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31/03/2025 Economy & Markets Demographics will shape future growth potential Shifts like lower fertility and immigration rates will challenge potential growth and tilt population dynamics towards Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
11/06/2024 Economy & Markets Will Productivity turn global growth around? Analysing the causes and effects of the secular decline in productivity growth, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence.
6/06/2024 Economy & Markets Biden vs Trump: high stakes in US elections This paper examines the potential economic and foreign policy changes at stake in the 2024 US elections.
27/03/2024 Emerging Markets Unveiling the value of EM debt The current landscape presents an opportune moment to reconsider the role of Emerging Markets Debt in portfolio allocation, with high nominal yields and...
5/03/2024 Economy & Markets Can the US sustain a rising debt burden? Dive deep into the intricacies of the burgeoning US debt crisis and its profound implications for the finance sector. Explore nuanced fiscal adjustment...
19/06/2023 Economy & Markets 2020s vs 1970s: echoes, not a replay Despite many similarities between the inflationary period in the 1970s and in the 2020s, the two scenarios are not identical.
9/06/2022 Economy & Markets Shifts & Narratives #20 - Stagflation and its roots in capit... Understanding how the misallocation of capital in the last macro-financial regime laid the foundations for the prospect of stagflation today.
2/06/2022 Portfolio Strategy Shifts & Narratives #18 - The power of narratives for invest... Our analysis suggests that narratives complement traditional macro variables when it comes to explaining financial market behaviour.
8/06/2021 Economy & Markets Shifts & Narratives #5 - A unique crisis that opens the way ... The Covid-19 crisis is exceptional in many ways. It is the most serious health crisis since the Spanish flu a century ago. This crisis resulted in an...