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Wealthwise: Insights and Strategies for International Banking
Your go-to source for the latest insights and information on how to add value to your life with international banking products and services.
Saving and Investing
Saving and Investing
17 July 2023
Exploring alternative strategies with structured products
Alternative strategies to preserve and grow your wealth can sometimes be viewed as risky. That certainly can be the case if you adopt a more aggressive approach in your portfolio planning, although this is seldom the right approach for your everyday investor.
Saving and Investing
14 November 2022
Structured Products help counter market volatility
The first half of 2022 was a rather rude awakening for investors who had become accustomed to more than a decade of ever-rising stock market prices. Even the pandemic-driven 30% fall in global markets in March 2020 wasn’t enough to dampen investor appetite once prices staged a miraculous recovery over the next six months.
Managing your money
Managing your money
27 September 2023
3 creative ways to use your international debit card
Managing your money
28 August 2023
When traditional and fintech banking meet
In a world where speed of access is paramount, fintech banking solutions have attracted new generations of customers. But as regulatory requirements increase, easy access is giving way to unexpected hurdles down the line when regulators come calling.
Managing your money
21 July 2023
Protect your capital with this foreign exchange hack
Retaining the buying power of one’s capital is a constant challenge at the best of times, and even more so in an inflationary environment. Spare a thought for international banking clients who face the added hurdle of a weak or volatile currency.
Managing your money
28 April 2022
Is COVID the big reset the world needed?
As the world considers what a post-COVID future holds, this is also a time for reflecting on how our world has changed. From an investor point of view, navigating the new normal demands that you look to how these changes are going to influence our lives in the years to come.
Travelling & Relocation
Estate & Succession Planning
Estate & Succession Planning
8 September 2023
More than money and assets: what makes an effective succession plan
Estate & Succession Planning
24 July 2023
A cautionary tale on the role of the protector
The story of the X-trust is worth sharing. It started like any other story about a trust with a protector. The late settlor, Ms Goodness, with sound intentions appointed a protector to the discretionary trust that she settled. The protector, an accountant by profession that was well known to her, called Rudy, was an Australian resident. Ms Goodness did not have any children, and the beneficiaries of the trust as per the trust instrument were her nephews and nieces. Her desire for her nephews and nieces to benefit was also expressed in her letter of wishes that the trustee held on record.
Estate & Succession Planning
21 June 2023
Offshore Trusts: Preserving family wealth and building a family legacy
In an era of global connectivity and expanding investment opportunities, high net-worth families are increasingly considering offshore trusts to preserve their wealth and ensure a legacy for their future generations, writes Standard Bank International Fiduciary Services’ Nitrisha Doorasamy.
Estate & Succession Planning
19 June 2023
Rolling with the Punches
Love, hate, happiness, anger, envy, pride, and fear are just a few of the emotions that families deal with on a frequent basis. There is not a single individual, family, or culture that is immune to emotions or their consequences. Not only are emotions a constant around the world, but so too is their propensity to dictate a person’s decisions and their subsequent actions. We have all experienced instances, both professionally and personally, where we have seen people make emotional decisions void of logical reasoning. Such decisions may lead to a person’s judgement being clouded and, even within the closest of family groups, to potential family disputes.
International Banking 101
