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Rares sont les professions à avoir dû se renouveler aussi profondément que celle de banquier privé sous l’effet de l’environnement extérieur. Certes, le conseil et la confiance sont, et resteront, la quintessence du métier, mais le relationship manager (RM) d’aujourd’hui n’a plus grand-chose à voir avec celui d’avant la crise de 2008.

Institutional Money (08.09.2020) - FRNs offer an attractive risk/reward profile at the effective lower bound

On Thursday 1 October 2020, UBP's experts Norman Villamin and Peter Kinsella hosted a webinar with Evy Hambro, Global Head of Thematic and Sector Investing at Blackrock, to discuss what gold investors can expect in the quarters ahead.

Spotlight - September saw the end of the US Federal Reserve’s inflation containment policy regime in place since the 1970s. 

Finews (28.09.2020) - Adrian Kuenzi has taken his next career step at Union Bancaire Privée, he told finews.com in an interview. The bank will keep investing, because the best of cost-cutting program won't help it win new clients.

With the current respite in markets, investors need to re-anchor their portfolios within the rapidly shifting investment landscape.

Finanz und Wirtschaft (19.09.2020) - Since early August, gold prices have traded in a tight range, between 1900 and 2000 per ounce.

La pandémie a provoqué un ralentissement économique plus sévère que lors de la crise financière mondiale, et la réponse des gouvernements et des banques centrales a été inédite, sur le plan budgétaire comme monétaire.

Institutional Money (04.09.2020) - AT1s having benefited from the last decade’s banking reforms, the potential for attractive returns in this asset class could grow considerably in a stabilisation scenario.

In recent weeks, silver has experienced huge price swings, moving from levels of around $19 to $29 per ounce.

Environmental Finance (14.08) - There is a strong argument for saying that private education has no place in impact investing because education is a basic public good that should be freely accessible to all. 

There have been concerns about a possible exodus of wealth from Hong Kong following the enactment of the National Security Law.