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Dear families, dear clients, dear partners, dear friends,

We are pleased to announce that from Monday March 22nd onwards, the Amadeus Capital team will be receiving you at 14 rue Rodolphe-Toepffer, in Geneva, its new headquarters. Built in 1867 by the Swiss naturalist painter Louis-Auguste Veillon to shelter both his family and his atelier, our house will enable us to host our family-clients and our business partners in a more comfortable and suitable manner.

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Robo Advisors have spooked parts of the Financial Industry with their no-frills Wealth Management solutions. While the ETF industry is successfully using them as another distribution platform for their products, smaller banks and independent Asset & Wealth Managers are at risk of falling behind. In our paper we demystify the “Robo” term and, shedding light on the performance of leading German players, show why we think that Multi-Asset Funds are still a very good alternative for end investors.

Those of us who don't yet trade based on reddit forums may remember that another topic was poised to gain relevance this year: Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) criteria. Even though, regulators have decided to postpone the application of new disclosure rules until 2021 there is no doubt that investors need to adjust their workflows respectively. Our paper illustrates some of the pitfalls and weaknesses of ESG investing and discussed the question what it implies for expected returns.

By fall next year, the great bond bull market will potentially be celebrating its 40th anniversary, with the US 10Y yield having fallen from a high at 15.84% in September 1981 to a low of only 0.51% in August 2020.

Asset allocators who have not given up on generating returns exceeding fees and inflation face tough choices. Those who do not want to bet the bank on equities should better look for alternatives.