Low interest rates, political risk new normal for investors
Economist Shamubeel Eaqub said people needed to realise that the world was changing. “This time is different and they need to plan for their portfolios accordingly,” he said.
“We have never lived in this kind of environment before, when the economic conditions have been so confusing, new and different. It is different this time. It is only in this world that Trump could be a viable candidate for the presidency of the United States.”
Investors now needed to think seriously about how they would manage political, geopolitical and economic risk to their investments, he said.
It was clear that disenfranchised, lower-income people in countries such as Britain and the United States were starting to take a stand – and that was something that could affect New Zealand as well.
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