Ian Harnett Speaks at the Plenary session of the Absa Group 2025 Macro and Risk Management Conference

At the Absa Corporate and Investment Banking's Macro & Risk Management Conference 2025, ASR’s Co-Founder & Chief Investment Advisor Ian Harnett delivered a compelling presentation covering the shifting order of trade and capital flows and their implications for global portfolio construction.

Some of the highlights:

 • How NBFIs have reshaped private investment patterns 

 • An altered stock-bond correlation

 • EU / UK / RoW growth dynamics

 • The impact of the AI-related Capex

 • Results from ASR’s latest Asset Allocation survey—what global allocators are assigning high probability to, and where they find conviction. 

 • Thoughts on the Biggest Risk at the moment

🎥 Watch further here (13:00 – 56:00)