All articles by Douglas Blakey

Douglas Blakey

Strategic capital in a fragmented world: Royal Funds chairman Sertan Ayçiçek on geopolitics, private wealth and the future of investment

Sertan Ayçiçek tells PBI’s Douglas Blakey that the central question
is simple: when geopolitics increasingly affects markets, supply chains, regulation and strategic industries, what should private capital be looking at beyond traditional financial analysis?

From foresight to investability: What Europe’s 25 technology signals tell investors

Oleg Khusaenov discusses what happens when emerging technology signals move from European innovation reports into the reality of private investment

Tokenisation is coming to private wealth. Who actually owns the asset?

Elisenda Fàbrega examines an issue that is becoming increasingly important as tokenised products move into private wealth – when a client buys a tokenised asset, what do they actually own?

A hawk is born

Rupert Thompson’s weekly investment commentary analyses market reactions to recent events and identifies upcoming market trends in global markets, including equities, fixed income and FX

Private wealth is already 24/7. Why isn’t settlement?

Ryan Kirkley discusses the growing disconnect between how global private wealth operates today and the infrastructure underneath it

How family offices should think about AI beyond the public markets

Courtney Olujobi explores why AI should be considered as a broader capital allocation question, particularly as family offices look across private markets, direct investments and specialist managers

Testing times for US Treasuries and their Secretary

Rupert Thompson’s weekly investment commentary analyses market reactions to recent events and identifies upcoming market trends in global markets, including equities, fixed income and FX

Summer torpor

Rupert Thompson’s weekly investment commentary analyses market reactions to recent events and identifies upcoming market trends in global markets, including equities, fixed income and FX

A ray of sunshine

Rupert Thompson’s weekly investment commentary analyses market reactions to recent events and identifies upcoming market trends in global markets, including equities, fixed income and FX

The impact of the tech correction on EM allocation

The recent correction across AI-related stocks begs the question: a pause in the rally or the start of a broader rotation away from the sector? Mark Martyrossian explores what a pullback could mean