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Many people in Switzerland leave their money in an account and thus miss out on potential returns. Those with financial knowledge, wealth and self-confidence invest more frequently and build up significantly more wealth over the years.

Many people still fall for new forms of network marketing, multi-level marketing (MLMs) and other organisations that, despite their products, strongly resemble pyramid schemes.

In 2024, 953 people nationwide donated one or several organs after their deaths, for roughly 8,600 patients who need one.

Swiss institutional investors are increasingly investing their money in their own country. At the same time, they see increasing regulation as the biggest risk in the Swiss real estate market.

Cybercriminals can obtain stolen data in various ways. Cybercriminologist Renushka Madarie studied the decision-making behavior of offenders who steal data from organizational networks and the trade in stolen data on the web.

Gloomy forecast for the Swiss economy: more than 80 percent of the companies surveyed expect a significant increase in white-collar crime over the next twelve months.

The market for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is growing at an above-average rate and is increasingly shaping the Swiss fund landscape. Since 2021, new money has been flowing into ETFs rather than traditional investment funds. At the same time, Swiss investors' knowledge of ETFs varies greatly, particularly with regard to fees.

Despite efforts, many UK businesses are not on track to meet the United Nation's Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) by their 2030 deadline, finds a new report involving researchers from UCL.

Financial stress is costing Canadian employers nearly $70 billion in lost productivity each year. A new idea introduced by researchers at Canada's Financial Wellness Lab , based at Western, could hold the key to reversing that trend.

Carnegie Mellon researchers are transforming how cities can detect and prevent underground infrastructure failures by using robotics and AI to create high-resolution digital maps of buried pipes. The technology not only helps locate critical plumbing more precisely but also can identify corrosion, leaks and other damage that threatens public safety and the environment earlier.

Supermarket shoppers across the UK are all too familiar with empty shelves when disruption strikes. Whether it was the panic buying of COVID-19, floods affecting deliveries or strikes in distribution centres, the fragility of supply chains has affected most of us in recent years.

A team of researchers has found new ways to make it cheaper - and greener - for small food producers to get their goods to customers. The study, led by Alliance Manchester Business School's Dr Arijit De and published in the Transportation Research journal, looked at how local food hubs can work more efficiently.

Although most of their work is driven by numbers and equations, economists are inherently curious about the peculiarities of human behavior-especially when it comes to the forces that affect buying and selling.

Climate policy Researchers have asked over 400 international experts which climate policies work best.

The book by Gian Luca Di Tanna and Robert Grant is now available, providing practical tools for analysing and summarising evidence.

Storing renewable energy in large batteries to help balance the energy market is technically feasible at large scale across the UK and EU, but it needs to overcome financial challenges affecting its long-term business viability, finds a new study by UCL researchers.