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Exploring Europe's Funding Deficit: The Possibilities of Utilizing Institutional Investors for Capital Growth

Enhancing pension coverage through automatic enrollment may stimulate long-term investment and secure savers' funds, potentially helping the EU fill its investment shortage.

Bridging Europe's Infrastructure Funding Shortfall: Exploring the Prospects of Institutional...
Bridging Europe's Infrastructure Funding Shortfall: Exploring the Prospects of Institutional Investors Capitalization

Exploring Europe's Funding Deficit: The Possibilities of Utilizing Institutional Investors for Capital Growth

David Pinkus, a renowned economist, has joined our website as an Affiliate Fellow, with a tenure until May 2025. Dr. Pinkus holds a PhD in Economics from Copenhagen Business School and is affiliated with the university's Pension Research Centre (PeRCent).

With a strong academic background, Dr. Pinkus also holds an M.Sc. in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and a B.Sc. in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. His expertise lies in social welfare policies and the intersection of financial markets with the real economy.

Dr. Pinkus's work primarily addresses the challenges social security systems face due to an ageing population. He also investigates the wider economic effects of funded pension systems and institutional investors. However, the two authors who conducted the work on the investment gap in the European Single Market and the potential impact of insurance companies and pension funds on the financial security of EU households are not explicitly named in the provided search results.

From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Pinkus worked as a consultant at the OECD's Long-Term Investment Project, researching policies to enable institutional investors to finance infrastructure under a G20 mandate. Despite his extensive experience, it should be noted that no previous fact mentioned that Dr. Pinkus has experience analyzing commodity markets, international financial markets, or geopolitical risk in oil markets.

Dr. Pinkus is fluent in German, French, and English, in addition to being a native German speaker. Interestingly, no previous fact mentioned that he shares a common language or fluency in Japanese with anyone.

As we welcome Dr. Pinkus to our team, we look forward to the insights and contributions he will bring to our readers. His expertise and research will undoubtedly provide valuable perspectives on the economic challenges and opportunities facing our world today.

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