Managers of Wealth

Current fintech surge to further disrupt traditional bank sector

Banks and other traditional financial services providers were, in most cases, spectacularly caught off guard by the 2008-2009 financial crash.

We are in the midst of a 'total reboot' of wealth management

BMO InvestorLine president writes that, with the industry in the process of massive disruption, now is not the time for firms to be reticent or timid

The Comfort of Diversification

Rightly or wrongly, risk to capital is back on the table, and like 2008, clients want to know how to best spread their risk and achieve the comfort of diversification.

How Can Technology Support A Better Tomorrow: Three Emerging Trends

With Covid-19 changing that way that the world works, the reality is that these shifts will change the future of responsible business practices. Business will have the challenge of adapting to a different world and the implications this will have on susta

Luxembourg government calls on start-ups to innovate in order to overcome the COVID-19 crisis

Project proposals can be submitted from 20 April until 30 April 2020

Investors turn to gold amid market turmoil

This is because, while more paper currency can be made, there is a finite amount of gold in the world.

Chinese Billionaire, Jack Ma Announces Third Set Of Donation To Africa

This announcement was made by Jack Ma on Monday, April 20 via his verified Twitter handle.

Wealth-X Spotlight: The Wealthy in Russia

The country’s two largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, together account for around a third of the wealthy in Russia, with the rest relatively widely dispersed.

Life After Lock-down: Preparing for What’s Next by Justin Urquhart Stewart

The Law of Sod will very clearly ensure that whatever you do predict, will not be the eventual outcome.

History In The Making by Coutts

Mohammad Kamal Syed, head of asset management at Coutts, reflects on markets in 2020 and takes a look at how investment portfolios and funds have performed.

Succession planning through a new lens by Geoff Cook

The lesson here is that succession planning is not seen universally as the be-all and end-all.

Will there be light at the end of the tunnel?

Causing a devastating impact globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a massive strain on the economy but only time will tell on the long-term effects

The coronavirus effect on global economic sentiment

Two-thirds expect a sizable contraction in the world economy, and a record share predict declining company profits.

Expats ask, what happens when my UK mortgage expires during lockdown?

If the COVID -19 pandemic has highlighted one mortgage issue, it might be how to enquire about an expat remortgage during lockdown.

UBS raises its gold price forecast to $1,800

The price of gold in rand rose as much as 1.6 percent to the highest since Bloomberg began tracking in 1971.

Stay home, be productive - Vontobel

“This change is unprecedented,” says Stuart Templeton

With Inflation on the Horizon Smaller Companies Specialist Sees Reasons for Optimism

As fund managers we have lived through various crises, but we will have to dust off the textbooks on inflation!

New book! ‘Guernsey Trust Law’ by Tony Pursall and Matthew Guthrie

Where there is no clear Guernsey authority on a particular point of law it gives a reasoned view, drawing on relevant legal principles, together with a broad assessment of the confidence of which the authors hold that view.

Wealth Management: Market Perspective – We'll meet again: Rothschild

So not only is this the first deliberate downturn - if we stop meeting, we stop working and spending as usual - but it is also the first whose onset and scale are unanimously expected.

Fed policy lays the foundation for gold - UBP

With COVID-19 infections and their associated lockdowns ravaging demand across sectors of the US economy

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