Strategic Outlook: Outbound Investment

  • outbound investment, volatility
A perfect storm Domestic institutions, HNW, mass affluent and retail investors are currently at the initial stages of what appears to be the largest shift in investment habits since mutual funds took center stage in 2007: they are all looking outbound. Z-Ben Advisors acknowledges that all of these investor groups will vary in the way […]
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(China Alert) Volatility: ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s expensive

  • volatility
·Last week’s volatility hit global markets ·Domestic market conditions are pushing Chinese money offshore ·Single data points do not paint a full picture of China’s markets Update: Z-Ben Advisors would like to remind the audience that the volatility witnessed over the past week is nothing new. It would be very dangerous to extrapolate a single […]
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Strategic Outlook – Integrating, not Emerging – Part II

  • Risk, volatility
Market swings that characterize economies with deepening financial systems – The US in the 1980s and Europe in the 1990s – are now being seen onshore in China but on a much different scale and at a much different point in its development. The mid-point of 2015 demonstrated that equity volatility originating in China can […]
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(Strategic Outlook) China: Integrating, not Emerging

  • competition, opportunity, volatility
Part I: Volatility, opportunity and competition in Greater China Z-Ben Advisors’ new research, “China: Integrating, not Emerging” shows how mainland China’s financial services landscape has changed as a reaction to the severe volatility that has emerged over the last several months. The aftermath of this crisis will bring tremendous opportunity for international investment managers, as access to […]
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