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Key takeaways
COVID-19 has accelerated trends that we thought would play out over a decade.
The COVID-19 shock has mainly been a shock to corporations (not households), leaving a monumental hole in corporate balance sheets.
The Developed World Populism Index has spiked significantly in recent years.
It has never been more difficult to be an investor. Diversification is more important than ever but more difficult than ever to achieve.
The hole in the real economy is harder to fill than the hole in the financial economy.
Companies are recognising that if they are not willing to proactively become more purposeful, they will be forced to do so (or forced out of existence).
We can get through this difficult period – it was done after each World War, but there will be very tricky policy decisions to make along the way as policy makers will have to prioritise what they want to achieve.
The Florida State Board of Administration has made some strategic moves to take advantage of opportunities in the dislocation, including in private equity, distressed debt and active listed equities.. But CIO, Ash Williams, is concerned about the underlying real economy.
As trade wars between the US and China dominate financial markets, Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin has assured pension funds that the world order that has been in place since World War II remains intact.
Understanding the fractious relationship between US and China is more important– and simultaneously more confronting – than it has been in the past, according to Stephen Kotkin, professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University. While the China investment challenge has always been to capture the aspirational middleclass, the high-profile historian says “the big money that’s going to be made in China is going to be made from the dislocation”.
Institutional investors' investment strategy should be serving the China middle class and the dislocation from within Asia, according to Stephen Kotkin,Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University speaking at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Cambridge University. He explored what the geopolitical conflicts of the past can teach us about the future. He looked at some of the key points in history, how China, the European Union and the US have survived, and what it means for the future.
Whither United States-China? Stephen Kotkin, Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University and adviser to conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com, discusses the changing nature of the complex relationship between the US and China and the struggle underway as these two large economies find their positions in the economic and technological hierarchy. So what should investors watch for?
The China-US trade war is the latest development in a tense relationship that threatens to bubble over into war over Taiwan, “incinerating” portfolios, Stephen Kotkin said.
Global tensions are an important consideration in decision-making. At a recent roundtable, geopolitical expert professor Stephen Kotkin discussed the risks related to China and the US.
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