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L’Union Bancaire Privée étoffe son offre en obligations convertibles avec deux nouvelles solutions thématiques innovantes

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet/Google (‘Big Tech’) make up nearly 20% of the entire US market capitalisation by now. As a result, clouds may gather on the horizon for Big Tech in the shape of anti-trust prosecutions, increased regulation, and the prospect of adverse tax policies.

Funds Society (28.01.2021) - An improvement in corporate governance, a stable government and a leading edge in digitalisation and robotics are making the Japanese small-cap segment a rich source of attractive opportunities for selective investors, says UBP Senior Analyst Cédric Le Berre.

2020 was a stellar year for the software sector despite the pandemic. Companies accelerated their digital transformation to allow their employees to work from home. 

The economy is set to rebound in 2021, leading the global economic recovery once again. 

Institutional Money (27.01.2021) - Despite an accelerating Covid-19 spread into year-end, risk markets concluded 2020 on a strong note as investors took confidence from the commencement of the vaccine rollout in the US and UK. 

President Joe Biden has taken the US back into the Paris Agreement framework. While time has been lost, CO2 emissions are down over the last five years and the new US administration will push climate action up the agenda and build upon policies already enacted by corporates and at state and local levels. 

With vaccines to combat the global pandemic being rolled out beginning in late-December, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have led the world in vaccinating their populations, having reached > 20% coverage by mid-January.

L’Union Bancaire Privée annonce des apports nets d’actifs de près de CHF 9 milliards et des avoirs sous gestion en progression, à CHF 147,4 milliards (+5,1%).

Impact investing is clearly differentiated from other sustainable investment solutions, but still takes ESG criteria into account.

Les collaborateurs de l'UBP à Genève se sont récemment vu offrir une occasion unique d'acquérir une œuvre d’art de la Banque, tout en contribuant aux projets de la fondation Cansearch.

Over 1.1 million households in England are on local authority waiting lists for affordable housing. Furthermore, it is widely expected that waiting lists will lengthen as more households will be forced to seek cheaper accommodation due to the impact of COVID-19.