Evercore Wealth Management
Creative destruction, which the economist Joseph Schumpeter said is the essence of capitalism, is all around us – and it continues to accelerate. Technological changes are displacing old industries and creating opportunities that are magnified by globalization. Investors benefit from…
Among the many misperceptions around socially responsible investing, arguably the biggest is that investors in this sphere are any less focused on returns than their more traditional counterparts. This $21.4 trillion global discipline is increasingly effective, transparent, and measurable. As socially…
What does Brexit mean to private investors in the United States? Not quite as much as the media may suggest, at least not in the near term.
Recognizing change is difficult. It is far more comfortable to extrapolate into the future familiar assumptions about a conventional U.S. president-elect, a growing Chinese economy, controlled oil prices, union in Europe, and positive interest rates, even as evidence mounts to…
The United States has an infrastructure problem. Globally, the United States ranks 19th in the quality of its infrastructure. Quantifying infrastructure investment – and the related opportunities and risks – is a challenge, but is critically important in this election…
Editor’s note: Evercore Wealth Management supplements its core investment capabilities with carefully selected external funds across the range of the firm’s asset classes.
Invest with a long-term horizon. That’s easier said than done in markets saturated with news coverage, but it’s important to resist the influence of short-term gyrations in the markets.
There can be little doubt that computers, robotic technologies and other forms of job automation have been getting far more capable, and that as this trend continues, more workers are certain to be displaced in the relatively near future.
As returns in traditional stock and bond markets struggle to live up to past experience, adding different return streams to portfolios makes sense. In addition, assets that zig when other markets zag, as uncorrelated assets are meant to, assets provide…