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Canada’s Luxury Real Estate Market Had a Record-Setting 2021: Sotheby’s

Canada’s luxury real estate market just had an historic year.

7% inflation shows Fed missed their window to taper sooner

The current levels of inflation haven’t been seen for 40 years outside of emerging markets

Swiss firms expect slightly stronger euro and stable US dollar in 2022

The reasons for not engaging in hedging vary, with over half prepared to accept the risk.

Why aiming to beat inflation will be a key investment theme in 2022

As higher inflation looks set to persist in 2022, finding ways to generate a return on investments greater than inflation will be a key investment theme

Risky Business: Getting Advisors to Talk about ESG to Clients

In fact, despite the numerous stories and news articles suggesting that investors are highly interested in ESG investing, only 30% of the advisors who use ESG ask every client if they’re interested in ESG investing.

CIO Viewpoint: Pandemic to endemic; living with infection, inflation and higher rates

The greatest economic challenge from Omicron now looks increasingly like its infectiousness, not its severity.

Risk Markets on Alert as Rates Spike

This time might very well be different: No longer can the market view the Fed as on the sidelines.

SS&C Intralinks Predicts Sustained Growth for M&A in Q1 2022

“M&A markets are bound to keep pace with a record 2021.”

Canadians put extra wealth to work in 2021

ETFs, mutual funds scored record assets last year

BlackRock Identifies Factors Fueling the Growth of Private Equity

Secondaries and the search for reliable alternative data are the trends to watch for in private equity.

Global M&A to remain strong in 2022

Recording their first positive annual performance for five years, dealmakers expect M&A activity to continue to increase this year and ESG issues to dominate the corporate agend

Survey: The Pandemic has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationship

Restaurant operators are optimistic and plan to invest in technology and real estate to align with consumer preferences, fueling strong credit needs

Barclays Boosts Bank of New York Mellon Price Target to $74.00

The firm has a market cap of $48.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.88, a P/E/G ratio of 2.33 and a beta of 1.17. Bank of New York Mellon has a 1-year low of $39.46 and a 1-year high of $60.52.

Bitcoin is new gold for millennials, Wharton finance professor says

Gold disappointed investors in 2021 as a traditional hedge against inflation, seeing its worst year since 2015.

State Street’s investor confidence index sinks on Omicron

“Positive investor sentiment will nonetheless be challenged by tightening financial conditions, high inflation and fiscal headwinds as we start 2022,”

Salvadoran President Bukele Expects Bitcoin to Reach $100K This Year

El Salvador adopted bitcoin as an official currency last year.

The future of the 1%: These are the 20 US colleges that produce the wealthiest grads

In a 2019 report, Wealth-X detailed the 20 American colleges with the most ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) alumni — grads worth more than $30 million.

Gateses’ $15 billion to foundation tops 2021 list of biggest gifts

The money increases the grant maker’s endowment to about $65 billion.

What Are The Future Digital Technology Trends In Wine? New OIV Study Reveals Answers

The main objectives of digitalization in wine are to: improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability; provide more transparency to consumers, and create value propositions and new business models.

Bank-Based Blockchains Are Multiplying like Rabbits

What’s changed over the last five years is that distributed ledger technology itself has adapted to the needs of banks.

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