Bert Gochet on China Risks, India’s Future and Brazil’s Commodities

Bert is a macro strategist at Macro Hive, specialising in Emerging Markets strategy. Between 2009 and 2017, he was co-head of EM strategy with a focus on fixed income and currencies at JP Morgan. He held other senior research roles at Bank of America and UBS in the 2000s. Bert has lived in all time zones, from Latin America and the US via Europe to Asia. On this podcast we discussed: 

1) How the Fed and de-globalisation impacts EM. 2) Democratic commodity EM vs autocratic manufacturing EM. 3) China’s COVID policy and what it means for macro. 4) Are investors too pessimistic on China growth? 5) China’s new types of stimulus. 6) Chinese yuan weakness and tariffs. 7) China/Taiwan risks. 8) Modi’s performance as India PM. 9) India’s inflation challenge. 10) Flows from China to India. 11) Brazil’s commodity play. 12) Leftist politics in Latin America. 13) Latam’s inflation sensitivity