EXPERIENCED BANKING ANALYSTS such as Morgan Stanley’s Huw van Steenis and Bruce Hamilton are not generally given to hyperbole. But when they visited Switzerland earlier this summer they were clearly struck by how profoundly the events of the past year had affected the private banking industry. “We think there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for [Julius] Baer and a number of the smaller private banks to take share from large global integrated players that have suffered in the market turmoil,” van Steenis and Hamilton wrote.
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“We’ve had the crisis, and we have certainly benefited from the safe-haven effect that it has caused. |
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