Hugo Thompson, Multi-Asset Investment Specialist, HSBC Asset Management writes that investing for income used to be the easiest game in town. 

Nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of wealth and succession planning advisors say that complex, cross-border, mixed-ethnicity and cohabiting families now make up a meaningful proportion, or in some cases the majority, of the families they advise. 

Philippa Aylmer writes that inflation is now more than double the Bank of England’s inflation target and with continued supply bottle necks, labour shortages and rising commodity prices, inflation is expected to rise even further.
 

Henry Biddle and Martin Todd, Sustainable Global Equity Portfolio Managers, at the international business of Federated Hermes write that to do good while doing well through their portfolio, investors should consider broadening financial inclusion as a sustainable investment theme

HSBC has revealed the findings of its first ever Global Indian Pulse. The firm writes that the Indian diaspora is the largest migrant population in the world and yet there is limited data looking at how they view the countries where they live, and also the strength and importance of their connections back to India.

Some 75 per cent of high-net-worth individuals (with a household income before tax of at least GBP100,000) now make financial decisions based solely on online advice, according to a new survey from Receptional.

Julian Howard, Lead Investment Director for Multi Asset Solutions, GAM Investments writes that in the famous café scene of 1995 thriller Heat Robert De Niro’s bank robber Neil McCauley faces off with Al Pacino’s obsessive cop Vincent Hanna. 

Model portfolio provider FE Investments has launched a new range of portfolios designed for financial advisers to help their clients in the decumulation phase of their investment journeys.
 

Wealth group Kingswood Holdings has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Money Matters (North East) Limited, a privately owned wealth management business, primarily offering its services in the North East of England.

Philippa Aylmer writes that between the start of 2021 and mid-October, just over GBP146,000 had been lost to cryptocurrency fraud, according to Action Fraud Fund, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.