PIMCO’s recent annual Investment Summit – this year hosted virtually – aimed to help investors prepare for a world of “Escalating Disruption,” the theme of our recently published secular outlook. Joining the discussions were Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Roman, Group CIO Dan Ivascyn, Global Economic
Prior to the COVID shock, we had anticipated a difficult investment environment subject to a range of long-term disruptors, including China’s rise, populism, technology, and climate-related risks. The pandemic has amplified these disruptors and created an even more challenging landscape for investors. In our latest
The overarching economic goal of China’s leadership is to transform its old growth model to a more sustainable path, addressing the long-term challenges of an aging population, declining productivity and less and less room for policy stimulus. Ongoing policies such as rebalancing, deleveraging, and “Made
Despite a growing economic and technological decoupling between China and the West, the financial divide is actually shrinking. Capital from the U.S. and Europe is flowing into China’s bond market at an unprecedented pace, at least partly due to a search for attractive yield and
Last December, months before travel restrictions and social distancing became the necessary norms, PIMCO joined CFOs from across the globe in Milan for the UN Global Compact’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Investment Forum to catalyze corporate financing for the SDGs. As a co-chair of the