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  • UBP Appoints New Chief Investment Officer

    UBP Appoints New Chief Investment Officer

    The interest rate hike in emerging markets has started much earlier than in the OECD area. Switzerland’s Union Bancaire Privee is responding to this with two appointments.

    Sergio Trigo Paz has been appointed Chief Investment Officer at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), according to a media release.

    Paz was head of emerging markets at Blackrock for 10 years until March of this year. He is based in London and heads a team of nine, which are spread across London, Zurich, and Hong Kong.

    UPB also appointed Soledad Rocio Acoroni as a portfolio manager who will join the firm in Zurich, coming from Larrain Vial AM in Chile.

    There, as portfolio manager, she handled strategies in Latin American corporate securities, ESG strategies in sovereign and corporate bonds issued in the region with low carbon footprints, and strategies in Argentine government and corporate bonds.

  • U&B supermarket, Hong Kong

    U&B supermarket, Hong Kong

    Within the confines of a limited budget, a Hong Kong design company has created a flexible hybrid space for new local grocery brand, U&B.

    “Low budget doesn’t mean no creativity,” says designer Wesley Liu of award-winning PplusP Designers.

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    He used mono materials and colour to transform the space in an engaging way for customers. The store’s interior embraces the elements of U&B’s brand logo, a shopping trolley, and its corporate colour, orange.

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    Rather than a traditional white ceiling, it is tangerine and left bare to complement the concrete flooring and generate the feeling of unprocessed surroundings. This is further enhanced by unfinished plywood shelves with black metal highlights, and is in keeping with the store’s non-luxury products.

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    All the display units are movable, which gives a great amount of flexibility for layout in the store. Track mounting kits on two sides of the wall panels can be used for suspended display systems.

    Wooden frames at the entrance are used for decoration or seasonal promotions, rather like a window display.

    These unified and simple elements encourage customers to concentrate on the products.

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    PPlusP Designers leader Wesley Liu handled the design of the Whampoa Garden, Hung Hum, store. The design company’s team includes architects, interior designers and graphic artists, providing a range of multidisciplinary services for art installations, corporate design, hotels, hospitality, restaurants and retail.

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