Disclaimer: Views in this blog do not promote, and are not directly connected to any Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) product or service. Views are from a range of LGIM investment professionals and do not necessarily reflect the views of LGIM. For investment professionals only.

Unreactive function

Here’s my take on the latest UK GDP numbers, the economic outlook and what that means for the Bank of England’s reaction function on CNBC.

Hetal Mehta

Senior European Economist

Hetal is an economist with a focus on the UK and Europe. She has worked for HM Treasury, Oxford Economics and Daiwa Capital Markets, but her real claim to fame is sharing a stage with Sir Ian McKellen. This love for drama is just as well given the excitement of keeping tabs on [insert latest European country]-xit. Away from work, you'll either find Hetal concocting culinary masterpieces (!) or punching the lights out at a HIIT class.

Articles from this author

Related articles

Economics

Roe-n Burgundy: Anchorman

A wrap up of the Asset Allocation team's latest thoughts on four topics: high yield, trade, Brexit and US interest rates. All handily recorded into bitesize chunks of TV and radio. Stay classy. ;
By John Roe

Economics

Consumer of last resort

Amid all the global economic and market uncertainty, conviction about the macro outlook is low. But the one engine of growth I think we can rely on is the US consumer.;
By Tim Drayson

Economics

China hard landing risk - What can we learn from Japan?

This is the fourth and last in a series of blogs that looks at the risk of a hard landing in the Chinese economy. One problem when assessing this risk is the lack of historical precedents. Very few countries underwent debt build-ups of Chinese proportions, and those that did were usually very small, open economies. The one exception is 1990 Japan which displays some striking similarities with today’s China.;
By Erik Lueth

Sign up for email alerts

Latest articles in a weekly digest

Please select your location

Europe

North America

Asia

Please select your investor type

Please select your investor type