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Art Basel Hong Kong special
Global lead partner UBS has been celebrating the return of the fair with a programme to drive engagement and increase access to art in the local community. We learn more about how UBS drives its programmes of public engagement, hear from the director of the fair and speak to the…
The UBS Greater China Conference part III: China and the Middle East
We wrap up our highlights from UBS’s annual flagship event, the 23rd edition of which took place in January with a theme of ‘The Way Ahead’. For this programme, UBS APAC head of research Martin Yule asks Nasser Saidi, former chief economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the…
What happened at the National People’s Congress?
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress have both taken place this week. As well as economic targets and macro-policy setting, this year’s editions involved the most extensive government reshuffle in a decade or more. UBS experts Bhanu Baweja and Yifan Hu join us to discuss…
International Women’s Day Special
To mark International Women’s Day, we dive into a new report from the UBS CIO entitled ‘Women and Investing: Planning for Your Legacy’. The report trains a lens on the goal of legacy: how women investors define it, the best allocation of resources to meet those objectives and the importance…
What’s the problem with GDP?
UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan joins the show to discuss some of the perennial issues with GDP as a metric and how the fourth industrial revolution is upending its primacy as a measure of growth.
The Ukraine Relief Fund – one year on
A special programme marking the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the creation of the Ukraine Relief Fund by the UBS Optimus Foundation: an extraordinary mobilisation of capital and a triumph of collaboration. With us to reflect on its prospects and imperatives for the future are the CEO of…
The UBS Greater China Conference part II: Global economic outlook
Further highlights from UBS’s annual flagship event, the 23rd edition of which took place last month with the theme, ‘The Way Ahead’. UBS global chief economist Arend Kapteyn, chief European economist Reinhard Cluse, their US counterpart Jonathan Pingle and head of Asia economics Tao Wang discuss the global economic and…
The UBS Female Founder Award
How best to close the ‘funding gap’ that exists between female entrepreneurs and their male counterparts? We discuss the winner of the UBS Female Founder Award and ask how this recognition is helping to bridge the gap and move the needle towards a more equitable distribution of funding and opportunities.…
Inflation weight-watching
UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan joins the show to explain why investors need to start ‘watching the weight’ of different parts of the constantly shifting inflation basket. Donovan tells us why increased spending on things like energy and durables in 2021 and 2022 increases those sectors’ importance…
Highlights from the UBS Greater China Conference part I: China’s technological ambitions
Bloomberg’s Lulu Yilun Chen discusses her new book, ‘Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition’ with UBS’s Kirsten Parker at the 2023 UBS Greater China Conference.
