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Mohamed El-Erian is President of Queens’ College, Cambridge University, an advisor to Allianz and Gramercy and a best selling author. He previously served as chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco, deputy director of the IMF and president and CEO of Harvard Management Company. He is the Rene M. Kern Practice Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Markets InsightPassive Investing
    Why passive investing makes less sense in the current environment

    This is an investment world that will reward much greater selectivity and dynamic asset allocation

  • Monday, 9 January, 2023
    Markets InsightGlobal Economy
    We need to pay more attention to misaligned economic signals

    Investors should be wary of a repeat of last year’s ‘transitory inflation’ type of mistake

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    Next year’s unpleasant choices confronting the Fed

    Central bank might stick officially to 2% inflation target but, in practice, pursue a higher one

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Markets InsightUS economy
    The consensus forecast on recession risks complacency

    Planning for a range of outcomes is preferable to relying on a shaky prediction

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    Markets InsightCapital markets
    BoJ’s inevitable pivot looms as a risk for markets

    Central bank faces a tricky but necessary exit from its ‘yield curve control’ policy

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    Markets InsightGlobal economic growth
    A collective will to tackle global challenges needs more tools

    IMF meetings yet to align better awareness of major economic problems with the scale of action required

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    Markets InsightUK business & economy
    UK damage just starting if market disorder is allowed to persist

    What the government and Bank of England need to do now before the situation gets even more problematic

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Markets InsightMarkets
    The rollercoaster ahead for the economy and investors

    US central bank policy mistakes and market stress are worrisome possibilities in the months ahead

  • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
    Markets InsightJerome H. Powell
    Jay Powell is focusing too much on the present

    The central banker missed an opportunity to regain control of the Federal Reserve’s policy narrative

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    Markets InsightUS economy
    It is too early to declare risk of US recession is over

    Rate rises and the contraction of the Fed’s balance sheet may still pull the rug from under the economy and markets

  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    Markets InsightEmerging market investing
    How to invest in emerging markets

    Historically cheap pricing is not enough given the macro headwinds

  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
    Markets InsightUS inflation
    US inflation surge signals tough times ahead

    The damage from the sharp rise in prices has already been unleashed

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    The risk of a flip-flopping Fed

    There is a danger of the classic ‘stop-go’ trap that haunted many western central banks in the 1970s and 1980s

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Markets InsightCentral banks
    Central banks and markets share a secular awakening

    There is no hiding from the long-term transition to more challenging financial conditions

  • Monday, 30 May, 2022
    Markets InsightPrivate equity
    Private equity cannot avoid the reckoning in markets

    Both the real economy and the financial system are in a destabilising phase for both public and private investors

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Markets InsightUS Dollar
    The dollar’s rapid rise increases risks for global economy

    Dangers are particularly acute for developing countries already facing number of crises

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Markets InsightMonetary policy
    Investors face volatility as demand stalls amid supply disruptions

    Central bank tightening will pressure an already-slowing global economy

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Federal Reserve
    Monetary policy must serve the real economy not just financial markets

    Two-decade-long market dominance over monetary policy threatened by high and persistent inflation

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    World
    Stocks’ mysterious strength should not stop investors acting

    Those heavily exposed should make the most of the strength of equities and take some chips off the table

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Markets InsightWar in Ukraine
    Market fallout from Ukraine war combines the risks of past crises

    Global economy faces some of the same challenges of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s — but all simultaneously

  • Saturday, 26 February, 2022
    Markets InsightWar in Ukraine
    Six factors to guide investors during Ukraine turmoil

    Portfolios will need to be prepared to deal with a wide range of ‘what if’ scenarios

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    Markets InsightMarkets
    There is more to market volatility than Ukraine

    Investors need strong stomachs to deal with large swings in asset prices

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    Markets InsightMonetary policy
    Fed and ECB still behind the inflation curve

    Central banks risk a pile-up of monetary policy tightening as inflation expectations become more embedded

  • Monday, 24 January, 2022
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    Bold policy response needed to restore Fed credibility on inflation

    Central bank’s policy-setting committee must catch up to realities of rising prices

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Markets InsightGlobal inflation
    The key to 2022 will be how inflation is brought down

    In misjudging the risk of rising prices, the Fed gave markets a profitable 2021 but more difficult year ahead

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