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2024-10-25 at 10:56  
Every effort is made to achieve economic growth. A topical book on this theme is "Growth” by Daniel Susskind. What makes it topical is that currently there is no growth, which is a major cause for concern. Germany is seeing negative growth for the...
2024-10-10 at 13:15  
Europe is looking for a new direction. The current trend needs to be reversed to achieve growth and catch up with the United States and China in the economic race. Ex-Prime Minister Enrico Letta and ex-Central Banker Mario Draghi have presented...
2024-09-20 at 14:20  Timo Löyttyniemi
Geopolitics offers little cause for celebration. There is no light in the tunnel and no bridge over the troubled waters. The West is compelled to rearm itself, and the will to do so is strong. While many structural and economic obstructions to...
2024-07-08 at 9:35  Timo Löyttyniemi
Clearly more innovations are made in the United States than in Europe. Several attempts have been made to respond to this situation. A wide range of initiatives have been launched to encourage innovation. As it is, US technological giants lead the...
2024-06-25 at 11:06  Timo Löyttyniemi
There is a consensus that it is desirable for people to keep working for longer. Work, at its best, has the power to bring us joy, raise revenue for the government and leave the pension system on a more sustainable footing. When people are able to...
2024-05-28 at 12:05  Timo Löyttyniemi
The approaching EU elections are more important than ever. There is a full-scale war on European soil, and Europe is facing hybrid threats on a daily basis. One European state is defending the whole of Europe while another is attacking the...
2024-05-16 at 10:38  Timo Löyttyniemi
The green transition presents a major global challenge, which has recently been aggravated by a number of new obstacles. Geopolitics has affected policy-makers’ priorities, high interest rates are creating uncertainty among investors, and global...
2024-04-11 at 13:25  Timo Löyttyniemi
Geopolitics has changed for decades to come. A global division of states into separate camps is underway, coupled with the rise of the defence industry around the world. For Europe and Finland, this transition offers a major opportunity to expand...
2024-03-14 at 14:19  Timo Löyttyniemi
For a long time now, investors have been keen to increase investments in private markets outside stock-exchange markets. The trend held up until 2022. As the values of listed equities and debt securities plummeted in 2022, many institutional...
2024-03-08 at 13:24  Timo Löyttyniemi
Investors are waiting and hoping for interest rates to fall in Europe. Underlying these expectations are the decreasing inflation figures that are approaching the regular 2% mark. The latest published consumer inflation rate was 2.6%. This is...
2024-01-26 at 11:55  Timo Löyttyniemi
Whatever central banks say has an impact. Their communications and statements are needed because there is a lot of confidence in central banks. In the latest Bank of America survey, institutional investors were reported as saying that by far the...
2023-12-14 at 11:02  Timo Löyttyniemi
The themes for 2024 are largely the same as for 2023, primarily geopolitics and monetary policy, followed by a weakening economy. At least as far as geopolitics is concerned, 2024 could well be described as the “year of solutions”. As the list ...
2023-11-24 at 11:18  Timo Löyttyniemi
The Dutch pension system is being completely overhauled. The Mercer Global Pension Index ranked the Dutch pension system as the best in the world in its October report this year. Nevertheless, the system will be completely overhauled. T...
2023-10-11 at 12:50  Timo Löyttyniemi
A pension investor is called upon to make several assumptions. They are necessary at the system-wide level, for investment activities as well as for determining pension liabilities. What are the key assumptions for a pension investor? Wh...
2023-10-06 at 12:19  Timo Löyttyniemi
The efforts to develop any pension system are very much path-dependent. The starting point is the current state of the system, which determines the options available for developing it. However, it makes sense to examine the big pictur...
2023-09-21 at 13:58  Timo Löyttyniemi
It is a time of change in geopolitics. Many things drive economies and economic systems apart. Globalisation, and in particular financial globalisation, is taking a step backwards. Similarly, technological development, production and technologic...
2023-06-28 at 14:37  
The real estate market plays a major role in the economy. The long period of low interest rates has pushed up property prices and also enabled brisk new construction. However, the real estate market is now in a state of flux, with several factors...
2023-05-16 at 11:13  Timo Löyttyniemi
Interest rates are now at normal levels and this makes for a new investment environment. If there is one good thing to come out of inflation, it is the normalisation of interest rates.  The changes are considerable. The leap in the interest...
2023-03-29 at 11:35  Timo Löyttyniemi
A crisis needs a fitting name. The financial markets are struggling with problems that make it necessary for governments and central banks to step in. The current situation meets the criteria for financial instability. We should find a descriptive...
2023-03-29 at 11:07  
In recent weeks, we have received news of crises threatening a number of banks. People wonder if this means a new banking crisis or if it is just a crisis affecting a few banks. After all, there is a big difference between the two. Is there cause...
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