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Cash and private market investments: How to take care of your portfolio’s tails

Excess cash: To hold or to invest?

What impact will CSDR have on custody markets?

The regulation should gradually apply more best-practice behaviours where trading parties will see and feel the punitive measures of not settling on time.

Pension communications: how to keep decision-making rational in the face of a pandemic

As a result, some employees could be tempted to free up cash by reducing their pension contributions

COVID-19 pandemic slows global IPO activity YTD 2020

Technology, industrials and health care sectors dominate with 246 IPOs raising US$42.8b

Five Reasons Gold Is Set To Explode

Five key factors are likely to push gold prices higher in the coming days.

Legacy banks launch speed boats as digital banking goes global

The pandemic has seen an unprecedented move to online banking, with banks likely to ‘sell’ online products in the future, much as Amazon does

Advisers’ DFM use set to increase by 20%, Nucleus census finds

This year’s census suggests advisers are looking to outsource investment decision-making in a variety of ways.

Renewed activity observed across global residential markets: Savills

Once travel restrictions into Singapore are eased, Cheong expects ultra high-net-worth Chinese buyers to snap up properties in the city-state.

Brits set to accumulate £75bn in lockdown as new ‘money revolution’ begins

During lockdown, more than a third (37%) of UK adults stopped using cash altogether,

Deloitte global Millennial Survey reveals a resilient and purpose-led generation

This is backed by a recent Deloitte UK study of over 2,000 UK workers, which found that 48% of employed and self-employed Londoners say the lockdown has had a positive or very positive impact on their wellbeing.

What a difference a crisis makes by Julius Baer

GBP have been less extreme so far, as they were mostly already close to or below zero.

What is the point of using an asset manager?

Passive investments are cheaper and can deliver better returns

China overtakes UK to become world’s fifth-largest fund hub

Shift underscores Asian giant’s status as a rare bright spot for global asset managers

Gold on track for its best quarter since 2016

During the current the coronavirus pandemic and in prior crises, gold has been an effective diversifier and risk reducer in balanced, growth or equity oriented portfolios.

Turbulent times in Ireland’s high-flying aircraft leasing market

It could be a bumpy ride back to prosperity for the plane lessors

Rich Germans quit loyalty to Swiss banks

The media refer to new data from the German Federal Ministry of Finance, which has been compiled by the Automatic Information Exchange (AEOI).

Malta unlikely to pass Moneyval test, US embassy official warns

US embassy official says likelihood is that Malta will be grey-listed by Moneyval 'unless something happens very quickly'

Comment: The IMF’s latest projections for world growth set to temper optimism

The IMF forecasts, along with the recent pick up in Covid-19 infections in China, Germany and the US, leave the assumption of a smooth and rapid rebound in economic activity which has underpinned the recent strong gains in equities, looking all the more q

New research finds listed private equity could improve risk-adjusted returns for private wealth investors

“What our research shows is that if these hurdles can be overcome then private equity has the potential to bring real benefits to private wealth portfolios – and that listed private equity could be a valuable tool to achieve that.”

The Future of Advice

New survey reveals how advisor business models and practices will change—and the implications for asset managers.

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