What are the typical patterns of investment by investors and High Net Worth individuals?
Investors today, with the advancement of technology, are more informed about the investment choices available to them, hence you see them making a more informed decision rather than purely relying on the advice of their financial advisors. Also, with the growth witnessed worldwide, investors have an array of investment opportunities, hence you tend to see investors making a more fundamental and radical diversification to their portfolios, which wasn’t seen before. In the past investors in the region didn’t have as many investment opportunities available locally and were more used to ‘suitcase bankers’. What impact do you see on investor attitudes now? What are they doing in practice, and in your opinion, what they may be advised to do, according to their circumstances, wealth level and preferences? Once the initial panic and nervous sentiment has settled down, a number of investors in the region are viewing the current global crisis as an opportunity to buy undervalued assets. In gener
