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Why wealth preservation needs a disciplined approach

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to generational wealth transfer

The UAE retains its allure for the ultra-wealthy

The country’s appeal holds strong due to its safe haven status and enviable lifestyle

What lockdown? Covid unlocks more wealth, millionaires in ME

Similarly, the wealth of the region's UHNWIs also grew during the period from $1.242 trillion to $1.406 trillion.

Cutting Through the Noise

After a stellar year or so, gold saw some profit booking last month.

What’s the number one priority of the Great Wealth Transfer for millennials?

Other main priorities included purchasing property, increasing investments to make a sustainable impact and committing to good causes.

UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2020

Find out which cities have the greatest housing bubble risk and discover the latest housing market trends.

Credit Suisse to cut jobs in Gulf in wealth management overhaul

Around 20 people to be let go by the banking giant, mainly in Dubai

Credit Suisse AM partners with Qatar Investment Authority

Credit Suisse Asset Management has partnered with Qatar Investment Authority to create a private credit platform.

Shake-up at Luxembourg’s Qatar-owned Quintet bank

Private lender has implemented wide-ranging corporate restructuring

UBS makes sustainable investments the preferred solution for clients of its USD 2.6 trillion global wealth management business

UBS is the first major global financial institution to recommend sustainable over traditional solutions for private clients investing globally

Sanctum Wealth: The Great Disconnect

Effectively, markets now stand assured that Fed will hold off hikes even if inflation spikes beyond 2% temporarily and hence, rates will stay lower for longer (consensus is until 2023).

Wealth management gets digital intervention

But best option for the future will be to mix it up with human element

HSBC teams up with Pollination for 'natural capital' venture

Aim to launch $1bln real assets fund by middle of 2021

Sanctum Wealth: Fuzzy Markets

The market senses that economic activity could be losing momentum.

Global dividends plunge by $108bn during Covid-19 crisis

Study of world’s largest 1,200 companies reveals biggest quarterly drop since records began

Gold could head as high as $3,400, VanEck CEO says as metal pulls back from records

“We became really bullish last summer when gold broke out of its six-year sort of sideways market, and then the other technical confirmation happened when it went to all-time highs a month or so ago,” van Eck said Monday on CNBC

Look for Value in True Growth or Solid Dividends

Over the longer term, we completely accept very low interest rates are a boon for true growth stocks such as tech companies, but we should not forget emerging markets.

Bank of Singapore expands Middle East footprint

It has had a presence in the region since 1996

Mideast family businesses should focus on succession planning, wealth transfer

Families in the Middle East tend to be large - their size is on average double that of UK and US families

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