Jacob Nielsen
Jacob Ellinge Nielsen is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency (EMD HC) Team at Janus Henderson Investors. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, he was a co-lead portfolio manager on the EMD HC team at Danske Bank Asset Management from 2013. Before that, he was lead emerging markets debt hard and local currency portfolio manager at Sparinvest from 2008. Earlier, he was a fixed income portfolio manager, focusing on Danish mortgage bonds and EUR government bonds at The Danish Pension Funds for Engineers from 2006. Jacob began his career as an assistant analyst on the Danish mortgage and derivative research team at Nordea Markets in 2002.
Jacob holds an MSc degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen. He has 23 years of financial industry experience.
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IMF: A new world order and the implications for Emerging Markets
A new paradigm founded upon fewer rules-based US policies points to a more uncertain global economy and could even signal US recession, but what does it mean for the emerging markets?
Resilient emerging markets debt faces US policy uncertainty in 2025
The emerging markets debt hard currency team explore how the asset class performed in Trump 1.0 and if there are any lessons to be learned for 2025.