ZÜRICH – Inflation is biting. Market volatility is eroding gains. For Switzerland's accredited investors and family offices, the traditional playbook is broken. The quest for superior, risk-adjusted returns has led the smartest capital to a powerful solution: Zurich's...

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 alpha and...

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...

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...

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 $10 billion in...

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...

Let's cut through the private markets' noise. You're accredited. You've met FINMA's bar. Congratulations – now what? Truth bomb: That shiny accreditation status isn't your golden ticket. It's merely your backstage pass. And right now, you might be standing in the VIP...

"The difference between a business that grows and one that stalls isn't ambition. It's liquidity." — A common truth in trade finance There's a moment every ambitious business faces. You've built the relationships. The opportunity is real. The project is viable. But...

It started with a contractor in Mumbai. He had landed the deal of a lifetime—a new airport terminal, backed by the Indian government, with a project value north of $300 million. He had the team. He had the equipment. He had the track record. But he didn’t have the one...