05/19/2022
Market Insight
Declining US housing starts, surging UK inflation
Comment & Analysis
05/19/2022
Château d’Yquem: When it comes to sweet wines, this is the ultimate
When it comes to sweet wines, Château d’Yquem remains the ultimate honey trap, writes Jonathan Ray
05/19/2022
Fitch Downgrades Credit Suisse Group to 'BBB+'; Stable Outlook
The downgrade reflects Fitch's view that Credit Suisse's weak operating profitability compared with peers' highlights the execution risk during the group's restructuring
05/19/2022
The practice of linking pay to ESG is already widespread
The momentum towards integrating ESG into reward strategy seems unstoppable.
05/19/2022
Zombie financing
Charlton Heston and our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs have little in common. But they both hate the walking dead.
05/19/2022
The end of free money
The financial world is in the midst of a painful and unfamiliar transition.
05/18/2022
US inflation: Past the peak, but then what?
Also core inflation, which excludes energy and food, fell to 6.2%.
05/18/2022
Wealthy Donors Are Adjusting Philanthropy Plans
The majority of the 200 respondents (160) reported assets of between $5 million and $24.9 million.
05/18/2022
The Dwindling Private Banker Count
At its peak in 2018, Julius Baer could count on 1,051 bankers. Now, three years later, about one in six of them are gone.
05/18/2022
Are you reinvention ready?
Managing for sustained outcomes and building trust in periods of dislocation
05/18/2022
The best countries for hiding wealth
President Joe Biden has made transparency reforms a key pillar of his foreign policy, vowing to tackle tax evasion and money laundering.
05/18/2022
Seven questions to ask before buying a property
The most common way to make a property purchase is to take out a mortgage loan.
05/17/2022
Quant chart: Value accelerates to strongest start in decades
2022 marks the best start to a year in our sample period of just over 35 years
05/17/2022
Number of Irish wealthy individuals set to surge
Ireland is among 10 countries forecast to see the largest proportional increase in their extremely rich populations between now and 2026
05/16/2022
Horror Story
“Childs: Temperature's up all over the camp. Won't last long though. MacReady: Neither will we. Childs: How will we make it? MacReady: Maybe we shouldn't.” - Dialogue from John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).
05/16/2022
Questionable Positives by Gary Dugan
On both occasions, the market eventually fell 50% before rebounding.
05/15/2022
Wealth managers expect asset management industry to hit $2 trillion faster than expected
Research from Oxford Risk predicts a push from international financial institutions to expand in the region
05/13/2022
Designing the New Workplace Model
A common thread throughout our panel discussion was change. Whatever your organization experienced during the pandemic, change was constant.
05/13/2022
Inflationary Concerns
In the meanwhile, oil prices continue to be a pain point for many countries.
05/13/2022
Monthly Update: Financial Markets Still Navigating Volatile Conditions
Financial markets are experiencing further challenges as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, China introduces more lockdowns and investors fret over central bank measures to tame inflation.