InsingerGilissen braces for a storm in high-yield 

A fortnight ago, Dutch private bank InsingerGilissen sold a pack of high yield bonds to increase its holdings in investment grade bonds. The bank does not rule out that it will do so again in early 2023. “If you expect risks, there will be a storm in the high yield segment as well,” chief investment officer Gerwin Wijnia told InvestmentOfficer.nl.

HSBC’s Chris Allen named Group CEO at Quintet 

Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank on Thursday said that it has named Chris Allen as Group CEO. Allen, who spent the past 15 years moving up the ranks at HSBC, brings over three decades of financial services experience to the role and will take up the position on 1 July. His appointment is subject to regulatory approval. 

2021, can we settle the score?

Traditionally, the first outlooks for the coming year trickle in from September onwards. With sometimes a quarter of a year still to go, strategists start relating their vision of the economic and financial themes that await investors in the next calendar year. The big question is which investors have actually hit the mark in their outlook for 2021. The reckoning.