Dirk Willer On Emerging Markets Rallying, EM Inflation And Latam Challenges

This episode is supported by private equity platform Moonfare.

In this show, I talk with Dr. Dirk Willer. He’s a Managing Director and Global Head of Emerging Markets FX and Fixed Income Strategy at Citigroup in NY. His research covers global emerging markets for FX, local rates, and credit. Dirk and his team have been ranked as the top team in the 2019 institutional investor survey for emerging markets strategy in FX and rates. Previously, Dirk worked at Omega Advisors and RHG Capital as a global macro strategist and at Swiss Bank as Russia strategist. He’s also recently published an excellent new book called “Trading Fixed Income and FX in Emerging Markets: A Practitioner′s Guide”.  In this podcast we discuss:

1. How markets treated the US election like an EM election
2. Impact of Biden’s win on major EM
3. Why EM does well with the vaccine breakthroughs
4. Which EM will do best in post-COVID world
5. Will EM inflation pick up?
6. Can EM survive higher US rates?
7. Is China a good long-term buy?
8. Should we be worried about Brazil’s fiscal numbers?
9. How much does EM depend on global factors?
10. Trading rules for EM markets
11. Books that influenced Dirk: Market Wizards, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism