Investors typically view safe havens as offering protection in market downturns. This can include defensive stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, commodities, currencies, private equity and alternatives. You can throw insurance, art, wine and collectibles into the mix, too.
Two of this year’s Top 30 Under 30 work in family offices, offering them a different perspective on the Covid-19 crisis.
Earlier this year Union Bancaire Privée, the private banking group, scooped the award for best pure-play boutique private bank at this publication’s Greater China programme. We managed to catch up with Eric Morin, CEO for Hong Kong and head of north Asia at the Geneva-based group, to ask him about its strategy and in particular, the firm’s recently-launched Family Offices Services arm.
Manna Tree Partners, a Vail, CO-based investment firm that invests in companies focused on human health and wellbeing, today announced it has raised $141.5 million for its first fund, Manna Tree Partners Fund I, L.P.
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a race for disruptive innovation in diagnostics, new therapies and novel vaccines, but the global life sciences industry was already expected to reach more than $2 trillion in gross value by 2023, up from $1.6 trillion before the crisis.
2020 will be marked as a year when the world advanced to an entirely new state of being during a global lockdown.
“Amplifying the Positive Values of Family Office Investments for the Good of Humanity,” hosted by Sir Anthony Ritossa of The Ritossa Family Office on April 21 under the High Patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Duaij bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, unified a record-breaking 873 leading global family offices and industry professionals for a Virtual Keynote Panel exploring the best path forward in today’s uncertain times.
Capital Square, a national investment sponsor specializing in tax-advantaged real estate offerings, announced today that the firm has expanded its sales team with the addition of Marc Meunier as regional vice president, responsible for sales in the company’s northeast territory.
International moving service provider Moovaz announced that it has secured a Series A investment from Quest Ventures. This investment is a part of the US$7 million Series A funding round that was announced earlier from Supply Chain Angels, SGInnovate as well as other strategic investors. The funding round also included convertibles.
Bermuda is in an economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, and in recognition that this is not the time for business as usual, the Government has called for innovative solutions to revive our economy.
