Future risks. The dissatisfaction of considerable sections of the population gave a boost to populist currents in the Western world. The Lerbach Rou [ ... ]

Record player. Jochen Räke sells a product that should no longer exist in the digital world. But because his record players are among the best and  [ ... ]

Bicycles. Canyon Bicycles GmbH from Koblenz is the most successful direct seller of high-quality bicycles - not only in Germany, but throughout Euro [ ... ]

Boat builder. Constructing a boat is a big entrepreneurial risk for a small company. Development work consumes a lot of time and capital. And succes [ ... ]

Hidden champion. Being economically successful is not always easy, even for a globally operating electrical engineering supplier. In a family busine [ ... ]

Real estate development. In the east of Munich, a city grows within a city. The plant district comprises 38 hectares, 600,000 square meters of floor [ ... ]

Succession. Magdalena Messner, 29, has been the administrator and majority shareholder of the Messner Mountain Museums since the beginning of the ye [ ... ]

Innovation. Almost a third of the annual harvests on our planet fall victim to plant diseases and pests. The consequences are fatal: famine, impover [ ... ]

Management buy-out. When Georg Emprechtinger joined the Austrian furniture manufacturer Team 7 in 1999, the company had a regional brand but also a  [ ... ]

CEOs in family businesses. Der CEO ist the most important decision maker in the company. More and more family businesses are deciding to fill this p [ ... ]

Genome editing. After half a century of molecular biological research, scientists can now make precise and targeted interventions in the genetic mat [ ... ]

Interest rate trend. The decisive factor behind the declining interest rates of recent decades was a factor that was often hardly noticed - the ag [ ... ]

Business cycle. After the strong upswing of the past two years, global economic growth appears to have peaked. Is the crash following now? How likel [ ... ]

Monetary policy. With flows of liquidity and zero interest rates, the central banks have stimulated the economy and capital markets. Now they pull t [ ... ]

Panel of experts. The Lerbach group - bankers, asset managers and family officers - meet every early summer in Schloss Bensberg to provide investors [ ... ]

"There were good fundamental reasons for the correction on the equity markets," explains Roland Kaloyan, Head of European Equity Strategy at Sociét [ ... ]

"The turbulence of February was a correction, not a turnaround," says Carsten Klude, chief strategist at M.M.Warburg, "our traffic lights are still  [ ... ]

Investment idea. From the US, an investment alternative is coming to Europe that is perfect for entrepreneurial investors. The participation in Sear [ ... ]

Commitment. Ise Bosch is the granddaughter of Robert Bosch, who founded the largest private foundation in Germany. She herself is also involved as [ ... ]

Airplane car. The combination of driving and flying could revolutionize the traffic of the future. So far, however, the trials have mostly failed du [ ... ]

From the research workshop. The increasing acceptance of egalitarian forms of inheritance of shareholder shares has led in recent decades to the eme [ ... ]

Style. Who likes to live every second? More and more manufacturers are leaving the temporal small and small to electronic systems and recalling thei [ ... ]

Adventure. Bob Bates came from Australia to Papua New Guinea in the mid-1960s as a young engineer. He fell in love with the inaccessible and wild co [ ... ]

Commitment. A sighted person can hardly imagine what it means not to be able to see properly: writing, reading, sewing, repairing things, harvesting [ ... ]

From the research workshop. Successful management of large shareholder groups erfordert Antworten on special family strategy issues. In private weal [ ... ]

Pleasure. Only a few manufacturers worldwide have the specialist knowledge required to manufacture high-quality humidors. At Gerber, a Duisburg fami [ ... ]

Entrepreneurship. Management consultant Roland Berger, almost 80 years old, is still an entrepreneur. He can't let go of new business ideas or the c [ ... ]