Inflation, inflation, inflation...why all the fuss? We explore the answer with Jason Draho, UBS Head of Asset Allocation in the United States. What is the significance, what is the history, what has changed since the last inflationary period, and what can we expect from here? These topics and more on this month's edition of Ebb and flow.

We speak with Dean Brenner, founder of The Latimer Group and communication coach to the leaders of some of the world’s largest corporations. In our conversation, we quickly learn that the skills Dean is teaching corporate CEOs are very much applicable to everyone one of us in our own professional, social and family lives. We ask Dean how to get our communication muscles functioning again as we emerge from COVID 19… if it’s possible to have a conversation with someone with an opposing political view, and how this talented communicator has applied his skills to his own children and with his former colleagues on the US Olympic Sailing team.

Founded in 2002 as a community sailing program 14 students strong, New England Science and Sailing now brings its unique combination of water-based platforms and STEM learning to over 9,000 students a year. This month, we speak with NESS founder and President Spike Lobdell about the origins of this great program, his personal journey from the corporate to the non-profit world, and the touching stories of students’ first encounters with the ocean.

This month on Ebb and flow, we’re talking about your kids…more specifically, we’re joined by an expert on helping families help their children understand wealth, values, and philanthropy. Julie Binder, of the UBS Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services team, offers advice for those of us with children in our lives on everything from allowance… to chores…to after school jobs…to philanthropy and family values. And along the way, Julie describes the tough love sometimes required to point our youngsters in the right financial direction.

Sustainable investing is a rapidly evolving space that is attracting the interest and the assets of investors around the world. Our guest Amantia Muhedini, UBS SI Strategist, describes the philosophy behind Environmental Social and Governance Investing, the remarkable proliferation of investment options, progress toward specific sustainable goals like diversity, equity and inclusion, and the drivers pushing sustainable investing inevitably into the mainstream.

We speak with the Assistant Superintendent of Stonington Public Schools on the evolving efforts to educate through COVID-19. Mary Anne Butler shares stories of students, teachers, and administrators showing incredible resilience and ingenuity as they face this challenge while also looking beyond to the long term impact and hidden opportunities emerging from the crisis.

Amidst extraordinary developments, we speak with UBS's #1 political expert John Savercool on subjects ranging from a turbulent transfer of power... to the Biden administration’s likely approach to Covid-19, taxes, and regulation...to the realities of polarization in our politics and our nation.

Adi Ignatius, Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review, joins us to discuss the challenges of covering this unique year, the evolving interests of a sophisticated readership, and the issues likely to dominate 2021. Ignatius also takes us into the room for some of his most memorable interviews with such varied personalities as Vladimir Putin and Anthony Fauci.

We speak with Wall Street's "Theme Queen" – a.k.a. UBS Head of Thematic Research Laura Kane – about her work identifying investible themes and trends around the world. From predictable themes like the US election... to unpredictable developments like COVID-19... to the pie-in-the-sky trends like robotics and augmented reality that may change the world forever.

As teams around the world race to develop coronavirus vaccines and treatments, we take stock of progress, expectations, realities, and ramifications with a world-renowned health expert and pioneer in medicine.