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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...

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. https://www.pictet.com/ch/en/wealth-management

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...

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...

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...

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...

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