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Offshore Structures - 3 min
Wealth Structuring: Investing via an Offshore Structure
Jul 1, 2024
Offshore Structures - 3 min
Wealth Structuring: Why Asset Governance Matters
Jun 10, 2024
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 3 min
The Transparency Paradox: Private vs Public
Two potential barriers to understanding investments are opacity (lack of transparency) and complexity.
Dec 26, 2023
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 3 min
Structured Products: Counterparty Risk
Structured products often involve counterparties other than the issuers. Our last article discussed how problems faced by the issuers of structured products endanger the returns of an otherwise well-performing product. This article examines the risk of other counterparties in structured products.
Oct 8, 2023
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 3 min
Structured Products: Issuer Risk
Our last article looked at “market risk,” or the risk that market conditions might cause asset prices to move unexpectedly.
Sep 17, 2023
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 4 min
Structured Products: Market Risk
Our last article introduced some of the risks in structured products that are “hidden” in their design and hard to mitigate.
Sep 5, 2023
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 4 min
Structured Products: Return Without Risk?
Investors must balance risk and return. An investment that has the potential for high returns—like a promising technology startup—also risks failure and reducing its stock price to zero. Safe assets like US government bonds that feature very low risk have very low or even negative returns after inflation.
Aug 21, 2023
Decoding Risks in Structured Products - 3 min
After the Bull Market: What Next?
The investing landscape has changed fundamentally over the past 18 months. The global economy remains strong, but a new era of high interest rates and a shrinking money supply might end the bull market that has persisted largely since 2009.[1] Good returns may be harder to achieve through simple, passive investing strategies. Investors must seek other ways for growth.
Aug 17, 2023
Education - 3 min
The Effect Of Compounding
Albert Einstein is reported to have described compounding as “the eighth wonder of the world.” The power of compounding is real, but it is not intuitively obvious. For investors, it makes a significant difference to one’s net worth.
Mar 13, 2023