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Warsh out César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review The US and Iran said they had reached a framework agreement to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary pact that sent oil prices lower. The…

Stuck at the top César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review A stronger-than-expected US jobs report unsettled markets at the end of last week, increasing expectations for higher Federal Reserve interest rates and sending stocks sharply lower. The jobs report…

Pictet Alternative Advisors (“Pictet”) announces the successful final close of Monte Rosa Co-Investments VI (the “Fund”), raising $1.53bn in committed capital , significantly exceeding its initial target of $1.0bn. The strong oversubscription underscores sustained investor demand for high-quality co-investment opportunities and reflects Pictet’s leading track…

Stuck at the top César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review The US and Iran neared an interim agreement to extend their ceasefire for 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but neither country’s leader signed a deal. The…

La Banque Postale is accelerating its asset management strategy. The banking group has announced plans to merge LBP Asset Management (LBP AM) with its subsidiary La Financière de l'Échiquier (LFDE), creating a new entity named LFDE Investment Managers (LFDE IM). The transaction aims to establish…

Where no IPO has gone before César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review SpaceX set out plans for what could be the biggest IPO in history with a total addressable market worth USD 28.5 tn, a figure approaching the size…

Pierre Schang, Fund Manager, and Jisia Ranaivosoa, Fund Manager/Analyst, La Financière de l'Echiquier Population growth, climate disruption, raw material costs and increasingly stringent health regulations are creating structural needs to collect, sort, recover and treat increasingly dense and complex waste streams. Without significant action, global…

A new era César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping stabilised their ties without achieving any major breakthroughs at a summit in Beijing that successfully institutionalised their competition. Both leaders agreed the…

One blockade after another César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The US and Iran failed to seal a peace deal, with Tehran complaining it had encountered “shifting goalposts”. The week ended with President Donald Trump saying the US would send a delegation…

Christophe Pouchoy, Fund Manager for Echiquier Robots and Humanoids, La Financière de l’Échiquier. According to a report by Bank of America, there could be 1 million humanoid robots in operation by 2030, rising to 3 billion by 2060. Heralding a transformation on a par with…