
Max Castelli
Managing Director and Head of Strategy for Global Sovereign Markets at UBS Asset Management
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Aug 9, 2026
UBS Reserve Management Seminar 2026
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Max CastelliGUEST
In the sense that, as you know, in the last few years, the focus has been on geopolitics.

Max CastelliGUEST
Being last year with Trump trade policy, this year, of course, the conflict in the Middle East.

Max CastelliGUEST
However, what is interesting and what is coming out of the survey as well, and also from the debate that we had at the conference, is that The reserve managers are once again focusing on key economic and financial variables.
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Reserve management enters a new phase
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Yara AzizHOST
What were the main takeaways from the 32nd Reserve Management Seminar, and what did the discussions reveal about how reserve managers are currently positioned?

Max CastelliGUEST
Of course, we have been running the 32nd Reserve Management Seminar, which also includes a survey that we carry out before the event.

Max CastelliGUEST
It's a very long five-day event, which allows us to really understand not only how reserve managers are managing reserves and what are the key trends or changes, but also as well what is their view about the sort of big agenda items that any investor, any institutional investor has.

Max CastelliGUEST
So let me highlight a few of them, and then we can, of course, go a little bit deeper in the following question.

Max CastelliGUEST
First of all, as you know, geopolitics is very dominant and has been dominant over the last few years, including in terms of the result of our survey.

Max CastelliGUEST
This year was the first year that more sort of, let's call it economic and financial topic has been mentioned as the major concern by the majority of participants.
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Yara AzizHOST
And back to you, Max, are reserve managers diversifying away from the U.S. dollar?
AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council, July 2026
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Anita KarpiHOST
As you're just back from the UBS Annual Reserve Manager Seminar, what are the key takeaways? Over to you, Max.

Max CastelliGUEST
But I would say that what was odd was also the discussion that we had with a list of internal and external speakers, including academics, ex-governors, and over-investment specialists.
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