Adriano B. Lucatelli

Adriano B. Lucatelli (born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss entrepreneur in the financial services industry.

Life

Adriano Lucatelli was born on 23 February 1966 in Uster near Zurich, Switzerland. His father’s family originated from Apulia in southern Italy, and worked primarily in agriculture and the textile industry. His mother’s family comes from central Switzerland. His great-grandfather was the entrepreneur and pioneer in electricity Zeno Durrer, and his great uncle was Ludwig von Moos, a member of the Swiss federal government (the Swiss Federal Council).

Education and career

Lucatelli studied international affairs and economics at the University of Nevada, Reno (BA) and at the London School of Economics (MSc) and obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on global financial market regulation. Parallel to his career he has also completed an MBA program at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), an advanced management program at the Wharton School and an executive program at the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

Since 2009, Lucatelli has been an entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He started his career in 1994 at Credit Suisse, where he held various managerial positions in Zurich and London. From 2002 to 2009 Lucatelli was managing director and member of the management committee at UBS Switzerland in Lugano and Zurich.

From 2012 to 2018, he lectured at the University of Zurich on the political economy of international finance.

Publications and commentaries

In the course of his career Lucatelli has published various articles in newspapers, journals and online magazines and has authored the books Finance and World Order (1997),[1] Off-Target Corporate Governance (2013),[2] and The Fine Art of Efficient Investing (2015).[3] In 2018, he co-authored with Lucienne C. Vaudan “Eine kurze Reise durch die Finanzmärkte.”[4] He was a regular guest at the business TV channel CNN Money Switzerland.

Investment expertise

Lucatelli is a well-known financial expert. Before the dotcom crash in July 2000 he correctly warned that the majority of the new internet firms would disappear.[5] In March 2014, he accurately set a target of 3,000 index points for the S&P 500 Index by mid-2019.[6] And in December 2017, Lucatelli predicted the Bitcoin sell-off from January 2018.[7]

Added to this Lucatelli, in collaboration with Ernst Fehr, was the first to calculate the Market-Adjusted Performance Indicator (MAPI) for listed Swiss companies.[8] The indicator shows that good management systematically creates value for shareholders, reflected in the fact that shares of these companies outperform the broad Swiss Performance Index (SPI), in some cases by a considerable margin.

Awards & recognition

In 2011, he earned the Distinguished Alumni Award[9] from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada.

From 2017 to 2019, the Swiss business magazine "Bilanz" chose him among the top 100 Swiss bankers.[10]

Extraprofessional activities

Lucatelli is an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha (the National Political Science Honor Society) and a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.

In 1993, Lucatelli spent six months at the General Secretariat of Amnesty International in Switzerland.

He is also an enthusiastic aviatist and flies helicopters himself.[11]

Quotes

"If finance can't improve the lives of people, we have no use for it."

"Visions also have to be solidly financed."

"What is wrong economically can't be right politically."

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References
  1. Finance and world order: financial fragility, systemic risk, and transnational regimes. Greenwood Press, Westport, ISBN 978-0-313-30378-4.
  2. Off-Target Corporate Governance or How Not to Throw Good Money after Bad. Versus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03909-155-3
  3. The Fine Art of Efficient Investing or How to Make Sure You Sleep Better at Night. Versus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03909-195-9
  4. Eine kurze Reise durch die Finanzmärkte. Versus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03909-265-9
  5. Börse: «Irrationaler Überschwang». Basler Zeitung, 22/23 July 2000, p. 24
  6. Stock markets: growth in sight? merlini finance, Kilchberg, 14 March 2014
  7. Rundschau SRF, 13 December 2017
  8. Adriano B. Lucatelli: Share Price Doesn't Tell the Whole Truth finews.ch, 26 February 2016
  9. Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients. unr.edu
  10. Die 100 Top-Banker der Schweiz Bilanz, 27 September 2019
  11. Heusser, Harry: Eine exklusive Liebhaberei Millionär 03/2019, pp. 10ff., September 2019
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