COVID19 – Time to End the Lock-down?

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - As the discourse in many countries has shifted towards taking steps to ease the lock-down restrictions implemented during March to contain...

Sweden’s Demographic Challenge – The View from Pensionsmydigheten

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - Given the demographic and financial challenges facing pension systems in developed countries, NordSIP was keen to reach out to Pensionsmyndigheten –...

Introducing a User Guide to COVID-19

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - On March 27th, Andrea Galeotti and Paolo Surico, Professors of Economics and the London Business School, published a package of resources...

The Impact of Increasing Life Longevity on Economic Growth

Stockholm (Ekonamik) – Higher per capita income implies better access to housing, education, healthcare and other pleasures in life, which, in turn, tend to...

Magazine (previous issues)

Thriving on Covid-19 Challenges

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - Digitalization has certainly mitigated the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, economies and personal lives. After all, digitalization offers the vital infrastructure...

The Battle of Cheap and Expensive

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - The spread of COVID-19 triggered panic among investors in the first quarter of the year and sent markets reeling and company valuations...

Denmark: A Relative Success Story or Too Soon to Tell?

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - Along with a handful of smaller European countries such as Austria and the Netherlands, Denmark is one nation that appears to...

Challenges and Opportunities in Frontier Markets

Stockhom (Ekonamik) - Given the coverage that Europe and the USA have received regarding the effects of COVID-19, it is easy to forget about...

Will COVID-19 Prove a Watershed for ESG?

by Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, Rick Stathers, senior ESG analyst and climate specialist, Mirza Baig, global head of governance all at Aviva...

Global Cycle: Uniform Shock, Uneven Fiscal Response

by John Butler, Macro Strategist, Wellington Management Many parameters will dictate what different countries’ economies look like coming out of their respective lockdowns — from...

COVID-19: A Bird’s Eye View

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the globe and as the world seeks to lift restrictions ahead of the...

Longevity

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Taking Stock of the CoViD-19 Pandemic

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - In its latest CoVID-19 Situation Report, published on March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified 118,322 cases of Coronavirus 2019,...

The Energy Transition

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Coronavirus Spreading Six Times Faster Than SARS

London (CEBR, Douglas McWilliams) - I should have been flying to Beijing on 16 February. This now seems unlikely. But my problems are minor compared...

US$1 Trillion Green Bonds by the Summer?

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - Global green bond issuance reached US$263 billion in 2019, a 40% increase from 2018 and a far cry from the US$1.8...

Is Inflation Cheap?

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - According to Scott Thiel, Chief Fixed Income Strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute growth is expected to edge upwards in 2020....

AP4 Boosts Alternatives Team

Stockholm (Ekonamik) – Hanna Ideström has recently joined the Alternative Investments team at AP4, one of the buffer funds in the Swedish state pension...

July Issue

CBI, BoE, RBA, PMIs, EcFin Meeting and Spanish Elections

Stockholm (Ekonamik) - The 45th week of 2019 will witness the monetary policy meetings of twelve central banks around the world. Although the most...

The Asset Managers' Corner

Six reasons why it can make sense to buy a bond with a negative yield

Article by Kristjan Mee Strategist, Research and Analytics at Schroders - 4 September 2019 The collapse in global bond yields...

Brazil: Can Bolsonaro Deliver on Reforms?

Article by Art Woo Senior Economist at BMO Capital Markets 29 March 2019 Brazil’s economic prospects have brightened following a...

Will Powell and Poloz Modify Policy Frameworks?

Last November, the Federal Reserve announced that it will review the “strategies, tools, and communication practices it uses to pursue ...

Spring Brake

Ever been rudely interrupted from an idyllic dream, only to face the hard reality of another brutal winter morning, skidding...

Light in the Darkness – a Brighter 2019 for Emerging Markets?

Article originally published by Hermes Investment Management on 28 January 2019. Emerging markets contended with a challenging backdrop in 2018,...

Ahead of the Curve: Pushing the dovish pivot – the US inflation story

Following the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed’s) dovish pivot last month, a significant pick-up in inflation is probably the only development that could justify

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Stockholm (Ekonamik) - Digitalization has certainly mitigated the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, economies and personal lives. After all,...

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