Managers of Wealth

London Calling: The City Holds Its Own as a Listing Venue for Q3

Stories of London’s demise as an IPO venue appear to be greatly exaggerated.

Bloomberg Wealth: Bitcoin’s Future Just Got a Lot Brighter

Its price shot up so fast that at one point, its value increased more than a thousand dollars in a minute.

Operational Resilience: is the UK financial sector ready?

The aim of this regulation is to ensure that the sector is able to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover

Inflation Taxing Bond Investors

Equities returned over 2% on the week, but short-dated bond yields rose nearly 10bps.

Have we passed the peak of supply disruption?

Despite broader UK news flow still very much on the gloomy side, stock markets around the world turned positive for October, and drove diversified investment portfolios back above where they had started the month.

Will COP26 Be a Success? That Depends on 4 Critical Questions.

By encouraging and maximizing additional emissions reductions in all sectors and generating finance for climate adaptation, carbon markets can help address climate change.

Banks With Few Trump Cards Left in War for Talent

They simply hire the best candidates straight out of university.

Institutional investors and wealth managers set to invest in cryptoassets for the first time

The main reason given for investing in digital assets for the first time is the long-term capital growth prospects of cryptocurrencies and digital assets

Capital Group finds ESG hampered by lack of consistency in reporting

Study investigates barriers to ESG adoption

Yacht Ownership – What you should Know

The superyacht industry, which to date has produced a total of 5,325 superyachts in operation around the globe, directly employs approximately 150,000 people worldwide.

How the high-net-worth and mass-affluent will travel in 2022 and beyond

Capitalize on luxury travel trends to increase customer lifetime value.

Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care?

Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash

China’s self-inflicted woes and the renminbi by EFG

To achieve both objectives, it is preferable for the exchange rate to remain stable.

Levels of Digital Maturity: Building a Strategy

This is no surprise as we have been discussing the need to modernize the distribution model within the asset management industry for years.

Review of the week:Tug-of-war by Rathbones

Investors grapple with change as inflation rides higher and economic growth bounces back. Central bankers must come to terms with the new environment as well or risk making bad decisions.

AJ Bell’s Morrissey challenges Baillie Gifford on stake in China blacklist company

Dame Helena Morrissey, incoming chair of stockbroker AJ Bell, calls on Baillie Gifford to explain why its China funds back BGI Group, a genomics company blacklisted by the US for alleged links to China’s repression of the Uyghurs.

Why ESG Investors Need Good Data

Complaints about ESG ratings reflect "maturing, robust" industry, Sustainalytics founder Michael Jantzi says, adding that ratings diversity is a sign of a healthy market

HNWs 'anxious' about their wealth

The results make up the new Saltus Wealth Index, which launched this October.

A new study finds that dirty money remains easy to hide

Banks and corporate-service providers barely differentiate between clean and risky clients

The intrinsic value of NFTs

In this series the Stonehage Fleming Art Management (SFAM) team catches up with some of the top players in the field.

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