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Can AI improve lives around the world?
#508 01 Jul 2024

Can AI improve lives around the world?

Like other game-changing technologies before it, artificial intelligence is expected to unleash new wealth creation, resource reallocation and societal change. But the precise forms that this will take – and at what speed – is difficult to predict. Richard Mylles, the author of a new UBS Sustainability and Impact Institute…

UK general election preview
#507 24 Jun 2024

UK general election preview

The UK goes to the polls on 4 July for a hotly anticipated general election. With manifestos being published and the usual media circus in full flow, we take a look at some of the key economic questions that are dominating the agenda ahead of the decisive day at the…

Transitioning agrifood from sustainability liability to asset
#506 17 Jun 2024

Transitioning agrifood from sustainability liability to asset

Today’s agrifood industry produces enough calories to feed the global population but it creates negative externalities across the climate, nature and health sectors. Global sustainability goals have changed what crops the agrifood industry grows and how. Such dynamics leave the sector structurally unprepared to deliver on these goals. However, deploying…

Art Basel Special
#505 10 Jun 2024

Art Basel Special

The director of Art Basel in Basel, Maike Cruse, joins us to reveal how the fair is celebrating 30 years of collaboration with global lead partner UBS. Together they commissioned artist Petrit Halilaj who has created a special installation for the façade of the former Hotel Merian. Plus: UBS Group…

Highlights from the UBS Asian Investment Conference 2024
#504 03 Jun 2024

Highlights from the UBS Asian Investment Conference 2024

This special edition recorded at the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong features a selection of fascinating conversations and insights we recorded at our Monocle pop-up studio at the Four Seasons. Featuring Professor Paul Romer, Naomi Schiff, Vivian Siu, Dr Jordan Nguyen, Dr Amy Kruse, Martin Yule and Richard…

#503 27 May 2024

UBS Global Family Office Report 2024

The 2024 edition of the annual GFO report was compiled entirely in-house for the fifth year and provides the world’s largest and most comprehensive study of single family offices. UBS surveyed 320 clients globally in the first quarter and the online survey methodology was distributed to over 30 markets worldwide.…

Invest in renewable infrastructure
#502 20 May 2024

Invest in renewable infrastructure

Renewables account for the majority of energy capacity additions globally, and governments worldwide have recently committed to triple renewables by 2030. Our UBS panellists explain how private infrastructure offers an attractive opportunity for investment as an effective portfolio diversifier and a stable source of income and returns. With Antonia Sariyska…

#501 13 May 2024

Living well till 100

Cutting-edge medical technology, advances in AI and a sharper focus on healthier living mean that reaching the age of 100 could one day be the norm. But can our financial health survive just as long? UBS CIO equity strategist Wen Ching joins the show from Singapore to explain how smart…

#500 06 May 2024

ElectionWatch 2024: Implications of the US election for Europe

The latest instalment in our ElectionWatch series, based on reports published by the CIO of UBS Global Wealth Management. The reports look ahead to November’s potentially seismic general election in the US and consider its impact across sectors, themes and geographies. In today’s edition, Dean Turner and Thomas Wacker consider…

The future of artificial intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton and De Kai
#499 29 Apr 2024

The future of artificial intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton and De Kai

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, discusses the future of artificial intelligence with his former collaborator De Kai in a special edition of the programme recorded at the UBS Greater China Conference earlier this year. Does the rise of “artificial general intelligence” threaten…

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