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Alt Investments
8 January 2026

Private Markets Keeping Up Momentum Into 2026 – Aberdeen Investments

Aberdeen Investments has released its "Private Markets House View," showing that private markets...

Banking Crisis
7 January 2026

UBS Sells $3 Billion Of AT1 Bonds – Media

Additional Tier 1 bonds are a form of "bail-in" instrument designed to avoid taxpayers being...

M and A
7 January 2026

Mercer Intensifies Retirement, Investment Focus In Australia

The lift-out deal helps Mercer, it said, concentrate on its "core wealth businesses". ...

Investment Strategies
7 January 2026

Wealth Managers Positive On Emerging Markets, AI, Gold, Defence

After emerging market equities outperformed many developed markets in 2025, led by a broad rally in...

People Moves
7 January 2026

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – DBS, Citigroup

The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in Asia-Pacific wealth management. ...

People Moves
7 January 2026

Standard Chartered Builds Out Private Bank's Greater China, Regional Reach

The newly-appointed figure will grow another team to support Greater China clients, in addition to...

Real Estate
7 January 2026

The Changing Map Of Cross-Border Capital Flows Into UK Commercial Real Estate

How Asian and Middle Eastern capital has shifted post-Covid and post-Brexit, and what it signals...

Tax
6 January 2026

Andersen Frowns At US Relief From Minimum Corporate Tax Regime

A carve-out for US-based corporates from elements of a proposed global minimum tax regime suggests...

Investment Strategies
6 January 2026

Wealth Managers Ponder Venezuela Fallout

The Trump administration certainly began 2026 in dramatic fashion, announcing the capture of the...

Company Profiles
6 January 2026

Expanding Klay Sets Sights On Swiss Entry, Explains Business Model

The rise of such firms highlights how HNW and ultra-HNW individuals, often with multiple bank...

Comment & Analysis results for Archive

Strategy
22 May 2023

BOOK REVIEW: In Defence Of Capitalism, By Rainer Zitelmann

While unlikely to sway those already hostile to the free market economic system, this book puts a...

WM Market Reports
22 March 2023

Tech Traps Wealth Managers Must Avoid 2023

The latest edition of our regular "Tech Traps" reports. ...

Offshore
6 March 2023

The Squeeze On Investment Visas – What Should Happen Now?

With these programmes, the subject of this interview says, the benefit is not just in the initial...

Asset Management
6 March 2023

Comgest's Mood Brightens For Europe, Asia Investments

After a strong start to global stock markets, Franz Weis chief investment officer at Comgest, a...

Art
9 February 2023

Fine Art Finance – A Change Of Perspective For Your Collection

The international law firm gives a brief tour of the fine art investment landscape, a subject of...

White Papers
3 February 2023

Achieving Digital Experience Goals With Technology

The author of this article – the second in a series – argues that even in difficult...

Technology
2 February 2023

Where Next For Banks And Digital Assets?

The rout in prices of cryptocurrencies and certain entities last year shook the sector and has left...

Client Affairs
5 January 2023

Focus On Investment Opportunities In India – Lombard Odier

Stéphane Monier, chief investment officer at Swiss private bank Lombard Odier in Geneva, discusses...

Compliance
29 November 2022

The FTX Collapse: The Lessons

The author of this article argues that the failures with FTX are little to do with regulation or...

Compliance
27 October 2022

The Pandora Papers One Year On: Lessons Learned And To Learn

Today, the idea appears to grow that holding wealth is something deserving of opprobrium. The more...