Relationship managers must re-educate themselves to cope with new regulations and commercial considerations

Natixis Global Asset Management will invest in new product ranges or buy in expertise in its push to be a truly global player, according to chief executive Pierre Servant

EManuela D’onofrio, UniCredit Private Banking

As politicians in the US scrambled to avert the dreaded fiscal cliff, asset managers responded by repositioning portfolios, anticipating 2013 will be a good year for equities

Laurent Ramsey, CEO of Pictet Funds, believes that it was by prioritising the needs of clients that the Swiss institution expanded during the 2008 crisis and then managed to consolidate those gains

Balanced portfolios are often full of assets that are too closely correlated to each other to be truly diversified, warns CapGen’s Charlotte Thorne

Willem Sels (left), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank, and Peter Branner, global CIO, SEB Asset Management, argue about the role high yield should play in client portfolios

Jan Dehn, Ashmore

High quality government bonds may promise safety, but offer extremely low yields. Yet there are still opportunities to be found elsewhere in the fixed income universe

Mark Smallwood, Deutsche Bank

Wealthy Asians are gradually coming round to the need to put firm plans in place for the transfer of wealth between generations, creating opportunities for private banks offering suitable structures

With ongoing doubts about the future of the global economy the ability of multi-asset funds to move
easily between classes is making these vehicles more popular

Wealth managers now have enough faith in the global economy to recommend buying up distressed assets, but any moves into the asset class must be considered long-term

Didier Duret, chief investment officer in ABN Amro's private banking division, talks to PWM's Yuri Bender about identifying key companies, which will benefit from a manufacturing renaissance during 2013.