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[embedded content] Published: Thursday February 11 2016 Pictet Wealth Management just released “Wealth”, the mobile application allowing clients to interact digitally with Pictet and have their portfolio at their fingertips. The application runs on iPhones & Android smartphones and is available in four languages: English, French, German and Spanish. Clients residing in Switzerland can download and connect to the “Wealth” app from the App Store or the Google Play store. European clients...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Equities: A change of regime Equities markets had an unusually turbulent start to the year. What should investors expect next, on both tactical and strategic horizons?

[embedded content] Published: Thursday January 28 2016 The new fall in oil prices in recent weeks will add to deflationary pressures in the euro area. Frederik Ducrozet, Senior European Economist at Pictet Wealth Management, discusses the size of the impact and the likely policy response from the ECB.

Published: Wednesday January 27 2016 A Singapore group has become a leading supplier of comprehensive health services to businesses and health insurers in the Asia-Pacific region, helping keep patients out of hospital though preventative healthcare. Providing healthcare for all their citizens is a key issue for Asian governments. The populations of countries such as India, China and Indonesia are rapidly ageing, placing a growing burden on healthcare budgets which are already insufficient to...

Published: Tuesday January 12 2016 After a distinguished career conducting famous orchestras all over the world, the Japanese maestro has founded international academies that help young instrumentalists develop their potential by playing chamber music. From a young age, Seiji Ozawa was destined for a career as a classical musician. Born in 1935 to Japanese parents in China, he made a promising start studying piano when his family returned to Japan in 1944. His father had even bought a piano,...

Published: Tuesday December 29 2015 The Director of Geneva’s Campus Biotech is creating a new biotechnology and medical technology centre, bringing together different disciplines to find treatments that will save lives and improve the quality of life for patients. Since the beginning of modern pharmacology, the treatment of patients has relied on advances in medicine and biology to devise therapies that can cure or alleviate their conditions. Today, new approaches focus on specific biological...

Published: 22nd December 2015 Download issue: Health matters to all of us: we want to live longer and better lives as our standards of living rise. In this issue of Pictet Report, we take a look at some exciting developments in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, and at new models for providing affordable and accessible healthcare. The most significant factor in improving healthcare today is technological innovation – in particular, the falling costs of DNA sequencing and the...

[embedded content] Published: Monday December 21 2015 Christophe Donay, Chief Strategist at Pictet Wealth Management, discusses our macro scenario for 2016 and the implications for financial markets. The absence of momentum and elevated volatility mean a key role for an active tactical asset allocation and stock-picking.

Published: 16th December 2015 Download issue: A case of lacklustre Goldilocks The coming year can just about be described as a ‘Goldilocks’ environment (not too hot, not too cold), but not a very appealing one. It is likely to be characterised by weak inflation, an absence of momentum in economic growth, concerns about the effectiveness of monetary policy, ongoing weakness in emerging markets, and periods of elevated volatility in financial markets. This scenario for 2016, as outlined in...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]ECB: Further easing could follow The ECB's latest easing package fell short of market expectations. However, the ECB may well act again during 2016.