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Market View at Glance

The year 2022 will be remember as a painful year for investors. It began with optimism and rapidly faded after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has shaken the post-Cold War geopolitical order and roiled global markets. In the wake of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea

Artificial Intelligence is here. Is Humankind Prepared for this New Era?

We are now living in a new revolution and the world is changing fast. Concepts such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, DeFi, Metaverse, Web3, etc., are MegaTrends that are provoking significant changes and are transforming industries, economies and societies. Most think that this will be a process that will happen over

2023: The Year of Generative AI

Until what seemed like just a minute ago, "Generative AI" was a term unfamiliar to most, except to researchers, developers, and businesses anxious to commercialize this branch of artificial intelligence, but take a gander at the recent news cycle, and it's an entirely different story. A recent article in Time

AI is Transforming Business Models

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Is it robots taking over? Is it humans being displaced of white-collar jobs that were regarded as immune to automatization? Well, in my view, it's none of those—at least not for now. AI, more precisely, Applied-AI, is best understood as a tool to transform

Does ChatGPT Knows How to Beat the Stock Market?

What happens when you ask the hottest AI tool in the world the ultimate investment question? Here are the five questions Regius Magazine asked and full responses from ChatGPT: REGIUS MAGAZINE: Define MegaTrends: CHATGPT: Megatrends refer to large, overarching patterns or shifts in social, economic, technological, and environmental spheres that

At the Crossroad: Institutional Allocation in Crypto Assets in the Post-FTX Era

| TRILLION-DOLLAR CLUB OF NEW SIF VC Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds that are often in the media's spotlight. But more and more a new group of sovereign investment funds (SIFs), which

Blockchain Investor, Blockchain Investee: Governance is Your Only Ally!

| BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTO: OPPORTUNITIES, AND RISKS, ARE ALIVE AND KICKING The blockchain- and crypto space is an exciting space to be in, both as an investor and as an investee company, you are right at the front of the new world! However, it also bears huge risks as 2022 has

Crypto Is Dead, Long Live Crypto!

On the surface, 2022 may have been crypto’s worst year yet. Bitcoin is down more than 75% from its highs the year prior while on the tail end, some applications sit idle with few users and teams have abandoned projects. Unchecked systemic leverage and risk resulted in the collapse

Private Cryptocurrencies: Supplanting Fiat Currencies Is Unlikely

The world of investing in crypto assets has been driven in part by a view that the decentralization and trustless transaction basis of distributed ledgers and cryptographic verification of anonymous trades would allow finance to escape the oversight of government, empower individual savers/investors, and supplant traditional money. A new

Are Hedge Funds Delivering Alpha?

| HEDGED FUNDS IN A NUTSHELL A hedge fund is an actively managed fund that generally offers an unconstrained investment mandate and pools capital from accredited investors or institutional investors. Hedge fund managers are actively seeking investment opportunities to generate “alpha” (returns in excess of overall market levels), while also protecting

Silver Economy: Investing for Population Aging

At the heart of our Supertrend Silver economy lies the projection that the world’s senior population will double to more than two billion by 2050. This shift will create demand but also unearth challenges that call for innovative solutions – in the healthcare, insurance, consumer and property markets. And while

Classic Cars: On a Highway to the Future

Coming out of the pandemic, the classic car market not only strongly recovered, but also accelerated a ground-breaking transformation with new digital auction platforms gaining important market share, new categories of cars becoming “instant classics” and new collectors joining the classic car market. Collecting cars is often presented as an

Market View at Glance

So far, 2022 has been a painful year for investors and the 2023 outlook is uncertain. The year began with optimism and gradually faded after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war. On January 3rd, 2022, the S&P 500 index hit an all-time high of 4,797 and traded at

Understanding the Metaverse: A Guide to the Next Gen Internet

The first vision and naming of the metaverse originated in the science fiction novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson in 1992. In it, the metaverse was a shared muliplayer online game made available over the world’s fibre optics network and projected onto virtual reality goggles. Users could control avatars

Shining a Light: The KNGS ETF

KNGS invests in compounders: cashflow generating companies that are positioned to benefit from key megatrends. Cantwell explains, “our strategy is simple, but difficult to execute. We look for the same characteristics that made businesses like Amazon and Google successful over the past two decades.” Robert gave us the three megatrends

Special Focus: Non-Fungible Tokens

The Year 2021 witnessed the rise of a new class of collectibles – digitacollectibles – more broadly known as non-fungible tokens or NFTs. This article reviews key categories among NFTs and the state of the market. After a stabilization phase in early 2022, we expect the NFT sector to continue growing in

Exclusive Interview with Raj Sisodia: Part 2 of 2

It is my privilege to have an exclusive interview with Raj Sisodia, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey. On behalf of Regius Magazine, I would like to express my gratitude to Raj Sisodia for taking the time

Estate Planning to Build Lasting Legacies: A European Perspective

Estate planning involves preserving wealth and the transition to following generations. However, wealth owners have additional questions about ensuring family cohesion and creating a legacy over generations. A short-term approach will not meet these needs, so families must establish a sound framework with a long-term focus. In doing so, they

The Two Secrets of Preserving Wealth & Driving Continued Success over Multiple Generations

Why is it that some of the world’s wealthiest families have known success over three, four, five generations or more, while others—in fact most ultra-wealthy families—have seen their wealth dissipated more quickly; have seen their business or philanthropic enterprise end after only a generation or two; have

The Future of Leadership is Integral In-Formed by Unity

“At this most pivotal moment in human history, the challenge leaders face is way beyond VUCA. The challenge for leaders today is to righten civilization, to literally re-invent society from the ground up; from zero point; from first principle—Unity. The current order is imploding. It no longer works. We

Express Yourself, the Role & Benefits of a Letter Wishes

Whether through hard work, intelligence, fate, fortune, or a combination of some or all of these, you have amassed substantial wealth and what you hope will be a lasting financial legacy for your children and succeeding generations. To accomplish the goal of an orderly succession of your wealth, you opt

Dynastic Foreign Grantor Trust Planning for Foreign Families with U.S. Members

Foreign individuals with U.S. family members have a unique opportunity to grow and transfer wealth to those family members in trust. This is because the U.S. tax system generally does not reach foreign entities owned by foreign individuals, except for such entities’ U.S.-source income and income

Life Insurance: Protect your Wealth & Legacy

The past two years have been rife with uncertainty and disruption. The spread of the pandemic and the accompanying federal response altered everything from market outcomes, supply chain fluidity, to nearly every aspect of our daily lives. We emerge from these challenges with a renewed awareness of our own fragility

The Best Approach to Wealth Transfer

As parents, we struggle with how to educate and empower our children to become self-motivated and resilient. If we add family wealth and business into the equation, the matter often becomes even more complex. Transferring both values and wealth is a complicated matter. Over the past 20 years, one of