On The Pulse

Join me and Bruno Roche for a conversation on the benefits of the ‘Economics of Mutuality’. EOM is a disruptive Management- and Business Performance Model that rewrites the current Paradigm and Definition of ‘Profit’ & ‘Capital’. In his book ‘Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World’, he argues that today’s Capitalism is Incomplete (co-author Jay Jakub). Bruno says, today People and Planet are still in Service of Business – and Business is in Service of Finance - and eventually, Finance is in Service of ITSELF only. That’s an Unstable and Unsustainable System.   

Studies by Oxford University have shown that 90% of Businesses engaging Sustainability Practices lower their Cost of Capital, 88% of Companies managed to increase their Operational Performance and 80% of listed Firms, showed a stronger Share Price performance. A more complete form of Capitalism, drives better financial performance, because it includes and mobilizes Other forms of Capital, such as Human-Capital, Social-Capital, Natural-Capital ALONGSIDE Financial-Capital.    

Business Leaders must Understand that their Responsibility needs to go beyond maximizing (monetary) profits for Shareholders. Limiting Profits & Capital to Money, as has been done over the last decades, fails to build strong, resilient and sustainable Companies. This has been shown already in the Financial Crisis of 2008, and is about to be demonstrated again due the economic challenges due to the Covid19 pandemic. Dr. Steven Garber, Principal of the Washington Institute, describes ‘Economics of Mutuality’, as neither Charity, nor Corporate Social Responsibility, but rather a Way for Sustained Profitability. He says, EOM aims for making Money in a Way that Remembers the Meaning of the Marketplace.

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Join me and Andy Marsh, President and CEO of Nasdaq listed PlugPower (symbol: PLUG) for a conversation about how the Covid19 crisis, boosts demand for Hydrogen Fuel Cell e-Mobility, especially in the B2B ‘Material Handling Industry’ (e.g. Forklift Trucks). Some of PlugPower’s main customers are Amazon, Walmart and Carrefour. Fuel Cell Technology has been around for a long time, yet has only lately matured from a high-cost and low-implementation technology into profitable commercialization, by offering turnkey Hydrogen Fuel Cell solutions. The Global Hydrogen Generation market accounted for $103.20 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $207.48 billion by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 8.1% from 2017 to 2026. (source: ResearchAndMarkets.com's)

Andy explains, the difference between Hydrogen (produced by using fossil fuels) and Green Hydrogen (using renewable/green energy) and PlugPower’s intense focus on shifting fast towards Green Hydrogen production. Companies such as German Bosch and Chinese Diesel Engine maker, WeiChai, are investing billions into the HFC (Hydrogen Fuel Cells) market and its infrastructure, as to broaden its implementation. Regarding the passenger car sector, Toyota, Honda and Hyundai already offer FCEV’s (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles).

Albeit expensive, FCEV will eventually offer a viable and cost-efficient alternative to fossil fuel powered cars and even BEV’s (Battery Electric Vehicles), such as Tesla cars. Some analysts agree, that car producers only focusing on Battery Fueled e-Mobility, can expect strong competition from cars powered by Hydrogen Power in a not so distant future. The main advantages of Hydrogen Fuel Cell e-mobility: fast refueling, long range, high power density. Disadvantages: relatively costly (due to current low levels scaling) and the need of more infrastructure investments.  Disclaimer: ‘I am an investor.’

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Join me and former President of Latvia, Vaira Vike-Freiberga in an insightful conversation about what her childhood experience as an immigrant has taught her about handling times of crisis. Fleeing from her home country Latvia, Vaira and her family first went to Germany, then moved to Morocco and finally settled in Canada, where she obtained her PhD in Psychology. In 1999 she was drafted by the Latvian Parliament and elected to the office of President of Latvia. In 2003 she was re-elected for a second term. She played a key role in Latvia becoming an EU and NATO member.   Vaira believes the best thing to do ‘when things get hard, is to focus on the NOW and to plough on’. 

Times of crisis call for the willingness of personal sacrifice, overcoming loss without major outcry and to – not only believe – but also to participate in creating a better future. Democracy gives the people the right to vote. We are all free to cast a vote and with that vote express trust in the government and its leadership. However, as of late – especially in Europe – people have used the tool of ‘protests’ and ‘demonstrations’ potently a little lightly.   

 Making important decisions about how to deal with the Covid19 pandemic is a difficult balance between the unpredictable outcome for society’s health and safety, and the predictable economic detriment the lockdown has caused (and continues to do so for some time). Nothing is definite. Anything is probable. Decisions need to be made on a rational basis after considering a variety of probable outcomes. Especially governments, but also individuals and communities benefit from a strong sense of solidarity, cooperation, and empathy when dealing with any type of hardship.  

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Join me and Manfred Hübner for a conversation on why global stock markets are pushing towards all-time highs, whilst the underlying economic outlook expects the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Manfred is the creator of the sentix Global Investor Sentiment Survey and one of the leading experts on Behavioral Finance in Europe. 

Manfred explains, Behavioral Finance studies the psychology behind investment decisions. Fact is, humans can’t make 100% rational decisions (see Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky). Same applies when it comes to investing money, even if done by institutional investors and market professionals. Emotions ‘get in the way’ and compete with rational thought processes. The way human brains evolved is key to understanding human decision-making processes and actions. The Limbic System (mainly emotions), engages at the same time as the Neocortex (mainly conscious thought and reasoning) stand in competition. This can result in less conducive decisions or mistakes.

The sentix sentiment index indicate investors' market expectations over the next month. It reflects investors' emotions which fluctuate between fear and greed. Negative sentiment extremes are usually an immediate indication of a price recovery, whereas very high optimism is often a warning sign of impending price weakness. The sentiment indices should therefore be interpreted in a contrary way. Longer-term reversal points are indicated by the Sentiment in combination with Strategic Bias. The Strategic Bias (as a 6-month expectation) should point in the opposite direction of the Sentiment. The sentix Sentiment is obtained from the weekly sentix Survey (sentix Global Investor Survey) of currently more than 5,000 private and institutional investors, whose estimations of 14 financial markets are collected (source: sentix sentiment index website). 

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Join me and Michael Kott, Founder and CEO of Digital Asset Platform, CM-Equity AG, for a conversation on the Financial Market 4.0. Fund raising via Digital Assets saw tough times since the highs of the Initial Coin Offerings/Security Token Offerings (ICO/STO) Market in mid-2018. According to the ICO/STO Report by PwC (March 2019), the market value fell sharply in the second half of that year, marking the beginning of the ‘Crypto Winter’. A lot of people got ‘burnt’, Bitcoin gained a bad reputation…and thus casting a shadow on the Entire Digital Asset Industry. 

However, according to Michael the tide is turning, with STOs becoming an increasingly popular alternative to IPOs (Initial Public Offerings), for companies to raise funding. The current Covid19 pandemic and economic crisis leaves many businesses with the need to raise money as fast and cost efficient as possible. Clear regulation by authorities across the globe to protect investors, is the pivotal driver for the RE-CREATION TRUST, providing a credible framework for sustainable market growth in Digital Assets. 

The EU Commission is looking at formalizing a Classification of Security Tokens as a ‘Digital Representation’ of a Real-World Assets, such as Gold, Property and Equity and by so doing, include them in the current regulatory framework of: Prospectus Regulation, MIFID II, Central Security Depositary Regulation and The Settlement Finality Directive,…. Collaboration between Central Banks, Regulators and Corporations internationally is key to a cohesive and functioning market.   Amongst the main advantages of Security Token Offerings (v’s traditional IPOs), are Cost Reduction, Fractional Ownership and broad Access, 24/7 Trading and increased Liquidity. For Michael it is clear, the disruption of the Traditional Corporate Finance Market is here…AND… it is here to stay!  

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The International Labor Organization (ILO) expects over 400million Full-Time Jobs will be lost in the 2nd quarter of 2020 alone due to the Covid19 crisis. Poverty has been a long-standing problem globally AND it’s about to get worse! But not only in so called developing or officially poor countries. Rich countries – Poor People that’s where my spotlight focuses for this episode of ‘Covid19 – from Crisis to Creation’.

About 8.2% of the Swiss population is classified as poor. And 14% of the people living in this rich country are at the border of poverty. The number of people going to food banks or depending on charities such as the Schweizer Tafel to get their daily substances has gone up 400% since the Covid19 crisis hit. Scenes of long queues of people waiting for food donations in rich cities such as Zurich and Geneva have made headline news. 

At the same time over 2.8million tones of perfectly edible food is being thrown out and wasted in Switzerland every single year. Here also the Schweizer Tafel is trying to elevate the problem by picking up produce beyond the official ‘sell by’ date from supermarkets and other institutions and deliver them with their trucks to people in need across the entire country. Foundations and Charities like the Schweizer Tafel make a difference and will become increasingly important for thousands of people, be it the elderly, single mothers and their children or recently unemployed, in the future. They need financial and hands on support from whom ever wants and can lend a helping hand. 

The official definition of who’s poor in this country is: A single person with an average income of 2.300, - USD per month or a family of four (2x adults & 2x kids) with a disposable income of 3.990, - USD per month. The Swiss Gini Index - measure of inequality - is around 29 (100 = total inequality. ZERO = total equality).

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With almost all public events cancelled and concert halls closed, how will we enjoy Art, Culture and Public Life in future? Is ‘going all digital’ really the answer for the long term? Leading performing-arts institutions in New York City are reducing staff as pandemic-related closures are stretching into 2021, with millions of dollars in federal aid running out. Sir Clive Gillinson tells me that Carnegie Hall furloughed 51 full-time workers, and implemented pay cuts for the remaining employees after extending its closure until at least Jan. 7. By the way, The New York Philharmonic recently eliminated 44 jobs, about 40% of its administrative staff, through a mix of furloughs and terminations. Members of the 98-person orchestra all kept their jobs, although their base salaries were reduced by 25%. However, both, Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, were among the lucky cultural organizations that received forgivable loans from the Payment Protection Program, the $669 billion stimulus package designed to keep employees of U.S. small businesses and nonprofits on payroll during the coronavirus pandemic. But could more be done?

Clive and his team reacted very quickly to the fact that Carnegie Hall may not open any time soon and created the digital event called ‘Live with Carnegie Hall’, a 75-minute program with star performers transmitting the show from their homes. The format has been very well received and reaches many hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Whilst going increasingly digital can be a long term added value, it will never be the same experience as going to a live event. Trying to replicate ‘live’ when going ‘online’ should not be the aim. However, what should be the aim, is to always perform with utmost excellence and present no less than extraordinary experiences. That’s the only way to keep the audience and also the patrons of Carnegie Hall enthused in the long term.

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Join me and Eric G. Sarasin for a conversation why Covid19 may actually be an opportunity to finally transition our economies and societies to a CO2 free and sustainable reality. Eric believes that the stimulus programs by the governments around the world to combat the Covid19 fallout, should be channeled into the ‘green economy’ and investments. According a WEF study he mentions, transitioning into sustainable business models creates billions worth of corporate profits and many hundred thousand of jobs.

He tells us how his Family owned bank, Bank Sarasin, started a ‘green investment fund’ many years ago – amongst the first of its kind – yet found it hard to sell it to investors. Now things have changed. His involvement with the Race For Water Foundation is very important to him, as he sees climate change and hardship caused by it potentially resulting in social unrest and anarchy. A statistic he mentions: If we fail to change our M.O. with Plastic right now, then there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050!

Eric Sarasin has 30 years of banking experience with Morgan Stanley, Pictet & Cie, Citibank and, of course, Sarasin Bank (now Bank J. Safra Sarasin). At Sarasin Bank, he holds various management positions in many business sectors and developed the family-owned bank into one of Switzerland’s leading private banks, culminating in his role as Deputy CEO of the Group. Since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Singularity Group SA and Board member of several other private companies and investment companies. He is also Chairman of TIGER21 Zurich, an association for entrepreneurs, CEO’s and specially qualified investors from around the world, with 700 members. During his career, Eric has held a number of public, non-private and cultural management positions, including 12 years as President of the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, five years as Treasurer of WWF International, and he sits on the Executive Board as treasurer of the League against Cancer in Basel, the Swiss Peace Foundation, the Paul Josef Jenni Foundation, the Maurice E. Muller Foundation, the Race for Water Foundation, as well as heading and participating in NGOs, including Human Rights Watch. Eric is married, has four children, and lives in Basel.

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Welcome to my conversation with Hany Rashwan – Founder, CEO, Chairman of 21Shares AG. This is what we talk about ⬇️

00:00 - Where’s Crypto TODAY? 

04:55 - Bitcoin vs. Altcoins & Co. 

12:28 - BTC vs. Gold & Intrinsic Value 

15:03 - Long-Term Crypto Drivers 

23:42 - Crypto & Wealth Management 

28:25 - Main Risks in Crypto 

37:27 - Meme-Coins - Hype or Hope 

39:35 - Key Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Hany Rashwan is a serial entrepreneur focused on financial technology (fintech) companies. He has started three technology companies out of Silicon Valley and sold one. Today, he runs the world’s largest issuer of crypto exchange-traded products, with thirty-four products listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, Stuttgart Exchange, and soon the Nordic Nasdaq and Weiner Börse (Vienna). He is an expert on compliance, payments, financial products, financial infrastructure, cryptocurrencies, and online lending. Hany is the author of three patents. He graduated Magna Cum Laude (B.A. History) at Columbia University, New York, NY.

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Welcome to my conversation with Kate Eckman – Executive Coach, TV Host and Author. This is what we talk about ⬇️   

00:00 - The Full Spirit Workout 

05:40 - Beauty & Success RE-defined 

10:25 - Pressure to BE Perfect 

14:25 - Surrender & Spiritual Stamina 

19:30 - Limiting Self Beliefs 

26:25 - Comfort Zone & Spiritual Signs 

33:30 - Love & Relationships 

40:25 - "Go Slow 2 Go Fast" 

46:50 - Social Media & Social Judgement 

52:20 - Key Lessons   

Kate Eckman, accomplished entrepreneur, elite athlete, mindfulness expert, and Columbia University-certified executive coach, used to be like a lot of people.  On the surface, she was a successful, high-level performer. But deep down, her life was full of less-tangible roadblocks — excess mental and emotional weight, deep-seated insecurity, self-judgment, and overwhelming stress and anxiety. In her book, ‘The Full Spirit Workout’, Kate shares the inner fitness regimen she used in her own life to generate a sense of self-worth and contentment from within. Rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques, her results-driven plan focuses on building spiritual and emotional muscles to feel confident and complete — regardless of others’ expectations, approval, or criticism. The spiritual fitness principles and daily exercises that Kate offers in The Full Spirit Workout are the same ones she uses in her coaching practice with business leaders and professional athletes. Based on rigorous research and multifaceted training, her regimen demands a genuine commitment to change. But it’s far from grueling, since Kate blends in creativity, flexibility, and delight so that each “rep” feels less like work and more like play.    

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