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Peter Braunwalder, CEO HSBC Private Bank on the Success Factors of a CEO Succession

Monday, June 30 2008

CEO succession planning is a very important, but often neglected, topic in business. This is particularly relevant in a relationship- and trust-based business such as private banking. Mr Peter Braunwalder, chief executive of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, shares his insights into successful succession planning with us in today’s webcast. Mr Braunwalder is retiring from […]

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Christian Hafner, Managing Partner at Bank Wegelin & Co.

Tuesday, June 10 2008

In today’s webcast we talk to Mr Christian Hafner, managing partner of Wegelin & Co., the largest traditional Swiss private bank in terms of branches in Switzerland.
In the webcast Mr Hafner explains the main reasons for Wegelin’s success, which he relates to the way they align the interests of clients, employees and owners. He […]

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Differentiation and Positioning in Private Banking - what marketing brochures reveal about strategy

Tuesday, June 3 2008

Private banks speak more about themselves than they do about their clients. Moreover, they hardly differentiate and they tend to use the same language: these are some of the findings of a study we conducted based on a quantitative analysis of the marketing brochures of 10 private banks*.
In fact, marketing brochures are a formidable proxy […]

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