How Radical Demographic Shifts Around The World Are Changing How Assets Are Valued
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When we think about financial assets, we usually think of their price as being derived from some set of intrinsic characteristics. A stock price may be a function of growth, margins, interest rates, and a few other things. For government bonds, we might say that inflation and growth are the big components. It's easy to forget that financial assets are goods sold on a market consisting of humans with their own demand and consumption needs. On this week's Odd Lots, we speak to Amlan Roy, Global Chief Retirement Strategist at State Street Global Advisors, about how radical changes to demographics all over the world has changed the supply and demand framework for financial assets, and thus the price of government bonds.
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