The Bulletin with UBS

Kieran Ganesh, Head of Investment Communications at UBS Global Wealth Management, dives into the new Global Entrepreneur Report, revealing key insights from surveyed entrepreneurs. He discusses their optimistic investment outlook amidst economic uncertainties and the emerging trend of entrepreneurs shifting towards venture capitalism. Ganesh emphasizes the importance of AI and sustainable practices for long-term growth while highlighting varying optimism levels across global markets, with US entrepreneurs leading the pack.

Insights on the future of women’s wealth from the Equality Lounge at The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Emma Wheeler, head of the Women’s Wealth programme at UBS Global Wealth Management, joins the show to discuss how to better unlock investment potential for female founders and to consider the role of women within the unprecedented transfer of wealth currently happening across genders and generations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The theme of The World Economic Forum annual meeting this year was “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age”. UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan joins us to look back on the week and to discuss the threat posed by “scapegoat economics”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We explore the latest edition of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of billionaire wealth. The 10th iteration tracks the wealth of more than 2,500 billionaires across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. As part of its research, UBS also conducted an online survey of the views of a sample of billionaire clients across the world. So what are some of the key discoveries? We discuss the report with Maximilian Kunkel, chief investment officer for global family and institutional wealth at UBS Global Wealth Management.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special edition, UBS global wealth management chief investment officer Mark Haefele discusses his new book, ‘The New Rules of Investing: Essential Wealth Strategies for Turbulent Times’. Co-written with Richard C Morais, the volume outlines Haefele’s view that new developments in everything from global affairs to demographics and technology mean that we need to change the way we think about investing.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first programme of the new year we present a selection of interviews that the Monocle team conducted this past November on the margins of the UBS Australasia Conference in Sydney. UBS gathered industry leaders, policymakers and innovators at the event to explore how topics such as productivity, healthcare and technology affect the economy and investment landscape. Our show features Paul Donovan, chief economist in UBS Global Wealth Management; Renee Lo, Singapore-based regional director at Google; Lachlan Shaw, co-head of UBS mining research; and UBS analyst Richard Schellbach.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We explore the most recent edition of UBS Asset Management’s flagship thought-leadership paper, ‘The Red Thread’, which is focused on diversification. Long a central tenet of investment theory, many assumptions about the strategy have been tested of late due to the dominance of the so-called “Magnificent Seven” tech companies. Our panel is Barry Gill, UBS Asset Management’s head of investments, Michele Gambera, head of strategic asset allocation, and Lucy Thomas, head of sustainable investing and impact.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raphael Güller is the co-founder and chief product officer of Sweep, and one of the inspirational leaders who UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries programme. Raphael is joined at Monocle’s HQ in Zürich by Tom Hall, global head of social impact at UBS, to discuss Sweep’s origin story, its involvement in this year’s UBS Pitch for Purpose event, and why it is important for UBS to champion organisations such as Sweep, which are driving solutions to the great challenges of the day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We mark the occasion by hearing from Tom Hall, UBS global head of social impact and CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation Network, and from one of its partners who has already been driving change: Fabio Segura, co-CEO of the Jacobs Foundation. They discuss the importance of collaboration in delivering effective philanthropy, with a particular focus on how education can drive social equality and enduring transformational change.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Daniela Marino is the CEO and co-founder of skin-graft innovators Cutiss and one of the inspirational leaders that UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries programme. Marino is joined at Monocle’s HQ in Zürich by Tom Hall, global head of social impact at UBS, to discuss Cutiss’s success in this year’s UBS Pitch for Purpose event and why it’s important for UBS to champion individuals who are driving solutions to the great challenges of the day.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.