ICMA Podcast

AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council

Listen now to the podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), ICMA's dedicated forum advocating the interests of buy-side members, including asset managers, institutional investors, private banks, pension funds, and insurance companies, among others.

Returning for this episode are industry experts, Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, alongside Massimiliano Castelli, PhD MSc, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, who also serves as the Co-Chair of the AMIC Executive Committee.

In this podcast, recorded on 7th May 2025, the team discussed:

• The evolving US tariff policy and how these policies may affect the economies of the US and its major trading partners. How might other Governments react?
• Whether the independence of the US Federal Reserve is under threat
• Implications for foreign demand for US Treasuries and whether the turmoil could persuade investors to increasingly shift allocations outside the US

If you have questions or topics that you would like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: AMIC@icmagroup.org.

Learn more about AMIC: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/

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