Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 35 years experience covering Asia's economies and markets (equities, fixed income and currencies), including 20 years covering the global economy. He was Chief Economist (SE Asia & India) at Credit Suisse First Boston for 5 years, and Chief Asia (x-Jpn) Economist at Daiwa Securities for a similar period. Among other roles, he was global head of research at Maybank Kim Eng, Malaysia equity research head and chief ASEAN economist at Macquarie, Chief Economist at ICICI Securities, ASEAN economist and Asia sector strategist at UBS and the first chief economist at Khazanah Nasional (where he was co-head of research, and led all agri-business initiatives). PK Basu started his career in the Asia Service of WEFA (Wharton Econometrics) in Philadelphia in 1990, rising to be Director of their Asia Service in June 1994. 
PK's book, "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism" won the Tata Literature First Book Award (non-fiction) for 2018. It is the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia (from Iraq and Turkey to Korea and Japan, and everything in between), told from an Asian perspective.

Chief Economist & Political Strategist

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-Eurozone inflation jumped to 1.8% YoY in January 2017, the highest since February 2013 and perilously close to the ECB's target. With European members of NATO likely to be obliged to raise defense spending substantially, the need for continued QE in the Eurozone is diminishing. As expectations about ECB policy change, the Euro should steadily edge higher.-The US Fed targets the core PCE deflator, which was up 1.7% YoY in December (broadly the same pace as in the previous four months). Although…

-Eurozone inflation jumped to 1.8% YoY in January 2017, the highest since February 2013 and perilously close to the ECB's target. With European members of NATO likely to be obliged to raise defense spending substantially, the need for continued QE in the Eurozone is diminishing. As expectations about ECB policy change, the Euro should steadily edge higher.-The US Fed targets the core PCE deflator, which was up 1.7% YoY in December (broadly the same pace as in the previous four months). Although…

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Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE LN)

Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC (SST LN)

Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC

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HarbourVest Global Private Equity Ltd (HVPE LN)

Inflation Is Back, and Euro Weakness Is Unlikely to Return in 1H 2017