Insights

Mobilizing private wealth for public good

In its white paper for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, UBS unveils a blueprint for channeling private wealth towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) - one aspect of the WEF’s Annual Meeting theme "responsive and responsible leadership".

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Global Real Estate Bubble Index

Which cities have the highest risk of a housing bubble? How long do you need to work to be able to buy an average sized flat?

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Women as a force for economic change

While the world struggles to find new sources of growth, one solution to revive sputtering economies requires neither drilling nor innovation and could add up to USD 12 trillion to the global economy within a decade.

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Gender-Lens Wealth

Achieving gender equality and female empowerment is one of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. Yet, according to a recent World Economic Forum report, basic global gender gaps could take 83 years to close. What can investors do?

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How wealthy are you?

Lily Cole explores the merits of social altruism and free labour in the millennial age, using her Impossible.com social network as an example of a commerce-free online community based around free services and advice.

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Prosperity beyond oil

The Middle East has experienced rapid growth and wealth creation in recent decades due to energy exports. While the region has navigated the cyclical ups and downs of energy prices in the past, never before has the supremacy of crude oil as the world’s main energy source been as challenged as today.

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The end of progress?

Throughout time, we have used progress as a marker of success. But with rapid disruption in politics and markets worldwide, are we accelerating towards the beginning of the end?

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Is unpredictability the new normal?

UBS Investor Watch provides an international analysis of issues affecting High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) and their plans for the future. For this edition, we interviewed more than 2,800 millionaires in seven markets around the world (Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland and the UK) to assess how unpredictability is shaping their attitudes and actions.