We live through truly transformative times with fundamental and major dislocations in politics, economics and capital markets. Independent and democratic Ukraine is under unprovoked military attack and suffering horrendous atrocities from totalitarian and revanchist Russia. This war, however, has global implications. Under attack are also...
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Stalemate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February took the world by surprise, and has moved investors’ attention away from COVID to almost exclusively on geopolitics and inflation. As well as the enormous humanitarian impact and suffering caused, the war has created major global financial consequences for...
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Introduction Traditional equity portfolios are a core part of what we do at KFP. They are often one of the largest components of a client’s portfolio. However, disciplined portfolio construction often gets overlooked in traditional wealth management. Clients are usually faced with several choices. Do they build...
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Russia’s Putin launched an unprovoked military invasion into the Ukraine on February 24th 2022. Up to that point Putin had three strategic options to deal with the self-inflicted situation in the Ukraine: to de-escalate, to muddle-through or to attack. I had assigned a low probability to...
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The Russian President threatening the Ukraine, offers highly uncertain rewards yet a potentially lethal downside for him and his inner circle. Russia is getting ahead of itself apparently emboldened by the illegal and only modestly sanctioned seizure of Crimea. The blame, however, lies by no...
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By Elsa Floret, SPHERE, December 2021 Founded by Hugues d'Annoux and Morten H. Kielland, Key Family Partners is designed as a private investment club, which offers wealthy families a professional structure offering solutions in asset allocation, investment, reporting and administrative services. Key Family Partners offers its clients advisory...
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We are pleased to announce that one of our investments, NerdWallet, the personal finance website founded in 2009, went public this month. The company recorded $182 million in revenue in the first six months of 2021, representing YoY growth of 32%. NerdWallet generated $5...
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GLOBAL ECONOMY New Monetary tightening cycle at hand The Federal Reserve finally got off the fence and announced plans for a new monetary tightening cycle to start later this year with a phased reduction in its bond buying programme (tapering of QE) to be completed by mid...
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GLOBAL ECONOMY Taper whimper The much anticipated Fed speech at the Central Bankers’ annual convention in Jackson Hole (held remotely on Friday 27th August) provided little new insight into the Fed’s plans for monetary tightening. On the contrary, Powell confirmed that tapering of the QE would probably...
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Finance Corner - Un nouvel associé pour Key Family Partners - Ricardo Payro - 16 septembre 2021 Le Multi-Family Office genevois Key Family Partners a nommé Emanuele Zanon di Valgiurata en tant qu’Associé et Membre du Conseil d’administration. Par ailleurs, Simon Minder a été nommé comme...
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