Transition to a New World Order 2023 has started with the US continuing leading a united Global West, China re-opening and focusing on economic growth, Russia digging in on its illegal military attack on Ukraine and Iran’s regime doubling down on domestic repression. Stay prepared for more...
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Geneva, 10 January 2023 – Key Family Partners, the Multi-Family Office based in Geneva, has appointed Eric Sarasin and Fabian Godbersen as external members of its Alternative Investment Committee. The strengthening of the Committee comes at a time when niche real estate strategies appear particularly...
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2022 was a year of extraordinary surprises for politicians, businesses and investors resulting in a ground-breaking divide, with winners such as Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ursula von der Leyen, Jens Stoltenberg, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and Mohammed bin Salman and on the losing side...
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Financial markets look ahead and discount future developments. Thus, equity markets reflect fears and worries well ahead of actual economic pains, recessionary troughs or corporate distress and defaults. Managing the Fear & Greed Cycle As we know, risk assets move in fear & greed cycles from fear,...
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Clash - Policies versus Markets We continue to live through unprecedented and complex geopolitics, painful inflation battles, economic adjustment and business contraction cycles and turbulent capital markets. Policymakers, business leaders and investors are facing tough challenges - emotionally, intellectually and financially. They have to navigate through transformative...
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Geopolitics - Complexities and Confrontations Geopolitical complexities increase and economic confrontations between the West and Russia and China keep escalating, yet no relief nor resolution is in sight any time soon. Sadly, many countries continue to prioritize nationalist politics over economic and business interests, leading to dire...
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At KFP we have always advocated substantially higher weights to alternatives than most wealth managers. To us alternatives are defined as private equity, venture capital, real estate, private debt and hedge funds. In a well-diversified portfolio, alternative investments can provide the bulk of your returns. This...
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Dear Friends, 2022 has seen dramatic changes of generational proportions including post pandemic effects, a war in Europe, sharply spiking inflation and major economic dislocations and capital market losses. For the time being we stick to our defensive investment stance, as initiated and published since December 2021....
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Chaotic Global Macro at Centre Stage The global macro situation remains complex and chaotic filled with conflicts, cross currents, vastly diverging and often opposing interests: Russia’s unlawful war on Ukraine China’s misguided COVID policy Global energy and food crisis Unprecedented sovereign debt levels Derailed inflation ratesFragmentation in financial marketsIncreasing financial stability...
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Switzerland-based Morten H. Kielland has a 10 percent equity share. "If I had been bullish on equities, the share would have been 50 per cent," says the investor, who has loaded into gold stocks. In 2008, Morten H. Kielland moved to Switzerland after selling the fund management...
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