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About Robert Kowit
Currently very interested in themes of financial repression. 50 years experience in International Fixed Income and foreign Exchange Senior positions with White Weld, Kidder Peabody , Midland Montagu, John Hancock and the last 25 years Federated Hermes. Developed the first platform to invest in trade finance assets and was lead author on a peer reviewed paper "Trade Finance as a Financial Asset: Risks and risk mitigants for non bank investors" Speaker at IMF World Bank annual meeting on the topic of local currency bond markets. Contributor to World Bank Handbook on Government Bond Markets Contributor to "Trade Wars are Class Wars" by Michael Pettis. Currently active in initiatives of the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Trade and Forfaiting Association to bring more financial investors to fill the $3 billion funding gap in global trade finance.NBN Episodes hosted by Robert:
March 13, 2024
Investing in U.S. Financial History
Mark J. Higgins
Hosted by
Robert Kowit
Most people rely only on their life experience to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape econ…
December 21, 2022
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency
Gary Stern
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Robert Kowit
What's going on in private markets? As interest rates have gone up, public markets have been marked down much more severely than assets in the private…
June 28, 2022
Does Financial Repression Work?
Michael Pettis
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Robert Kowit
Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He started his career in banking in 1987 just in time for…