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Karl Desmond
Senior Product Manager, Strategic Beta, Columbia Threadneedle
Karl Desmond is the Senior Product Manager of Columbia Threadneedle’s ETF suite, which includes strategic beta, thematic and actively managed funds. His responsibilities encompass both product management and new product development initiatives.
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Capturing the World’s Largest Growth Story: the Emerging Markets Consumer
3 billion people entering the middle class1 and $30 trillion of annual consumption by 20252 – these are two numbers that summarize the drastic demographic and economic shift currently happening in emerging market countries and what McKinsey & Co. has called, “the biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism.2” The Dow Jones Emerging Markets…