05/12/2023
How do higher interest rates help to lower inflation?
Interest rates and inflation are closely linked. Higher rates will help to bring down inflation.
Comment, Analysis & Research
05/11/2023
Money: A Question of Purpose and Trust − speech by Carolyn Wilkins
Given at OMFIF global annual Digital Monetary Institute symposium
05/11/2023
Nearly a quarter of clients 'anxious' about ongoing inflation
Clients value reassurance from advisers during cost of living crisis
05/11/2023
Evelyn Partners joins with Flagstone to give clients access to platform offering multiple deposit accounts
Flagstone International Limited is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
05/11/2023
Generating consistent returns with SMID caps
In return, the partnership enables UBP’s clients to access a world-class equity specialist with a twenty-year track record of consistently delivering alpha across a range of market conditions and cycles.
05/11/2023
Diversity at the top makes banks better
Other banks that did already have diversity policies in place have raised their targets.
05/10/2023
Our latest luxury London property insight
What happened in Q1 and where might the market go from here?
05/10/2023
Aviva pays £374 million in Group Protection claims during 2022
Last year’s Group Protection claims payment is the equivalent of paying out more than £1million to employees and their families every day across group income protection, group critical illness and group life insurance claims.
05/10/2023
Four questions for equity investors to consider on credit risk
Equity investors increasingly need the mindset of a corporate bond investor amid the regime shift in interest rates and inflation.
05/10/2023
Morningstar analysts back Trojan Income despite poor performance
Morningstar analyst Jack Fletcher-Price believes the £1.2bn fund’s focus on dividend growth should reward investors in the long-term, after its assets slide to a third of 2020 peak.
05/10/2023
How investible is natural capital?
Five key things I took away from a recent discussion on the increasingly important investment theme of natural capital.
05/09/2023
Exclusive interview with Marc-André Poirier, Indosuez Switzerland CEO, with Agefi
'' In Switzerland, Indosuez weathered the financial turbulence ''
05/09/2023
IMF: 'The story is not over' on banking turmoil - reports
Despite strong regulatory intervention, including the brokering of Credit Suisse's sale by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, Gourinchas warned that there was "still some incomplete work on banking supervision".
05/08/2023
Julius Baer UK CEO: We mustn’t ‘patronise’ the next generation
David Durlacher says that despite Julius Baer’s century-old history, the firm is prioritising the next generation of investors, looking for authenticity over tradition.
05/08/2023
Romeo Lacher: «This bothers me personally»
He explains where the volume will come from and why a second major wave of outflows is looming at Credit Suisse.
05/08/2023
Pound rises against other monarchical countries in Charles's reign
Since September 8 last year, sterling has risen the most against the Norwegian Krone, jumping 13 per cent.
05/08/2023
“The Credit Suisse crisis isn’t destroying faith in the Swiss model” – Frédéric Rochat, Managing Partner
Some people believe it was the Credit Suisse name itself that generated confusion among investors, encouraging them to link the institution’s difficulties to the entire sector.
05/08/2023
How positive is the legacy that consultants leave behind?
At a time of significant cost volatility and heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, businesses are finding it increasingly challenging to forecast levels of market demand.
05/05/2023
Pension Fund Study 2023: Collective and joint institutions gaining ground
The study also examines why the investment strategy of collective and joint institutions barely differs from that of other pension funds, despite the fact that they have a younger age structure, for example.
05/05/2023
“The transition is an industrial revolution” - Hubert Keller, Senior Managing Partner
The banker also describes the essential role of oil companies in this transition and asserts that a bank should not have a prescriptive or moralising role when it comes to sustainable finance.