We sit down with the fourth-generation vice chairman of the board and the newly installed CEO of Audemars Piguet, one of Switzerland’s most iconic watch brands, and discuss what it’s like to lead a family company with a long history and high ambitions for the future. Olivier Audemars, who represents the fourth generation of the founding families, explains how he feels “more a notion of stewardship than ownership”, whilst chief executive Ilaria Resta sets out her strategies for guiding the watch brand into its next successful chapter.

Ryuichiro Masuda is the fifth-generation owner and president of Masuda Sake Company, one of Japan’s most storied and revered sake breweries. In this interview, he discusses how he balances tradition with innovation, and how he and his family are leading the rebuilding efforts after a powerful earthquake struck the region in early 2024. He also explains how the business, which was founded way back in 1893, has evolved over the decades and how it will continue to adapt and develop, even whilst being passed on to the next generation.

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Jeremy Gutsche has built a career on looking for – and finding – the next big thing. He is the founder of TrendHunter.com, the world’s largest, most popular trend website, and the author of a number of books, including Create the Future: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking. Artificial intelligence has transformed how his company operates, as he explains in this interview. He also discusses the dramatic changes that AI is going to bring about as it enables us to automate huge swathes of our everyday lives and working practices.

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The French biochemist and author Jessie Inchauspé has made a name for herself as the Glucose Goddess by pioneering techniques for managing blood sugar levels. In this conversation, she explains how a serious accident in her teens first led her to look into this area of physiology. She also outlines two of the diet “hacks” she most often recommends and discusses how, at a societal level, we’re faced with more of a “food landscape problem” than an “information problem”.

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With a career spanning the UN and investment banking, Nader Mousavizadeh is an expert in geopolitics and how they impact global markets. Today he is the CEO and founding partner of Macro Advisory Partners, which advises investors, companies and governments on these topics and more. Here, he argues that we’re heading for a multi-decade period of “fragmentation” in geopolitics, and explains what this might mean for diplomacy and for businesses looking to chart a course to future success.

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Billecart-Salmon is one of the world’s most historic and prestigious champagne houses. Here, sixth-generation co-owner and deputy general manager Antoine Roland-Billecart explains how being a family-owned and family-run business allows him and his relatives to take a longer-term perspective, and make more calm and considered decisions. As with creating champagne itself, a slower approach is sometimes best.

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Nick Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic and was previously editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired. Here, we speak with him about artificial intelligence and get his predictions on how this rapidly evolving technology might reshape our lives as individuals and society at large, exploring everything from politics to the media industry. He also tells us why, despite some concerns, he is broadly optimistic about AI and technology in general.

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The last 12 months have been full of changes, driven by accelerating and emerging trends. Watch the video to learn more about the global themes taking centre stage and how they may impact investment journeys.

Owning and growing a business can be an exciting and challenging time for entrepreneurs. Find out how to navigate today’s challenges here.

In private equity, we believe it is essential to diversify and to choose managers with a long-term and established track record. Explore.

In private equity, we believe it is essential to diversify and to choose managers with a long-term and established track record. Explore.

Uli Sigg on building one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary Chinese art

Uli Sigg first encountered the Chinese art scene back in the late 1970s, when he first visited the country. Over the next few years, that initial curiosity became a genuine passion, a passion which drove Uli to start collecting contemporary Chinese art throughout the 80s and 90s, as he served as Switzerland’s ambassador to China, Mongolia and North Korea. Today, his is one of the largest and most influential collections of Chinese art in the world. In this conversation, Uli tells Victor Aerni, CEO of PWM Asia, about what he calls his “encyclopaedic” approach to collecting and shares some advice on how to begin acquiring art and building a meaningful and coherent collection.

00:20 :
A passion kindled

Exploring the two main sectors that stand to benefit from AI’s coming of age in 2024. Healthcare and Technology

Why we see merit in being ready to move from cash to fixed-income bonds to capture the returns we expect them to offer this year.

Early on in his career, Tony Beltramelli spotted the potential of machine learning to disrupt and revolutionise software and app design. Since 2017, he has built his Copenhagen-based start-up, Uizard, into one of the world’s leading AI-powered design tools. Here we sit down with the founder to hear what gave him the initial impetus to launch the venture and to listen as he shares his predictions for the future of the design industry.

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Zak Dychtwald is the author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World and is the founder of the think tank Young China Group, which uses a people-first approach to understand China’s identity and its evolving impact on the world. Here, Zak explains why many in the West continually misunderstand Gen-Zers and millennials in China. He also describes the “cultural gravity” that these young people exert on the rest of the world and outlines some of the tensions that exist between the different generations in China, and why.

0:07:
Modernisation does not mean Westernisation

1:20:
Consumer and cultural power

3:47 :
Bridging the generational gulf in China

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Kyungsun Chung is one of the grandsons of Chung Ju-yung, who started out with a car-repair shop in Seoul in the 1940s and built it into the Hyundai Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate behind Samsung. With that family tree beneath him, the traditional and obvious career path for Kyungsun would have been to join the family business and remain within its folds. However, instead, he has dedicated his professional life to impact investing through The Sylvan Group, the Singapore-based private-equity firm he co-founded along with Scott Jeun in 2020. Here Kyungsun explains where he thinks his preference for “stakeholder capitalism” comes from and shares some insights into why he believes family businesses are often more resilient and sustainable.

Between 2015 and 2021, Monica Oudang served as the Chief HR Officer for Gojek, a ride-hailing start-up that in 2019 became Indonesia’s first “decacorn” – a private company with a valuation of over $10 billion. During that time, she saw firsthand how company culture, mindset and collaborative problem-solving can together produce transformational change. Today she is the chairperson of The GoTo Impact Foundation, an impact organisation attached to the GoTo Group (the new parent company above Gojek since its merger with Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia). In this interview, Monica talks us through how the foundation operates and explains how lessons from running a rapidly growing start-up helped to establish the foundation during the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.

When you spend much of your time thinking about the future, you get used to not necessarily knowing the answer. Tamira Snell is a Senior Advisor and Futurist at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and, for her, this is not only a comfortable but actually a healthy mindset to have – and it’s one she encounters all too rarely when speaking with entrepreneurs and executives. Here she describes how she thinks about the future and demonstrates how smart planning is really built on keeping an open mind and accepting uncertainty.

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Find out how having an open discussion about succession planning could help ensure a long-lasting family legacy.

00:12 : The psychology of investing
00:58 : Home truths
01:34 : Tools & techniques

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Some European cities have developed a more sustainable solution to urbanisation through refurbishment and repurposing of old buildings.

00:10 : Global threats to democracy
01:00 : In the balance
01:45 : Globalisation revisted

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00:10 : What is friend-shoring ?
00:46 : the semiconductor conundrum
01:10 : Wise investments ?

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Is the US on track for a soft or hard landing? A harder landing next year is the most likely outcome, says Kevin Hassett, an economist who served as the 29th Chairman of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Excess savings, built up during the pandemic, are depleting and he expects geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine to make people more risk averse, with businesses also holding back on capital spending next year in the run-up to the presidential election.

Kevin Hasset explains the economic forces driving the prospects for growth and inflation in the US going into 2024.

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Southeast Asia has a key role to play in the global energy transition,
provided it can attract the foreign investment needed to exploit
its abundance of renewable resources and manufacturing potential.

Healthcare systems worldwide have experienced the influence of new technologies across inpatient and outpatient care.

Technologies including those tied to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) have the potential to positively impact patient outcomes.

Antoine Roland-Billecart represents the sixth generation of his family to lead Champagne Billecart-Salmon, one of the world’s most famous and storied champagne houses. In this interview, he discusses the importance of taking time and adopting a long-term view, something which being family-owned allows the business to do. He also explains how, over the past 200 years and more, he and his forebears have built a brand focused first and foremost on quality.

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Alexander Stubb is the former Prime Minister of Finland and the current director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence. Here, he explains why the world is at a critical juncture when it comes to international relations and describes how foreign policy needs to adapt to meet the new challenges. With his deep knowledge and experience of European politics, he also talks through how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has united and strengthened the EU like never before.

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As a Managing Partner of the Pictet Group, who joined the bank in 1993, Laurent Ramsey has seen a number of shifts and developments when it comes to ESG. Here, he explains how we’ve moved from an “exclusion” mindset to one built primarily around engagement, and talks through how crucial it is to enter into meaningful dialogue with companies that are not yet doing enough. He also emphasises the need to tackle all three elements of ESG simultaneously, despite the climate crisis being the most pressing challenge facing humanity.