Greetings,
We are currently at the pointy end of the year for CIOs, who are heads down working on their 2018 outlooks and snappy ‘top 10’ lists for the next 12 months.
In fact, I’ve spent the past couple of days going back over your 2017 ideas/calls in anticipation of our first annual High Conviction event in Singapore next week – not that I intend to hold the CIO universe to task – but hits and misses make for great conversation starters, right?
Truth be told, APB’s editorial team is an enthusiastic consumer of your research notes – some definitely do it better than others in terms of timeliness and granularity and, believe it or not, a little injection of humour (yes, one Asian private bank manages to provoke the odd smirk) goes a long way – which is why I am looking forward to hosting a panel of CIOs for the opening of our High Conviction event.
Should be a great way to round out the year, not least because the speakers will be providing their house views for the next.
See you there!
Your Top Eight follows.
Cheers,
Sebastian Enberg
Editor
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Decision to scrap AML requirements driven by compliance burden: Accuity
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LGT nets heavy hitter from BNP Paribas WM
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Julius Baer: Investor appetite for equities and bonds reaching “inflection point”
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