When global equity markets lost around US$16 trillion of their value in a single month this year, the wealthy found themselves no more protected from financial loss than anyone else.
The Chicago-based merchant bank’s new fund has about 150 investors and will focus on buying stakes in family-owned businesses.
Credicorp Capital’s asset and wealth management units suffered a major hit to their profits in Q1 and saw their combined assets fall 9.6% to $26.87bn as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
Hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller told the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday that stock market is historically overvalued.
Particularly in light of our current economic environment, it undoubtedly pays to have a highly efficient workflow. In utilizing the FINTRX family office and data platform, the outdated and lagging methods of prospecting family offices are overcome, allowing you to spend time building relationships and making deals – rather than spending hours researching potential investors.
Deals worth more than $120 million struck in April alone, as investors look to make the most of soft valuations and a bigger shift towards tech in the post-COVID-19 world.
In a conversation with YourStory, Dr Apoorva Rajan, Co-founder, Venture Catalysts, and Managing Director of 9Unicorns Accelerator Fund, speaks about what startups need to do post COVID-19 to ensure growth.
If you’re in the UK, the lockdown has been lifted, sort of. Following Boris Johnson’s speech last night, citizens are now free to drive a car to work, to hang out on beaches and in parks (from Wednesday), and to meet other people as long as it’s only one at a time and they meet outside and remain two metres apart. Johnson omitted to mention whether bankers can now meet clients too, but he probably didn’t need to: clients don’t want to meet them anyway.
Attitudes to environmental and social roles are changing among owners and investors
Growing desires to preserve family values and legacies are driving forces behind the changing face of wealth management and traditionally structured family offices, explained Envysion’s Jacob Doo, in an interview with finews.asia.
