Private banking CEO roundtable participants
PdW, Deutsche Both clients and advisers are better prepared now than before the 2008 crisis. The amount of leverage in the system is much lower, and there has thus been less pain.
JF, Citi Clients realized the price of not knowing what they were invested in and exposed to, so there is a greater emphasis around transparency and more easily managing what they have.
SM, BNP Paribas Clients are now more sensitive to their understanding of the financial products they invest in and the assessment of the risk in their portfolio. They are also reducing their expectations in terms of growth and returns, and looking to asset value protection.
JZ, UBS The majority of ultra-high-net-worth clients have adjusted their return expectations to the current market environment of low rates, low to negative inflation and mostly sideways-trading equity markets. Some follow more of a barbell strategy, taking risk in their business or property ventures while keeping their other assets invested in safe and liquid investments. Others simply stick to more defensive cash, bond and credit strategies until financial markets offer better visibility. Having said this, an increasing number of clients are looking to get involved in the less liquid investment space as the current deleveraging cycle offers some great longer-term opportunities for specialized hedge fund and private equity managers.