinction underpins what we call corporate finance – the financing of corporations. * When economists … Continued

15 Mar 2021

The case for bitcoin

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Financial products | 2

People are often surprised when they ask economists, what is money, and the reply is, well, anything that fulfills the functions of money is money: money is as money does. The classic definition of money is anything that is: i) … Continued

Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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