05/11/2022
Asset protection and trusts- How much control will tip the balance?
In most jurisdictions, trust assets will be more vulnerable to attack from a settlor’s creditors
05/11/2022
Why Are We Still Looking for Nazi-Looted Art?
This statement of 11 nonbinding principles was designed to support and encourage each country to make the resources available to aid in the identification and registration of Nazi-looted art.
05/11/2022
What’s even more intriguing is the fact that two members of the committee voted to leave the policy rates unchanged, while three other members were in favour of raising the rates more substantially.
05/11/2022
The decline is most likely the result of the broadly negative trends in the financial markets this year.
05/10/2022
They Don’t’ Know What They are Doing
The equity market has traded sideways after recovering from the precipitous fall in mid- March.
05/10/2022
Especially in times of war and inflation, the question is not whether the markets will correct, but how much.
05/10/2022
The funds are managed in line with five different risk levels so that investors can choose the fund that matches their individual risk profile.
05/09/2022
UBS Investor Sentiment: Investors Concerned About the War Yet Stay the Course with their Portfolios
The survey found business owners tempering their hiring and investment plans and are focusing on increasing their employee benefits, IT spending and upgrading talent.
05/09/2022
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Attributed, probably falsely, to Charles Holland Duell, Commissioner of the US Patent Office from 1898 to 1901.
05/09/2022
With continued growth of client franchises, assets under management reached R$1.04 trillion, increasing 36% y/y
05/09/2022
The Bank of England’s quarter point rise in the UK bank rate was also fully expected. We should though add a little critical commentary on its powers of forecasting.
05/09/2022
The fear among investors is that QT comes too late, leaving the Fed with no choice but to raise rates so quickly that there is no time to observe the economic impact of each hike, with the risk that the economy falls into recession.
05/09/2022
US monetary policy is tightening, sending the greenback higher. This should ease US inflation even as it squeezes the costs of living and doing business for foreign markets.
05/08/2022
The geopolitical risk barometer has risen to a level last seen during the Cuban missile crisis, with Russia stating readiness of their nuclear arsenal.
05/06/2022
The economy may be less robust than Bank of England has concluded, possibly impacting the outlook for further rate hikes.
05/06/2022
He comments: "Just when we all believed we were through the worst of the pandemic's main economic challenges, the investment landscape shifted again.
05/06/2022
The Three Musketeers, whilst immersing himself in study of the masterpieces of Rembrandt.
05/05/2022
Results from the 2021 Natixis Global Survey of Individual Investors reveal how Millennials are changing.
05/05/2022
Clients are also able to invest in commercial real estate and logistics buildings through pooled real estate club deals, attracting over €500m in investment, bringing total private assets to close to €1bn.
05/04/2022
Demographic patterns and changes are a key driver of demand and consumption of goods.