All articles by Daniel Ben-Ami – Page 4
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FeaturesWrong on the recession
The clouds darkened last month. Forecasts of the world’s economics prospects became distinctly gloomier.
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management
Following the group’s reorganisation, SMTAM’s David Semaya outlines ambitious plans to widen their international expansion
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FeaturesDouble standards on trade
No wonder the discussion of trade is in such a tangle. The terminology around the subject is almost designed to cause confusion.
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FeaturesThe right tool for the job
Applying economics models to understand politics is like trying to use a trowel to saw a piece of wood in half
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Special ReportEuro-zone: The risks of reversal
The impact of monetary tightening is one of investors’ main concerns for 2019
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Special Report‘Russians are convinced they were betrayed’
Professor Rainer Wedde of Wiesbaden Business School discusses the forces behind a decade of rising tensions between Russia and the West
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FeaturesSlowing longevity may be a dip
Demographic trends tend to be outcomes rather than causes of broader social shifts
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InterviewsHow we run our money: ÄVWL
Christian Mosel, CEO of Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe, the pension fund for doctors in Germany’s Westphalia-Lippe region, talks about his old-fashioned approach to investment
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Features
Ten Years Since Lehman: Reflections on the crisis
These are edited extracts of interviews with key investment figures on the fallout since the financial crisis of 2008-09
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Special Report
China: No escaping China’s reach
China is influencing the investment world in numerous unexpected ways as a result of its large and growing economic weight
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FeaturesCatching up on China
The typical investor is probably behind the times when it comes to understanding the implications of China’s rise
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: PGIM
David Hunt, the president and CEO of PGIM, draws an analogy between his role as the head of one of the world’s largest asset managers and that of a musical conductor
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Special Report
Reflections on the crisis
IPE canvassed the views of leading economists and politicians on the post-Lehman crisis regulatory and policy response, and on the impact of the crisis on the global financial system
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Special Report
Interview: Xiao Fu, Bank of China International
Xiao Fu, the head of commodity market strategy at the Bank of China International, talks about what will arguably be the biggest infrastructure project the world has ever seen
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FeaturesAvoiding another Lehman
Postponing the difficult decisions involved in tackling the economy’s productive weaknesses will only make matters worse
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Alger
The pain of life and death rarely intrudes into the relatively safe world of the financial markets. But life at its most brutal intruded into the workings of Alger’s headquarters in the World Trade Center on 9/11
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FeaturesTrouble ahead
The current discussion of monetary policy is in some respects reminiscent of that of the mid-2000s
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Special Report
The productivity enigma
The recent uptick in euro-zone productivity growth has gone strangely unnoticed
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FeaturesTechnological diffusion is fraught
It is easy to forget just how long it can take for an invention to become a pervasive technology. Even the most brilliant idea can take time before it is widely adopted
