Managers of Wealth

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

Major Challenges Ahead - EM and eurozone in focus

Equities should be lower but calling a top in the current recovery is challenging.

Three investment reasons to be cheerful amid the economic upheaval

The uncertain economic landscape is impacting on people’s lives and livelihoods.

China’s Chernobyl by Tim Price

Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away from city center and other densely populated places.

Risk profiling, pricing and value in infrastructure investing (pt.2)

In the latest instalment of Managing Director and chartered surveyor Simon Burgess' overview of infrastructure investing, he examines the factors commonly affecting pricing and value.

Making sense of the bounce by Rathbones

A peak in new cases is just one milestone on a still-uncertain road to recovery

The human touch - doing something a bit different by Penny Lovell

At Sanlam, our focus over the last few weeks has been on protecting wealth and ensuring we are communicating with our clients regularly to provide peace of mind.

Investment Update: Making sense of the bounce

Optimistic investors are pointing to the peak in the daily number of new cases of COVID-19 that appears to have been reached in many hard-hit European countries.

The Anti-Globalization Pandemic

The good news is, this isn’t a foregone conclusion.

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