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The Evolving Role of Private Banks and Wealth Managers in Private Markets: The Global Shift Transforming the UHNW Landscape

Private markets are no longer an ancillary allocation in private wealth portfolios. Across key global wealth management hubs such as Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India, private markets have become core to the next generation of portfolio construction. The Evolving Role of Private Banks &Wealth Managers in…

February 17 2026
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Unveiling Digital Asset Dynamics: A Comprehensive Analysis and Review

The digital asset space, including cryptocurrencies and NFTs, has been marked by a rapid rise and ensuing turbulence. This whitepaper attempts to explore the past few years of crypto in order to explain the current landscape and offer insight into the future. / Unveiling Digital Asset Dynamics:A…

April 18 2024
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Building Up Career Capital

As young employees plot out their intended career trajectory and as more experienced employees review and update their career plans, they must not only accurately evaluate their personal skill set, but also anticipate how technological trends will reshape the economy and change the skill sets that are relevant and in-demand.

August 1 2023
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What to expect in FICC hiring in 2018

Toward the end of 2017, we interviewed a large number of market participants regarding 2018 prospects.

August 1 2023
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Impact Investing is no fad

The evolution of sustainable investing will not stop. Neither will demand for a new kind of hybrid talent. Well before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, mission-oriented “impact” investing was gathering steam.

August 1 2023
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Asset Management 2023

The asset management industry is experiencing significant growth with the global market estimated to be worth USD 373 billion in 2022 and is expected to exhibit a compound annual growth rate of 34.7% from 2023 to 2030, according to a report by Grand View Research.

May 30 2023
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PWM 2023

The future of Private Wealth Management, and its talent sector, looks uncharacteristically difficult to predict. Most metrics signify a startling boom in the size of the industry as a whole.

May 15 2023
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Talent Trends in Private Banking for the Twenty-Twenties

Here is an easy prediction to make: In this new decade ESG experts, technically agile bankers and female wealth advisors will be in high demand.

March 6 2023
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Healthcare IB: A Unique Sector

Options Group is uniquely positioned to provide our partners with best in class search and human capital advisory within Healthcare in Financial Services (HC in FS).

January 8 2023
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Generation Zoom – Hiring Junior Talent in a COVID World

The COVID-19 pandemic brought forth a different type of side effect for the junior talent of Wall Street; the opportunity to interview freely and explore external opportunities like never before.

October 1 2022
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Private Wealth Management – Changing Trends

As demographics shift and more millenials actively seek to invest, the wealth management industry has begun to experience a major change regarding the needs and interests of younger clients.

July 1 2022
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Blockchain isn’t coming for your business. It’s already here.

Most of us became aware of blockchain technology around the same time we began paying attention to the rapid growth of bitcoin.

June 1 2021
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Navigating The New Normal

The abrupt changes companies and employees experienced in March of 2020 were unlike anything ever felt in the modern workforce.

November 18 2020
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Should I Stay or Should I Go

Leaving a job is stressful under any circumstances. It is hard enough to do when everything else is status quo.

April 1 2020
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EU ESG Leadership is Big

In September of this year the President and CEO of State Street Global Advisors, Cyrus Taraporevala, stood up at an FT Forum on the Future of Asset Management and ticked off his list of ten changes he believes will define the practice of asset management in the next ten years.

December 14 2019
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IRFPs – An Entirely New Game

The insitutional asset management Request For Proposal (RFP) domain has traditionally been viewed as an administrative support function where the simple workarounds of this time-intensive process are conducted.

October 10 2019
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Seismic Shifts in Compensation Protocols

In 2019, New York has again solidified its position as a champion for equal pay rights by passing two new laws designed to close the gender wage gap.

September 25 2019
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The Future Regulatory Landscape EU vs UK

The global economy is a complex and dynamic system with countless uncertainties and innate unpredictability.

September 24 2019
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Fundamental Credit: The Good, The Bad & The Performance

Over the past year, credit managers were positioned for an opportunity set that has failed to materialize. In 2019, investment opportunities in distressed credit were limited.

August 14 2019
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FICC – 2019 State of Business – The New Normalcy

2018 was a disappointing year for the FICC (fixed income, currencies and commodities) business as a whole.

July 27 2019
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Buy-Side Equities – 2019 and Beyond

2019 is projected to be the strongest year that the hedge fund industry has seen in a decade, after having gained an average of 6% in the first six months, while the S&P jumped approximately 19% over the same time period.

July 16 2019
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What to Expect in Equities Hiring 2019

Equity Markets around the world are heavily focused on the near term impact of many geopolitical tensions including but not limited to trade wars.

June 1 2019
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The New Imperative for Recruiting Talent in PWM

Companies in every industry usually have one thing in common: they hire for the operating environment that used to be.

November 4 2018
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The Technology Revolution and the Future for the Modern Quant

In today’s world the financial industry is reinventing itself; once a junior banker relied on his or her talents such as charm, charisma and negotiation skills to win business with prospective clients.

September 25 2018
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The Current Digital Crisis of Confidence in Corporate Board Rooms

Technology is now the core of business growth as well as the major mechanism of disruption within sectors.

May 21 2018
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What to Expect in PWM Hiring in 2018

Private banking enjoyed a relatively quiet year in 2017 which allowed it to focus on trimming costs while focusing on technologies to deliver greater service.

February 20 2018
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A Long and Short-Term View of Brexit: Options Group Weighs In

The effects of Brexit appear to be wide-ranging, particularly in the business sector where thousands of companies are today grappling with how to handle both its short and long term implications.

February 10 2018
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What to expect in equities hiring in 2018

Equity markets around the world remain bullish; and many market participants believe that equity markets will continue to rise throughout 2018.

January 18 2018

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