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Financial Investigator (01.10.2021) - Private debt can boost the supply of social and affordable housing, for the benefit of investors and low-income residents alike. We see potential for a long-running investment theme. 

Wealth Magazine (22.10.2021) - Frontier markets offer an attractive investment opportunity, as a separate investment from global EMD, for several reasons. The most obvious is that returns have outpaced broader sovereign EMD through all relevant periods. 

Allnews (15.10.2021) - There’s a lot of talk about sustainable finance. But outside a fairly narrow group of specialists, who really understands the realities surrounding its concepts and what the attendant new jargon actually means?

Le Temps (04.10.2021) - Conditions for private markets, which started to take off in the 1990s, are now better than they have ever been. A large proportion of the alternative investment universe – all non-traditional asset classes – is covered by private markets.

Institutional Money (03.09.2021) - This year, we have held – and continue to hold – a positive bias on credit markets. This has been driven by our macro scenario of a robust and sustained global growth recovery as economies normalise following the vaccine rollout, coupled with the significant policy support coming from both monetary and fiscal authorities which should allow global growth to exceed its pre-Covid trend.

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.

Environmental Finance (12.08.2021) - The latest IPCC report should shock the world into climate action – and for investors that means prioritising positive impact, writes Rupert Welchman.

Money Week (31.05.2021) - How we live our lives and how we choose to invest our savings have typically been worlds apart. Happily, it has recently become possible to bring these two elements much closer together. There’s a growing number of listed companies that are working hard to understand their place in the world beyond simple profit.

Le Temps (26.07.2021) - The final countdown is underway. In less than six months, on 1 January 2022, the world of finance will enter the post-Libor era.

Agefi Actifs (23.07.2021) - Significant improvements in corporate governance in Japan – as shown in particular by increasing female representation in companies' governing bodies – could drive stronger momentum in the Japanese market over the long term.

Institutional Money (16.07.2021) - Recent moves by the Fed confirm our fixed-income views of being defensive on interest rate exposure and constructive on credit exposure.

Allnews (12.07.2021) - Union Bancaire Privée is taking a unique approach to impact investing. Interview with Simon Pickard and Mathieu Nègre.

A lot has changed in the last few years. Impact investing in listed equity is relatively new and, in recent years, there has been much debate about whether impact can even be achieved in secondary markets.

Environmental impact investing in equities has moved from a niche strategy to the mainstream in recent years. But what exactly are environmental equities, their current valuations and the opportunities available in this sector?

Institutional Money (04.06.2021) - Having trailed other regions in the recovery post-Covid, we now expect Europe to outperform as a number of key factors pivot in the continent’s favour. This bodes well for European credit and in particular higher-income segments, such as high yield and AT1s.

Le Temps (17.05.2021) - The wealth management sector in Switzerland, seen by some as traditionalist or even downright old-fashioned, has once again shown how its agility and innovativeness still make it the leader.