Biography
Olivier Fines, CFA, is head of Advocacy and Capital Markets Policy Research for EMEA at CFA Institute. With teams based in London and Brussels, he leads the effort in researching and commenting on the major trends that affect the investment management industry as well as changes to the profession and policy and regulatory developments. The positions taken on these issues and the research pieces that are published are meant to promote the fundamental principles upheld by CFA Institute, that of investor protection, professional ethics, and market integrity. Fines joined CFA Institute in March 2019 after a 15-year career in investment management spanning research, portfolio management, product management, and regulatory compliance work at firms based in Paris and London. Prior to joining CFA Institute, he was head of Risk and Compliance at Rothschild & Co in London for the private equity and private debt division.
"Wall Street wisdom is that QE is immensely powerful and is stoking financial bubbles. Academics say, 'I take your $100 bills, I give you back 10 $10 bills. Who cares?'"
"The economic problem now is to control inflation and get to work on the supply side of the economy."
John H. Cochrane and Thomas S. Coleman discuss how the fiscal theory of the price level explains inflation.