According to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in 2024 there were more than $1 trillion in assets under management allocated towards achieving social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns. What are the most popular forms of these assets and how do family offices approach them? This article breaks down the key information.
Across Western Europe, ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) women are asserting an increasingly influential role in impact investing. They currently oversee some €4.6 trillion in assets, a sum set to swell by nearly half over the next decade (McKinsey & Company via Bloomberg, 2024). This rising financial influence is shifting private capital’s priorities. No longer content with purely financial returns, these investors seek to channel wealth toward causes that reflect their values. Digital platforms that offer transparency, control, and seamless alignment with personal convictions have become key tools in this transformation.
Impact investing – allocating capital to generate measurable social or environmental benefits alongside financial returns – has become a strategic choice for UHNWIs. Far from a passing trend, it aligns with their goals of creating lasting legacies while addressing pressing global challenges. This article explores five key reasons why.
As we settle into 2024, an upward trend in many cryptocurrencies’ prices is putting the relatively new asset class in headlines and under many investors’ consideration. Below we break down the ten most important cryptocurrency-related vocabulary terms to know as what many analysts consider to be the next crypto bull market takes off.
Trading on stock markets is one of the most important things that keeps economies around the world going. Indexes like the DAX, Dow Jones, and Nikkei 225 are very important to this because they show not only how well the economies of individual countries are doing but also important information about how money is moving around the world.
The demand for essential minerals has increased in a world moving towards green energy transitions. Key minerals, often termed critical minerals, include minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, which are crucial technological components. They are used in batteries used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage systems.
The price of publicly traded financial instruments like equities, derivatives, and futures contracts is constantly fluctuating. Day trading is the buying and selling such instruments within the same trading day to profit from these short-term price movements. In the case of so-called high-frequency day trading, hold times can be as short as a few seconds.
Bitcoin, the most well-known type of cryptocurrency, has gained widespread recognition as a potentially promising yet volatile investment asset since around 2017. Initially available for less than a dollar in 2009, Bitcoin traded for an all-time high of around $69,000 in 2021 and currently hovers just under $40,000 across various specialised exchanges.

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