Category: Out of the Box Thinking


Axel Liebetrau on Corporate Foresight

Friday, November 13 2009

In an increasingly competitive market dominated and shaped by changing environments and trends, knowing what the future holds would come very handy. Of course, future telling is as hard in banking as it is in any other industry and aspect of life. However, despite the apparent difficulties, there are some things one can do to […]

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Professor Sita Mazumder on Diversity

Friday, February 27 2009

In private banking, as in many other industries, client bases are becoming more and more heterogeneous. Demographic, socio-cultural and economic shifts - to name a few of the driving forces of this development - are reshaping the composition of many private bank’s clientele.
Private banks now face the challenge of dealing with the developments, by determining […]

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Thinking Visually to Tackle Business Challenges (in private banking)

Sunday, September 14 2008

Vacations are already far behind us in the western hemisphere and we are picking up with posting on our blog. In this first blogpost after the summer break we put the focus on how thinking visually can help tackle business challenges.
Statistical surveys have shown that design and visualization have a verifiable impact on business performance. […]

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Professor Peter Bossaerts of the Swiss Finance Institute and EPFL on Neurofinance

Wednesday, July 23 2008

In today’s webcast we talk to Professor Peter Bossaerts of the Swiss Finance Institute on neurofinance, one of the cutting edge topics in financial research. Prof Bossaerts, who is a globally leading research in this domain, explains us what neurofinance is about and what the implications for private bankers are. It is the right thing […]

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Randall Willette, Founder of Fine Art Wealth Management

Wednesday, May 21 2008

In today’s webcast we talk to Mr Randall Willette, Founder of Fine Art Wealth Management. In the discussion Randall outlines how art has become not only an asset class in private banking, but a means to differentiate and even generate additional revenues. These art-based financial services include tax and estate planning related to art, art […]

Popularity: 21% [?]

Daniel Isler, Co-Founder of Switzerbank.com on “Finding your Banker”

In today’s webcast we talk to Mr Daniel Isler, co-founder of Switzerbank.com, a Website that helps high net worth individuals (HNWIs) find their ideal banker or asset manager. What is interesting about Switzerbank is their starting point: Their whole value proposition is designed around the task of helping private clients find a banker with whom […]

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