In this interview, we sit down with Mr Maxim Safonov, one of the co-founders of a pioneering asset management company with footprints in both Dubai and Almaty to explore the vision, challenges, and philosophies shaping wealth management in today’s complex global landscape.

If there is any truth in our forward-looking assumptions, then the years ahead are likely to be eventful—and, for better or worse, entertaining. It feels as if we are slowly being hauled up the first slope of a roller coaster: the tension builds, the mechanism creaks, and you are fully aware that escape is no longer an option. At best, you can change seats before gravity takes over. After all, we are firmly locked on planet Earth, inside a deeply interconnected globalised eco

Preamble: To Waste or not To Waste The life of a human being is inseparable from waste production — there’s no question about it. The richer, more sophisticated and advanced a society becomes, the higher the correlation with the waste it produces. So waste production seems to be an inevitable evil. The aim, then, must be to reduce the amount of waste and thereby limit the damage inflicted on the environment. Yet making money from waste would have sounded bizarre in the times