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Finanz und Wirtschaft (20.03.2021) - Gold prices declined in recent weeks to lows of around $1,680 per ounce. The cause was the continued steepening of the US yield curve.

A new partnership between UBP and amLeague, a specialised index provider, allows investors to combine the advantages of active investment management with those of passive index tracking. 

Institutional Money (04.03.2021) - In spite of the global pandemic, an increase in default rates, and highly volatile investment markets, the global high-yield market delivered positive returns in 2020. 

All too often, economic progress and conservation of nature are seen as mutually exclusive. Indeed, biodiversity loss is considered to be the price to pay for development. In a new report, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), in cooperation with UBP, shows how the opposite is true by guiding financial institutions to measure their nature-related financial risks.

At UBP, thematic investing means devising investment strategies that benefit from megatrends, such as the disruptive forces that are reshaping our economy and our society.

US 10-year Treasury yields have risen 110 bps from their July, 2020 lows and 60 bps alone in 2021. Using previous bond market ‘tantrums’ going back to 2008 as a reference, a rise to as much as 1.7-2.5% may still lie ahead should the turmoil resume.

Le Temps (01.03.2021) - For two decades, Swiss private banks have been engaged in a new test of endurance as they have had to adapt to a raft of new regulations, tougher tax compliance requirements and the globalisation of their client bases. 

Hubbis (18.02.2021) - Hubbis caught up with Ranjit Khanna, UBP’s Head of South Asia and Singapore Branch Chief Executive Wealth Management, recently to hear how well UBP in South Asia has weathered the storms of 2020, and how the bank continues to expand its discretionary, advisory and IAM/ family office propositions.

SMID-cap equities are poised to mean revert and outperform over the next three to five years. The best time to allocate to SMID caps is when earnings are “depressed”, i.e. now.

The pandemic has not only caused economic chaos around the world, but it has also had a deep impact on people’s lifestyles.

A clear light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel is now visible with the start of vaccination campaigns.

Environmental Finance (05.02.2021) - What changed to make renewable energy such an investment success story in 2020, UBP’s Mathieu Negre asks