by Brendan MacDonald | Sep 5, 2025 | Premium
By Taimour Zaman ZURICH – Let’s be direct. If you’re an accredited investor in Switzerland, your traditional portfolio is likely failing you. Bonds yield paltry returns, and public equities swing on the whims of global sentiment. The quest for stable, high...
by Brendan MacDonald | Aug 31, 2025 | Premium
By Taimour Zaman, Founder of AltFunds Global Fraud is as old as money itself. The faces change—from Charles Ponzi a century ago to Sam Bankman-Fried today—but the mechanics remain eerily familiar. Fraudsters thrive on the same weaknesses: urgency, ego, fear, and our...
by Brendan MacDonald | Aug 30, 2025 | Premium
What Philip R. Wood and Richard Werner can teach us about U.S. commercial real estate and China’s shadow banking collapse By Taimour Zaman, Founder of AltFunds Global Why Start Here? Walk through downtown Washington, D.C., or Boston today and you’ll see a new kind of...
by Brendan MacDonald | Aug 23, 2025 | Premium
How One Family Cracked the Code of Credit Creation There’s a dinner party question that separates truly wealthy families from merely rich ones: “Do you know how banks actually make money?” Most family office principals—people managing $100 million to...
by Brendan MacDonald | Aug 2, 2025 | Premium
Let’s cut the textbook jargon. If you’re responsible for funding, liquidity, or growth at an institution – bank, pension fund, sovereign wealth, or corporate treasury – you already feel it: The air is getting thinner. $650 billion in institutional debt matures by...
