AXA Investment Managers brought two new hires to its macroeconomics team, with the addition of Gabriella Dickens as a G7 economist and Danny Richards as EM Asia economist.
Dickens was previously with Pantheon Macroeconomics, working as the UK economist across areas including employment, wage growth, house prices, mortgage rates, inflation and GDP. She previously spent almost three years with Capital Economics where she was promoted to global economist.
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Richards was a lead economist at GlobalData for 12 years before taking on the new role with AXA and spent over a decade at the Economist Intelligence Unit as senior editor and economist until 2012.
David Page, head of macroeconomic research at AXA IM, said: “At AXA IM we strive to provide the best possible insights into economies and markets for our fund managers and clients to make well informed investment decisions. Continuing in that vein, we believe Gabriella and Danny bring with them a wealth of experience and will help us provide timely insights into the G7 and emerging market Asia economies.”
AXA IM holds €844bn in assets under management, over half of which are in ESG-integrated, sustainable, or impact investments as of the end of 2023.
