Kotkin weighs in on geopolitical risks
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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Managing the risk of fake news
Fraud and falsehoods are nothing new but technology has made it much more difficult to separate fact from fiction. Professor Stephen Kotkin discussed investing in a world of deception.
China, US rivalry looks volatile
Are the two world powers on a collision course for war? Could global investors get smashed between the two? Unfortunately, the answers appear to be yes and yes.
What China’s index inclusion means
The implications for investors of the inclusion of China A-shares in the wider MSCI indexes, an inevitable outcome, will be discussed at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Yale in October.
Pricing geopolitical risk
Geopolitical risk is largely priced in to markets according to the John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, Stephen Kotkin.
Financial system robust but geopolitics poses threat: Bernanke
Former Governor of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, says there are no foreseeable shocks to the financial system. In any case, he says, the system itself is so much more robust than it was before the crisis, that it could weather the storm. The only possible cause for concern is geopolitical risk. Risk
FIS Digital – June 2020