Dr. Felix Brill – Entrepreneur, Economist, Financial markets expert
Dr Felix Brill has been a member of the management team at VP Bank Group since 1 March 2018 and, as Chief Investment Officer, is responsible for the VP Fund Solutions, Group Investment, and Product & Market Management segments. He was previously the CEO of the global consulting firm Wellershoff & Partners, which he founded together with his partners in 2009.
Felix Brill studied economics in St. Gallen and Stockholm and received his PhD from the University of Bern. Before joining Wellershoff & Partners, he worked at UBS in New York and Zurich and served as the lead economist for the Swiss economy at UBS Wealth Management Research, where he was responsible for business cycle analysis and macroeconomic forecasting.
At VP Bank, Felix Brill regularly speaks to groups of business leaders and the local and international press. For instance, he was quoted on the front page of the «Financial Times» and the «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» and was interviewed by «Bloomberg TV» and Swiss TV. He is a guest lecturer at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and at the Swiss Finance Institute.
Topics Dr. Felix Brill
- Economy and financial markets (Global economic perspectives, Outlook for the Swiss economy, Financial markets perspectives, Monetary policy)
- Globalization (What do we know about trend growth, Emerging markets outlook, China and the World economy)
- Sector-specific trends (Sector-specific economic outlook, new technologies and their economic impact, i.e. “Beyond the shale-gas boom”)
- FX markets (Dealing with currency risks, Euro crisis, Quo Vadis US dollar)