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Europe’s Low-Growth Trap & How Private Capital Can Jumpstart GDP(EUforum)
in his 19 Sept. 2023 interview on Asharq News with Bloomberg, EU ASEAN Centre (EAC) & Paris Private Equity Roundtable (PER) director MN Firzli looks at the alarming economic news coming from Berlin, London and other European capitals: growth has stalled and inflation is back with a vengeance, leaving Europe behind as US, Australian, ASEAN…
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Private Equity Moving Center Stage for Pension & SWF Asset Owners (Paris Forum)
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.…
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G20 Shifting the Trillions : Impact Investing, Green Infrastructure and Inclusive Growth
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…
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Chairman Xi & Ms. Raimondo Don’t “Share the Same Dream” for China and the World
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…
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Biden’s Response to “BRICS+” and Dedollarization: Understanding America’s Overtures to Central Asia, Iran and Venezuela
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…
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BRICS Bloc, China’s Bold Infrastructure Ambitions, and the ‘New Great Game’
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”,…
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Asia, the Arabian Gulf and the US-China Rivalry: Long-Term Investor Perspective
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…
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Greening, Governance and Growth in the Age of Popular Empowerment
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…
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Blinken in Beijing: US “Pivot” and Quest for Tech Supremacy
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…
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Myanmar Shielded from UN Critique As Cold War 2 Accelerates
8 August 2023 interview on BBC News Nicolas Firzli, EU ASEAN Center, assesses the situation in Rangoon in light of the recent findings of the United Nations Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar. The Burmese junta is “not likely to be overly affected by the report”: Myanmar’s military rulers are de facto shielded by the country’s remarkable…