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How to prepare investment portfolios for possible inflation
Marco Mottadelli

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

How to prepare investment portfolios for possible inflation

After a long period of very low inflation in Western Europe and the States, a combination of factors has led to a rather sudden change. Eurozone inflation hit an estimated 3% in August, with one recent study estimating that Britain could see inflation at 3.9% by next year. Much ink has been spilled over the past quarter about whether this represen...

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How to prepare for investing in more ‘normal’ times
Marco Mottadelli

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

How to prepare for investing in more ‘normal’ times

Extreme periods of disruption are seldom quiet. When the stock market moves several percent points in the course of a day, headlines scream while opinion writers speculate on the cause. Such was the case in the latest round of serious market volatility in the latter part of the first quarter 2020. As the pandemic swept around the world, indices fr...

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Why are British investors increasingly crossing the pond to trade?
Marco Mottadelli

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Why are British investors increasingly crossing the pond to trade?

When it comes to their financial portfolios, Britons are looking abroad. Like modern day versions of the proverbial Mrs. Watanabe, market conditions are pushing even relatively modest retail investors beyond their shores. Whereas those Japanese investors were pushed by low yields and inflation at home to seek fortunes in the foreign exchange offer...

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After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing
Marco Mottadelli

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing

Expansion is the name of the game for today’s financial companies. The CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, announcing record earnings early this quarter, said that he expects the company to evolve from a digital wallet “into a superapp that transcends across payments and financial services.” The term ‘super app’ comes from China, where AliPay and WeChat ...

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