Nicolas Firzli

Paris Forum founder Nic Firzli shares latest advances in private equity allocation (“private markets matrix”), showing pension powers like the UK, Netherlands, Australia, Canada & the US, “controlling jointly more than 70% of the world’s combined assets”, as future funders of the Fifth Industrial Revolution centered on Ai, advanced microchips, transition minerals and renewable energy.…

Our seminal EU ASEAN–G20 primer was republished in Berlin and Singapore ahead of the 2023 Delhi Summit. We argue that our postwar social contract has to cope with unprecedented shocks: Britain’s thorny withdrawal from the EU, worsening Migrant Crisis, rise in populist demagoguery on both sides of the Atlantic & beyond…But there are also positive…

in this 3 September interview w/ Nour Amache on Asharq News with Bloomberg, EU ASEAN director MN Firzli looks at China’s new “supply side” stimulus package passed rather hastily by the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s normally cautious core-policy-making body, led by chairman Xi … “What’s the rush?” It may be that Beijing was caught by…

in his 27 Aug. 2023 interview on Asharq News with Bloomberg, EU ASEAN Centre director Nicolas Firzli looks at the likely geo-economic and financial results of the 15th BRICS Summit (Johannesburg, 22 – 24 Aug, 2023) … much more than the premature notion of a unified “BRICS currency unit” which may eventually rival the US…

The world is witnessing a new strategic moment, with the rise of China’s tech and infrastructure clout across Africa, Latin America & the Greater Arabian Gulf (BRICS led “Global South”), whilst, simultaneously, America and some of its hawkish European allies seemingly seek to promote a Cold War 2 framework for “the West” and “the rest”,…

The Sino-American Age of Geoeconomics is upon us: from energy infrastructure to tech sector startups, it will soon reshape the way we trade, invest and communicate in this reprint of our March 2019 editorial/presentation originally published in Riyadh and Washington, we look at the likely financial and industrial impact of the “intensifying Sino-American race, which…

reprint of our April 3, 2018 editorial published originally by Financial Times Pensions Expert (FT Px) Last year saw the unravelling of the prevailing order that had dominated the world economy since 1946, yet pension trustees feel empowered to flex their fiduciary muscles, if necessary going against their government’s views. On the heels of the Brexit…

in this 20 June 2023 interview on BBC News, Nicolas Firzli, EU ASEAN Ctr., deciphers the Biden White House geo-economic plan: 1) refocus on ASEAN, Australia, India and Japan (to the detriment of Europe and the MENA area), and 2) encircle China, “sapping its tech and engineering mojo”. Biden’s calibrated insults — calling chairman Xi…