Economy

Customer risk aversion is presenting an opportunity

In 2020 the COVID-19 crisis dragged the world’s financial markets to significant volatility and forced investors to massive redemptions. However, it is during these periods of uncertainty that companies need to embrace new opportunities and guarantee to their customers clear and open communication as well as solid client servicing. This has accelerated the pace of business both in the Philippines and around the globe, with companies speeding up a digital transformation that has changed the way customers interact with financial professionals.

Farm product prices, redistribution, and the early Great Depression in the US

Like the current economic crisis in the US, the Great Depression led to large redistributions of income among sectors and households. Perhaps most important, falling farm product prices shifted income away from farmers. This column argues that this redistribution explains between 10% and 30% of the US output decline in 1930. Recovery from the Great Depression began in 1933 in part because farm product prices rose, reversing this redistribution.

Customer risk aversion is presenting an opportunity

In 2020 the COVID-19 crisis dragged the world’s financial markets to significant volatility and forced investors to massive redemptions. However, it is during these periods of uncertainty that companies need to embrace new opportunities and guarantee to their customers clear and open communication as well as solid client servicing. This has accelerated the pace of business both in the Philippines and around the globe, with companies speeding up a digital transformation that has changed the way customers interact with financial professionals.

Farm product prices, redistribution, and the early Great Depression in the US

Like the current economic crisis in the US, the Great Depression led to large redistributions of income among sectors and households. Perhaps most important, falling farm product prices shifted income away from farmers. This column argues that this redistribution explains between 10% and 30% of the US output decline in 1930. Recovery from the Great Depression began in 1933 in part because farm product prices rose, reversing this redistribution.

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