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Economists that work in the financial markets tend to follow the crowd. That is very economic and risk averse on their side: If they are wrong like everybody else, they will not be blamed on an individual level. If they were wrong as the ‘odd one out’, they would be more likely to...

In the last decades, interest rates have only shown one direction – alongside inflation rates they have moved south. Until they tipped the bottom at zero or even in negative figures.

Now for the first time, inflation is on the screen again with prices in some commodities picking up and...

Following a very bumpy year 2020 with a decline in stock markets in March 2020 of around 30% and a pick-up of valuations to new highs within a short time of around 6 months, it seems difficult to make any projections for the coming year 2021 at all. At the end of the year 2020 for example the...

Impact investing is finally coming to Germany and Europe, after it existed for some time in the Anglo-Saxon world. The GIIN (Global Impact Investing Network) defines: “Impact Investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social...

The financial services industry continues to change – not only due to the significant financial crises (Lehman, Covid-19) and the continuing regulatory changes, but also due to digitalization, changing requirements from the Next Generation of wealth owners or the increasingly product-driven...

Everybody wants his wealth to be organized in a sustainable way. And when I use the term sustainable, I mean two things: Investments obviously should contribute to making this world a better place and investments should be structured as to withstand external shocks.

Diversification is usually the...

Undoubtedly, more and more (single) family offices are continuously being set-up around the world. This is mainly due to the following reasons:

The significant increase in the number of millionaires / billionaires particularly in the world’s growth regions, the continued strive for...