Nicolas Firzli

In this executive summary of our upcoming Institutional Investment Research (IIR) primer (tb published in Waals-Brabant later this month), M. Nicolas Firzli, DG, World Pensions Council, Chair, G7 Pensions Investment Roundtable, discusses recent M&A trends in the PE/VC and infrastructure funds space Earlier today, Vontobel, the Swiss asset manager, announced it had acquired “a significant…

World Pensions Council director Maher Nicolas Firzli live-comments the IMF’s revised growth outlook for the world economy in an exclusive interview with Maya Hojeij on Asharq News with Bloomberg “US resilience, driven by high tech consumerism and modern infrastructure spending, is quite remarkable: a testament to corporate America’s nimbleness in times of trouble, and, also,…

Singapore Forum director MN Firzli joined Asharq News with Bloomberg for an exclusive interview on “uranium price dynamics in a fractured world economy”. Kazakh mining giant Kazatomprom, by far the world’s leading producer and exporter of uranium, with 35%+ of the market, now expects production shortfalls for the next two years, and France, once a…

World Pensions Council director Nicolas Firzli interprets the “blurred signals sent by the Biden administration as America enters a pivotal electoral year [Biden/Trump replay], where the White House is facing rising pressures at home from progressive Democrat lawmakers and environmental groups, and seemingly insolvable geo-economic risks abroad”: Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Gaza Strip, China/Taipei authorities, Yemen/Red Sea shipping……

in this liminary interview on Asharq News with Bloomberg, World Pensions Council director Nicolas Firzli looks at foreign direct investment (FDI) dynamics for 2024 in selected Asia Pacific, Arabian Gulf and African jurisdictions. The situation will remain “rather challenging in Egypt and Turkey… notably because of the lingering tensions between imported inflation, currency stabilization and…

M. Nicolas Firzli, the Hon. Nick Sherry & Christopher Smith, co-chaired the G7 Retirement Investment Roundtable (GRiR) and European ESG & Impact Summit (EES), 7–10 December 2023, held in the EU Capital at the start of the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council (1S_24). In this exclusive interview with Mohd. Fathy on Asharq News with Bloomberg, Western Asia’s…

MN Firzli is founder & director-general of World Pensions Council (WPC), and cofounder of the G20 and World Bank–led Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) Advisory Board (AB), and an adviser to, inter alia, North American, EU and ASEAN policy makers, focusing on the mobilization of foreign direct investment (FDI) in private markets assets, technological innovation and…

in their keynote address to the 2023 GMB Forum held in Borneo, Malaysia, 28–30 November 2023, on the eve of the Dubai COP 28 Summit, Maher Nicolas Firzli, World Pensions, and Christopher Smith, City of Westminster, shared their personal views re fostering peaceful coexistence at home and abroad, strengthening inter-national financial cooperation, and the need…