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The market for green and social bond issued by financial and non-financial companies is booming.

Despite waning global growth momentum and rising inflation, strong fundamentals and relative valuations are offering compelling arguments for a strategic allocation to emerging market fixed income.

Global consumers’ everyday lives are shaped by Swiss products and services at different levels and in various aspects. Our experts dive into the secret behind “Swiss-made” quality.

Le Temps (27.12.2021) - One fact about the financial industry that everyone agrees on nowadays is that, as a strategic allocator of private capital, it has a major role to play in reducing economies’ carbon footprint, and this is clear to see in the sharp growth of so-called “sustainable” funds.

The surge in inflation in 2021 combined with the sharp fall in unemployment leaves two of the US Federal Reserve’s key policy objectives within reach as the year comes to a close.

The global pandemic has allowed the European Union to lay a new foundation upon which it can build to bring about greater integration in the years ahead.

The Swiss small- and mid-cap (also known as “SMID-cap”) universe offers a balanced and diversified exposure to companies with long-term value-creation potential. Active managers can create significant added value through a disciplined stock-selection process.

Funds People (17.11.2021) - The rise of passive management, the difficulty of finding profitable, low-risk investments in a context of 0% interest rates, industry concentration and the ESG boom are just some of the challenges asset managers face. We spoke to Nicolas Faller, Co-CEO of Asset Management at Union Bancaire Privée, about all of this and more, in an exclusive interview. 

In the latest episode of UBP’s Expert series, Norman Villamin, CIO Wealth Management and Pierre Corby, Equity Analyst Healthcare, invited Dr Samarth Kulkarni, CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics, to discuss the challenges and investment opportunities offered by medical innovation, specifically in the field of gene editing.

Embracing Change

Institutional Money (8.11.2021) - Coming into the final quarter of the year, our view had been that the economic recovery would allow central banks to start guiding towards less accommodative policies, and that this would provide room for rates to rise. 

The 2015 Paris Agreement called for a 5-year cycle of updates on nationally determined contributions (NDC). This latest update would have occurred in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.