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 25th February 2025, the team discussed:

• Following the general election result in Germany, what is the outlook for the German economy, and what is the knock-on effect for the Eurozone and the ECB .
• Update on US economic policy under the new Trump administration. Government and Fed policy.
• What’s changed in China?
• In the near term what do you see as the major risk factors to capital markets, and what about potential market volatility.

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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