Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family PartnersPower over PartnershipThe U.S. administration is implementing policy priorities closely aligned with the Heritage Foundation’s Program 2025. Governance under President Trump is highly centralized, transactional, and utilitarian. This governing style and strategic direction are expected...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family Partners Escalation in Europe - NATO Rallies to Defend against Russia Three main blocs in geopolitics are: revisionist aggressor Russia, fully supported by China; the unreliable and isolationist United States; and a fragmented and hesitant Europe. The...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family PartnersTrump Actions - Unthinkable Becomes Normal Anyone who is surprised or shocked by Trump’s decisions and actions is simply not prepared, and that is irresponsible and ignorant, even arrogant. The recent and self-centered complacency of the...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family Partners. Geopolitics are dominated by President Trump unleashing a flood of executive orders, Russia’s relentless military aggression against Ukraine, China’s focus on building an alternative geoeconomic order and by newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hopefully...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family PartnersTrump is about Radical DisruptionWalter Lippmann, a highly influential US journalist, respected thinker and informal advisor to past US Presidents, remarked in the revolutionary 1920s and 1930s that “we have exited from civilization without quite...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family Partners Europe Takes Off - The Trump Effect Two months down a four year presidential term - a lot more Trump to come! This means hope and despair depending on whom you ask. In any event, however,...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist @ Key Family Partners Biden is Out - Wide open US Elections President Biden is dropping out of the presidential race - better late than never. Yet still, geopolitics remain dominated by nationalism, protectionism and populism. And sadly, the highly...
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Article from Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist at Key Family Partners Geopolitics - The Paradigm Shift to National Security The Washington Spring Meetings 2024 of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) were strong testimony that the national security agendas have taken the...
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Article by Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist at Key Family Partners Commonalities between Ukraine, Credit Suisse and Nvidia What do Russia’s military invasion, the collapse of Credit Suisse and Nvidia’s artificial intelligence boom have in common? They all share a slow development at the beginning, then an...
Read MoreArticle by Beat Wittmann, Chief Investment Strategist at Key Family Partners SA Israel’s Shock and ReactionOn October 7th 2023 Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shook the world. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has escalated ever since. Any mass terrorist attack should be named and condemned!...
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