Kathryn Koch
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- Milken Institute57 min
Macroeconomic Outlook | Global Conference 2025
Gregory Zuckerman, Khalid Al-Falih, André Esteves, Karen Karniol Tambour, Kathryn Koch, Ron O'Hanley
Leading financial experts analyze the convergence of political volatility, trade uncertainty, and shifting geopolitical alignments that are driving a global reevaluation of U.S. exceptionalism and prompting investors to diversify into Asian markets, the UK, and the Middle East. The panel highlights critical macroeconomic headwinds, including a "baked-in" recession risk and a Federal Reserve constrained by tariff-induced inflation, which are forcing a repricing of Treasury yields and exposing vulnerabilities in risk assets. Amidst these challenges, private credit emerges as a vital, though stress-tested, innovation for risk dispersion, while advocates for conservative lending strategies and active management position themselves to capitalize on the expected rise in defaults and liquidity dislocations.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Asset Management Upheaval | Global Conference 2024
Matt Brown, Kamal Bhatia, Dan Bienvenue, Kathryn Koch, Jose Minaya, Tony Minella
Asset management leaders converge to analyze how persistent higher interest rates and a "higher-for-longer" environment are reshaping investment strategies toward senior secured lending and integrated public-private portfolios. The discussion highlights accelerating industry consolidation driven by the need for permanent capital through insurance partnerships, while simultaneously tracking the democratization of alternatives via 401(k) regulatory changes and a pivot toward outcome-based sustainable investing. Experts forecast a coming private credit distress cycle within 24 months that will separate top-tier managers from laggards, even as structural demographic shifts and AI-driven public market growth dominate long-term outlooks beyond short-term political cycles.