Pimco's CEO Sees 55% Chance of Slowdown Over Next Two Years
Published Sep 14, 2018 02:17PM ET
Updated Sep 14, 2018 04:00PM ET
Pimco's CEO Sees 55% Chance of Slowdown Over Next Two Years
(Bloomberg) -- The chances of an economic slowdown are low in the next 12 months but more than even -- 55 percent -- within the next two years, according to Emmanuel “Manny” Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co.
The economy is relatively healthy now, especially in the U.S. and China, with the odds of a recession in 12 months about 15 percent to 20 percent, Roman said Friday in a webcast interview in New York with David Solomon, the incoming CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). But the possibility of rising inflation from a tight labor market or other causes could spur the Federal Reserve to accelerate interest rate hikes, which could put the brakes on economic growth, according to Roman.
“The risk is that somehow we got something wrong,” he said. “Either there’s more inflation than we think there is or either unemployment goes down really dramatically and the labor market becomes very, very tight.”
Pimco, a unit of Allianz (DE:ALVG) SE, oversees more than $1.7 trillion in assets. Roman worked for Goldman for 18 years and headed Man Group Plc before he was named Pimco’s CEO in 2016.
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