Having experienced the benefits of customisation in other areas of their lives, wealthy investors now demand a more personalised service from private banks

It is becoming increasingly apparent that wealthy individuals in Asia make for very different clients than their counterparts in the West

Having endured a torrid few years, emerging markets are once again outperforming their developed peers and valuations remain attractive, so is now the time to invest?

Many investment professionals are surprisingly upbeat on the impact the upcoming Trump presidency will have on markets, sensing buying opportunities amid the uncertainty

Jeffrey Sacks, Emea investment strategist at Citi Private Bank and Ajay Kapur, Asia and global emerging markets strategist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, ask whether emerging markets have turned a corner

The prospects for emerging markets look better than they have done for some time while equity valuations remain attractive. Is now the time to invest?

Have markets lost faith in central banks? Have their policies failed? What happens next? Mark Haefele, global chief Investment officer at UBS Wealth Management, Didier Saint-Georges, MD and member of the Investment Committee at Carmignac and Paul Lambert, head of currency, Insight Investment give their views on how investors should be reacting

With the regulator’s radar firmly tuned towards big banks, smaller players are now able to offer their relationship managers much greater flexibility, making them much more appealing in the battle for talent