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
Nobel perspectives: Michael Kremer
To help address the big questions that shape our world, UBS has sought out a number of Nobel laureates in the Economic Sciences to ask them to share insights and discuss their research. This week we hear from Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics…
The art market: a special edition
The first in a season of special programmes exploring shifts and trends in the art market – and the impact of the global pandemic. We’ll attempt to answer the big questions confronting the industry and hear from key figures navigating the crisis and beyond: from gallerists to fair directors, from…
Sustainable investing after Covid-19
A new UBS report identifies five SI trends arising as a consequence of coronavirus. Two of its authors explain how the crisis has underscored the relevance of ESG (environmental, social and governance) considerations and how those trends will shape the longer-term sustainable-investing landscape.
Sergio Ermotti in conversation with Tyler Brûlé
Sergio Ermotti has steered Swiss multinational UBS since 2011, making him the bank’s longest-serving CEO. During that time he has led the firm through economic headwinds and a major restructuring of its private banking division with a steady hand. When coronavirus struck, and many small and medium-sized enterprises in Switzerland…
Smart investment after coronavirus
As the market focuses on the pace of recovery, investors need to consider the structural transformations being driven by this public-health crisis. Our panel explain how investors can manage higher taxation, financial repression and moderately higher inflation, along with populism and protectionism, while navigating the transitions from global to local…
UBS Global Visionaries: Jean Nehme, Digital Surgery
This week we are joined by another of the inspirational thought leaders and innovators who UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries programme. This time it’s the turn of Jean Nehme, co-founder of Digital Surgery. Now part of medical technology leader Medtronic, Jean’s mission is to use digital technology…
Healthcare and pharma after the pandemic
What might be the enduring impact of the pandemic on healthcare delivery? Our panel discusses whether the digitisation of the space will accelerate further. We’ll also look at diagnostics, telemedicine and pharmaceuticals, including the issue of vaccines, and discuss the risks inherent in developing new products and technologies.
UBS Global Visionaries: Christina Dean, The R Collective
We talk to another of the inspirational thought leaders and innovators supported and celebrated by UBS through its Global Visionaries programme. Christina Dean is the founder of The R Collective, an upcycled-fashion brand that uses luxury labels’ textile waste to make sustainable clothing.
By train or by plane?
This is the traveller’s dilemma after Covid-19 – particularly against a backdrop of broader climate-change concerns. We learn how the pandemic is showing industrialised countries what clean air means and how healthier populations cope better with disease. Two of the key authors of a recent UBS Global Research Q-Series piece…
The pandemic and the developing world
This week we are joined by two of the inspirational thought leaders and innovators who UBS supports through its Global Visionaries programme to discuss the potential impact of the coronavirus outbreak on developing countries.
