geopolitical risk

Emerging Markets

Asia still the epicentre of global growth, but with greater headwinds

Asia will remain the epicentre of global growth during 2023, but rising global headwinds will drive greater variation between markets, experts predict. Ben Hurley examines the outlook for the region ahead of the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore next month.

Ben HurleyFebruary 9, 2023

Risk

Kotkin warns of Ukraine break up as key geopolitical risk

It is not war between Russia and Ukraine that investors should be concerned about, according to Professor Stephen Kotkin, but the destabilising effects of Russia’s actions that could impact globalisation and harm the west. Watch this video interview with Princeton University's geopolitical expert.

Amanda WhiteFebruary 17, 2022

FIS Digital – November 2021

Climate, China and The Fed: Kotkin’s big risks ahead

The climate emergency, China and Federal Reserve policy pose the most systemic investor risk ahead according to Stephen Kotkin, Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University, who said a dramatic misstep from the US Federal Reserve could cause a massive dislocation.

Sarah RundellNovember 4, 2021

FIS Digital – December 2020

Biden’s headwinds; Trump phenomena fades

Joe Biden has come to the presidency with all the ingredients for success however there are a number of sweeping global trends underway that will continue whoever is in the White House. Professor Stephen Kotkin examines these trends and looks at where there may be geopolitical risk under a Biden presidency.

Sarah RundellDecember 10, 2020

COVID-19

Investors wary of a fragmented world

As geopolitical risks increasingly stalk developed markets, asset owners sifting through the noise for long-term trends believe a fragmented world is here to stay. We spoke to CalSTRS, OPTrust, PFA and USS about the impact on their portfolios.

Sarah RundellNovember 17, 2020

FIS Digital – June 2020

Understanding US/China relations

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”.

Elizabeth FryJune 19, 2019