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Tighter rules have led to rapid deleveraging in China’s housing sector. Embattled real-estate developer Evergrande’s situation has sent shock waves through the credit market. The company’s default looks manageable but could become a systemic issue if the authorities do not facilitate an orderly default.

A cross-sectoral push for sustainable finance

Le Temps (04.10.2021) - Seit die Private Markets in den 1990er Jahren in Mode gekommen sind, haben sie noch nie so starken Zulauf erlebt wie heute. Die privaten Märkte decken einen Grossteil des Bereichs der Alternative Investments und damit des breiten Spektrums nicht traditioneller Anlageklassen ab.

The world stands at the beginning of a pivotal decade in which institutional investors and governments each have a responsibility to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis. UBP is a signatory of the 2021 Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis.

The UK Stewardship Code 2020 sets high stewardship standards for those investing on behalf of UK savers and pensioners.

China’s deployment of a growing range of tools across its policy arsenal highlights the sharp pivot that has taken place from the ‘To get rich is glorious’ era of Deng Xiaoping to the ‘Common Prosperity’ epoch being pursued in earnest by its current leader, Xi Jinping.

Asian markets are being slow to emerge from lockdown, despite the rest of the world gradually opening up its economies again. The reasons for this have much to do with low vaccination rates, but also with governance. A growth gap between developed and emerging markets is beginning to appear.

Institutional Money (03.09.2021) - Unsere positive Grundhaltung in Bezug auf die Märkte für Unternehmensanleihen im bisherigen Jahresverlauf hat weiterhin Bestand. Grundlage dafür ist unser Makroszenario einer kräftigen und weltweit nachhaltigen Konjunkturerholung.

SSF Market Study 2021 reveals what lies behind the growth in sustainable investments

What influence do we as individual consumers have on how sustainable the global textile industry is? Quite a bit, as it turns out. What clothes we buy and how often we do so determines how sustainably one of the world’s largest industries is going to evolve.

Article l’Agefi (27.08.2021) - Macroeconomic developments and how central banks are handling them remain the focus for institutional investors. UBP's head of global fixed income Philippe Gräub shares his analysis.