insights.

We look at July’s parliamentary election in Japan, the implications for monetary policy, sovereign bond yields and the equity market. 

AI is revolutionising wildfire response through early detection, prediction, and modelling—offering scalable, high-impact solutions to a growing global threat.

The world’s oceans are one of our most precious natural resources and a vital carbon sink. On World Oceans Day 2025 we look at how we can build a sustainable ‘blue economy’ that creates jobs and growth while restoring marine ecosystems.

In a fragmented, multipolar world, long-term equity investments must reflect evolving geopolitical dynamics. Six thematic strategies—longevity, new gen, technology, net zero, nature, and infrastructure—offer focussed, adaptive opportunities amid structural shifts.

As climate disasters surge, investors face new risks – but also a chance to back the sectors leading the transition to a more resilient, low-carbon world.

With markets repricing global assets after a volatile first half of the year, we offer our macroeconomic and asset class expectations for the rest of 2025. 

Wealth is changing hands and priorities. Lombard Odier Italy’s Managing Director, Alberica Brivio Sforza, explores this shift, the rise of women investors, and how values and ESG are reshaping family wealth.

Sabine Heller and Nannette Hechler-Fayd’herbe tell finews.first why entrepreneurs should avoid viewing their retirement planning in isolation from the rest of their wealth.