Kate Moore welcomes Eric Van Nostrand, CIO of Lazard Asset Management and former Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, and Conrad Dequadros, Head of Economics at Citi Wealth's Chief Investment Office, to debate the forces shaping global markets in 2H25.
Key discussion points:
A shifting macro regime: Why the move from demand- to supply-driven dynamics may be leaving investors anchored to the wrong playbook.
Inflation and the Fed: Why the path back to 2% will be uneven and why consensus on inflation may be the most important call investors are getting wrong.
Geopolitics and energy: How oil and supply chain disruptions create risks that merit consideration—and what that means for consumers.
Portfolio construction: From gold as ballast to shorter duration fixed income, which assumptions still hold and which deserve a fresh look.
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