03/23/2021
Short-term downside risks for gold - UBP
Finanz und Wirtschaft (20.03.2021) - Gold prices declined in recent weeks to lows of around $1,680 per ounce. The cause was the continued steepening of the US yield curve.
Comment & Analysis
03/23/2021
China’s rising wealth drives shift in growth ambitions
The Covid pandemic meant that China missed its 2015-20 annual GDP target of 6.5%.
03/23/2021
Why Luxembourg for Asian Investment Managers?
Luxembourg’s fund vehicles offer several viable alternatives for the types of structure traditionally used by Asian investment managers.
03/23/2021
How are asset managers and allocators maneuvering in the new normal?
Succession planning speaks more to the human capital aspect of equity-linked compensation for asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms.
03/23/2021
Rising to the Challenge: How Women Can Lift One Another Up in a Rapidly Evolving Workplace
COVID-19 has reversed years of job gains by women in the labor market, which makes offering mentorship and empowerment to women in the workplace all the more important.
03/23/2021
WEEKWATCH by St. James's Place
Forecasters are predicting that higher inflation will return once the economy begins to reopen, raising the prospect of higher interest rates.
03/23/2021
Unexplained wealth orders have not been a complete damp squib
The legal requirements which need to be satisfied before a UWO can be obtained are not straight-forward
03/23/2021
What Keeps Risk Teams Awake at Night? by MAN Institute
If there is anything that keeps our risk teams awake in the middle of the night, it is self-reinforcing events. Could the increase in US Treasury yields be one such event?
03/22/2021
A leadership agenda to take on tomorrow
24th Annual Global CEO Survey - US findings
03/22/2021
Powell Signals “Green for Go” by Gary Dugan
To the concern of equity markets globally, Fed Chair Powell was clear in his message after this week’s Fed policy meeting that there was no prospect of rate hikes this year because it saw no clear inflation risk. For 2022 and 2023
03/22/2021
How technology will impact the wealth management client experience in 2021
The concept of a paperless society was conceived in 1978 by Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
03/21/2021
Insights on the Dynamics Shaping the Structured Products Universe
As with many other parts of the financial services industry, the structured products market has been forced to navigate COVID-19.
03/21/2021
Why Peer Advisory Groups Are the Best Way to Learn and Grow
Rather than write a hardcover brochure titled The Vistage Way, we conducted more than 100 interviews with CEOs and business leaders who were members of all kinds of peer groups, including homegrown ones. We planned to provide specific findings that would
03/21/2021
Like Monty Python’s parrot, are UK equities dead or just resting?
With many investors seemingly ready to write off the UK stock market, we address four common misconceptions about UK shares.
03/21/2021
South Africa’s highest tax rate vs the UK, Dubai, Hong Kong and New York
The most relaxed region, Dubai, allows high-income earners to keep all their pay – while Italy ended up taking the biggest slice at 49%.
03/19/2021
Global Money Week and Debt Awareness Week are a stark reminder of the importance of FinEd
“There are real and serious concerns that this form of FOMO investing is equivalent to gambling and could lead younger people into debt.
03/19/2021
Why UK hospitality could be going local
The change in consumer spending habits could mark a radically different future for the hospitality sector.
03/19/2021
Scottish Mortgage shouldn't suffer from Anderson's retirement given Baillie Gifford's track record
Baillie Gifford have clearly been hugely successful across a number of regional products
03/18/2021
Children of the Revolution by Tim Price
Our preferred comparison, as things currently stand, is with the 1970s, with the economic fallout from the oil crisis
03/18/2021
Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report: Online sales reached record highs in 2020, doubling in value
Global sales of art and antiques were an estimated $50.1 billion in 2020, down 22% on 2019