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Business with impact
#156 01 Oct 2017

Business with impact

Continuing our exploration of sustainability and impact investing, we put corporate societal responsibility in the spotlight. Our panel unpacks the findings of the recent UBS Wealth Management CIO whitepaper ‘Business with Impact: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Societal Returns’.

#155 24 Sep 2017

Sustainable and impact investing

Highlights from a recent UBS global roundtable that saw group experts present simultaneously in London, Zürich and New York. This is a sector that has doubled in size in recent years, hence all the UBS business divisions were represented as the panel discussed everything from group product development to external…

Flying solo: the path to pilotless planes
#154 17 Sep 2017

Flying solo: the path to pilotless planes

A UBS Q-Series report on pilotless flight has made some compelling conclusions. We will be unpacking the report in detail with its two leading analysts, learning how reducing the intervention of human pilots on aircraft can bring economic benefits and improved safety.

Germany votes
#153 10 Sep 2017

Germany votes

What’s at stake in this month’s German federal election – for the country, for European institutions, for investors and for the world?

Disruption in the insurance industry
#152 03 Sep 2017

Disruption in the insurance industry

The UBS wealth management CIO’s biannual Shifting Asia series identifies and explores a trend that will shape the future of markets and sectors in the years ahead. The third edition looks at technology disruption in the insurance industry.

Corporate profits
#151 27 Aug 2017

Corporate profits

Some investors are worried that stocks are getting expensive. But companies are continuing to bring in impressive profit growth. What’s driving this – and can it continue? Our panel guides us through all the main issues from strong earnings growth and how that continues to be supportive of revenue and…

Risk and reward
#150 20 Aug 2017

Risk and reward

This week we look toward the risk horizon to consider the shifting sands of geopolitics. We’ll assess how events – particularly regarding North Korea – are reshaping the narrative and the risk profile. We’ll also consider what the investment implications are of rising geopolitical risk across the globe and ask…

Is there a bond-market bubble?
#149 13 Aug 2017

Is there a bond-market bubble?

The former Fed chair Alan Greenspan certainly thinks so, and he’s been warning that it’s set to burst. Could he be right? Our expert panel run the rule over all the issues shaping the landscape, from long-term interest rates (which Greenspan thinks are unsustainably low) to the potential for stagflation…

The euro: five years on
#148 06 Aug 2017

The euro: five years on

We take the temperature of the eurozone, five years after Mario Draghi’s pivotal speech in which he pledged to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. Our experts gauge the pace of change in the interim, ask what still needs to be done and identify the key drivers for…

Inflation
#147 30 Jul 2017

Inflation

Inflation data has been weak around the US, eurozone and UK recently. But is that the real picture? What does the situation mean for central banks – and can they keep monetary policies easy for longer?

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