The Bulletin with UBS
Insights from leading minds on global finance. Go beyond headlines for expert analysis on economic trends and key financial stories.
Latest Episodes
Future of Earth: investing in solutions for a more sustainable planet
We discuss a new report from the UBS Global Wealth Management CIO, published on Earth Day. Current standards of living and overall levels of consumption are unsustainable in relation to the planet’s finite resources. The Future of Earth report explores the financial, social and environmental benefits of investing in a…
Banking for Impact
Ahead of the launch of a new paper, UBS’s Angela Wiebeck is joined by special guests from Harvard Business School and Impact Institute to discuss the Banking for Impact group. This collaboration recognises that the financial services sector is uniquely well placed to lead in the creation of a common…
Impact investing
A special programme exploring the growth of impact investing and its increasing importance within sustainable finance. Alongside guests from UBS (who talk about the bank’s remarkable journey towards meeting its own hugely ambitious impact-investing commitments), we’ll meet some of its key partners, including mutual fund Federated Hermes and the venture…
Positioning for a post-pandemic world
We explore the UBS Global Wealth Management CIO’s second-quarter outlook, which considers how investors should be positioning for a post-pandemic world. The editor in chief of the report and the co-head of global asset allocation in the UBS WM CIO join the programme to discuss navigating the high growth, rising…
The Art Market Report 2021
Art Basel and UBS have published their fifth annual Global Art Market Report, authored by the renowned cultural economist Clare McAndrew. McAndrew joins Noah Horowitz, Americas director at Art Basel, and UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan to discuss the findings. The report integrates insight from a recent…
Seeds of Change
UBS marks the United Nations International Day of Forests by publishing a paper, ‘Seeds of Change’, exploring UN Sustainable Development Goal 15: “Life on Land”. The report unpacks the challenge presented to the planet by a reduction in forest cover, habitats and diversity, and considers how philanthropists and investors can…
Investing in China
In the past 20 years, China’s economy has grown fivefold and its equity market capitalisation has increased by 25 times. Despite this, many global investors are significantly underallocated in China relative to its weight in global benchmarks, whether due to insufficient understanding of the opportunity and market complexity, or other…
How to close the funding gap?
A new report from UBS Global Wealth Management reveals a shocking funding gap between investors and female entrepreneurs. Around the world, they receive less funding than their male counterparts and the reality is even more pronounced for women of colour and those in developing countries. As a result of the…
Investing in private markets
Two of the authors of a new report from the Chief Investment Office of UBS Global Wealth Management explain how private markets fit into a liquidity, longevity, legacy approach to investment and discuss how a lower-return environment is driving investor appetites for alternative instruments.
Rising Gen
A special roundtable discussion exploring a recently launched UBS strategic client segment in the US called “Rising Gen”. Giselle Rivera, head of Rising Gen, and Arminé Babayan, a financial adviser serving these clients across technology, entertainment and the start-up world, explain why the generation of investors under 40 is resilient,…
