From ZKB to Iraq fund impresario: Thomas Hugger’s frontier markets journey

Dirk Klee joined Bitcoin Suisse as CEO in April. He discusses the future of cryptocurrency and his career. Topics include leading UBS WM's digital transformation as COO, driving the adoption of ETFs and taking a 40% pay cut to exit the legal profession.

Globalance Bank is a Zurich based private bank focused on sustainability. Founder Reto Ringger discusses its business model, the banking industry’s lack of understanding of climate change, the difficulty of acquiring clients in the early days of sustainable investing and the forced sale of his former company RobecoSAM.

UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan was unable to be openly gay in his earlier career. He discusses striking changes in attitudes and the role of his employer and its CEO Ralph Hamers. Donovan also explains why LGBTQ+ people may need specialised investment advice and how their cause…

Ex-GAM investment solutions head Larry Hatheway discusses his asset management career and his attempts to bridge the political divide in his native USA with Jackson Hole Economics, a non-profit ‘action tank’ he launched with former GAM CEO Alexander Friedman. Other topics include what Switzerland’s tradition of direct democracy can teach…

Klaus Wellershoff, former chief economist of UBS and founder of Wellershoff & Partners, talks leaving UBS, why he would not want to lead his company into an IPO and why you should not be afraid of him.