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Patrick Artus

What difficulties for finance today?

We seek to understand a number of new developments and mechanisms in finance: where can traditional financial analysis run into problems ? The link between finance and economic growth is likely to become tenuous, as it is realised that financial markets, particularly equity markets, are no longer used to finance the economy; and since banks may be in trouble for a long time as a result of the very low interest rates; The ultra-expansionary monetary policies completely change the analysis of economic agents' debt and solvency. They also create distortions in financial asset prices , which have the serious consequence of eliminating the information contained in financial market equilibrium prices while no longer allowing a normal calculation of fundamental asset values; Corporate risk premia have risen sharply, whether we look at them in equity markets or in corporate accounts. This development raises an interpretation problem ( what accounts for the rise in corporate risk premia, is this even really a risk premium?), a corporate valuation problem and a monetary policy transmission problem .
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Based across the world’s leading financial centers, Natixis CIB Research offers an integrated view of the markets. The team provides support to inform Natixis clients’ investment and hedging decisions across all asset classes.

 

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Patrick Artus

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