UBS Group AG said client sentiment remains positive but cautious despite geopolitical uncertainties and market turmoil, according to the bank’s co-presidents of global wealth management Iqbal Khan and Robert Karofsky . “The market is extremely resilient. Clients remain engaged but cautious and overall activity remains healthy,” Karofsky said at an investor conference on Thursday. “The market is pr...
UBS Group AG said client sentiment remains positive but cautious despite geopolitical uncertainties and market turmoil, according to the bank’s co-presidents of global wealth management Iqbal Khan and Robert Karofsky . “The market is extremely resilient. Clients remain engaged but cautious and overall activity remains healthy,” Karofsky said at an investor conference on Thursday. “The market is pricing out some sort of resolution in the Middle-East,” he added. The commentary by one of the world’s biggest wealth managers is adding to a list of banks highlighting positive client activity despite inflation fears and other shock events including turmoil in private markets. “We continue to see demand for alternatives although shifting within the whole universe of alternatives,” Khan said. “We clearly saw more demand for hedge funds and multi-strats as much as continued demand for private equity,” he said, adding that interest in private credit has faded. With private credit funds being in the spotlight in recent months, suffering large outflows, there are signs of a spillover to other asset classes within private markets. The most recent fallout among alternative asset managers has been Swiss private equity house Partners Group. The alternative asset manager recently gated a fund amid rising redemption requests. UBS is one of the largest limited partners in the world and is distributing private-market products across the globe to wealthy individuals and institutional investors. The bank said in April that its balance sheet exposure to private credit is relatively low.