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How to close the funding gap?
#335 08 Mar 2021

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…

#334 01 Mar 2021

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
#333 22 Feb 2021

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,…

#332 15 Feb 2021

Diversity and equality

The lead author of a freshly published report looking at longer term investments discusses its conclusions with the chief economist of UBS Wealth Management and the CEO for the UK & Jersey. Diversity and economic inequalities have come to the fore following social and political flashpoints in advanced economies and…

#331 08 Feb 2021

Highlights from the UBS GCC. Part 1: the economy of wellness

The UBS Greater China Conference (GCC) 2021 took place last month, featuring a packed schedule of presentations from sector experts and thought leaders from across the world. In the coming weeks on this programme we’ll be looking back at the GCC to bring you insights and highlights, starting with a…

#330 01 Feb 2021

Shaping sustainable finance

A new UBS paper on the trends that are set to shape sustainable finance in 2021, published this week for the WEF’s Davos Agenda (virtual) meetings, addresses challenges linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. While UBS has been at the forefront of sustainable finance for more than 20 years, 2020 proved…

The UBS x Luminary Fellowship Program
#329 25 Jan 2021

The UBS x Luminary Fellowship Program

Founder and CEO of Luminary, Cate Luzio (pictured), and Carey Shuffman, head of the Women’s Strategic Client Segment in UBS, discuss the UBS x Luminary Fellowship Program, which aims to support businesses owned by women of colour who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. It does so by delivering…

#328 18 Jan 2021

Stranded assets

There is a growing schism between growth assets (high tech, resilient, high sustainability rating) and value assets (low tech, cyclical, low sustainability rating); it’s as though 90 per cent of investors were exclusively interested in owning 10 per cent of assets. But who will buy and manage these stranded assets…

#327 11 Jan 2021

Leisure and hospitality trends

Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, investors are facing a challenge of unprecedented near-term sales declines. The head of UBS’s travel and leisure equity research team in Europe considers whether corporates can deliver sufficient short-term damage control to enable investors in this space to look at the longer term with…

#326 04 Jan 2021

European luxury-sector trends

What are the prospects of a return to normal in the European luxury sector this year? UBS’s head of European luxury goods is here to explain how this sector proved its premium valuation in a turbulent year. Plus: what might the risks associated with that return to normal look like…

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