Investment views from leading wealth professionals and topical opinions on current wealth matters
Direct private equity investments are increasingly preferred by family offices. Here, Nick Warr (head of Private Wealth) and James Goold (head of Private Equity) at international law firm Taylor Wessing explain why. The nature of family office investment in the private equity industry is undergoing a noticeable shift. Whilst family offices have traditionally been passive […]
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The VW scandal has illustrated just how great the benefits of sustainable investing might be, particularly in managing risk, explains Paul Pizzala, Founding Partner of Climate Risk Ltd Only time will tell exactly how it came to be that Volkswagen made one of the most momentous “clangers” in automobile history. The short story: they fitted their […]
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Returns seem harder to come by today, but investment outperformance is still possible with the right approach, argues James Hambro & Partners’ Head of Investments, John Langrish. Some contend that investors have to settle for lacklustre returns in today’s persistent low-yield environment, at least at the levels of investment risk they have hitherto preferred. Yet […]
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James Randerson, assistant national news editor at “The Guardian”, tells findaWEALTHMANAGER.com why the paper is campaigning for the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to divest themselves of investments in fossil fuels. What was the thinking behind setting up the “Keep it in the Ground” campaign? With the UN climate summit in Paris on the […]
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