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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Entrepreneurs, Barcelona Introducing the Pictet Entrepreneurs Summit, the annual invitation-only conference at the crossroad of serial entrepreneurship, personal wealth, and social responsibility.

[embedded content] Published: Wednesday November 25 2015 Millennials are increasingly driving spending growth in the US. Marianne Johnson, Financial Analyst at Pictet Wealth Management, explains the particular characteristics of this key demographic, and the implications of the generational handover for companies and investors.

Published: 11th November 2015 Download issue: Since 2009, major central banks such as the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and others have largely determined the trends in the major asset classes of both emerging and developed countries: equities, sovereign and corporate bonds, and currencies. Investors found their guiding light in the central banks. Markets are once again likely to find themselves under their influence in 2016, but without as...

“After a long period when market volatility was relatively subdued, it has risen sharply this year. ” The Vix, a widely used measure of equity-market volatility, was in a systemic risk regime for 15 days this year, compared with just two days in 2014 and none at all in 2013, as shown by the chart below. This year’s experience of volatility is still not extensive in a historical comparison, but it still […]

Published: 15th October 2015 Download issue: The Vix, a widely used measure of equity-market volatility, was in a systemic risk regime for 15 days this year, compared with just two days in 2014 and none at all in 2013, as shown by the chart below. This year’s experience of volatility is still not extensive in a historical comparison, but it still represents a marked change from very subdued conditions in the previous two years. What explains the change? Higher market volatility at present...

[embedded content] Published: Monday October 05 2015 This edition of “The Entrepreneurs” highlights some of the discussions that took place during the “Pictet Entrepreneurs Summit” held in Geneva in September 2015. This annual invitation-only conference is a platform of exchange for successful entrepreneurs at the crossroads of serial entrepreneurship, personal wealth, and social responsibility.

Published: Monday September 14 2015 The fifth-generation member of a distinguished Italian winemaking family is working with her father and sister to continuously improve the reputation of their wines which have achieved global recognition for their quality. Barbaresco in the Piemont region of northwest Italy is home to the Gaja winemaking business, producer of some of the world’s most renowned wines. The current owner is Angelo Gaja, the founder’s great grandson, who introduced techniques...

Fears about the slowdown in China unleashed a wave of panic through the markets. The authorities in Beijing probably did not think the change in the way the exchange rate was fixed would detonate such an explosive correction on financial markets. The Shanghai Composite tumbled almost 27% in the week after that decision. It had already fallen 22% prior to that since mid-June. In China’s slipstream, the S&P 500 fell by 11%, the Stoxx Europe 600 by 15% and the Topix by 13% in local...

Published: Monday August 31 2015 Innocent Drinks, launched by three friends in 1999, is a socially and environmentally responsible company that produces healthy fruit drinks and supports rural development in countries that supply its ingredients. Richard Reed and two friends from Cambridge University had always talked about setting up a business, but four years after graduation they decided it was time to do it. They wanted to produce something that helped people have better lives, while...