Are you planning on retiring in Raleigh, NC anytime in the next 30 years? If so, there is a complicated world out there beyond Raleigh, with its own set of goals, aspirations and driving forces that can impact your investments. Olde Raleigh Financial Group loves to keep eye on that horizon with conversations around geopolitical trends and how those trends might affect investment decisions. Please take a listen to this interview with Confluence Investments analyst Patrick Fearon-Hernandez who uses his CIA background to view the world. Topics include:

• Wolf Diplomacy? China’s more muscular role in global diplomatic organizations and policies making.
• What are China’s military capabilities with particular attention to their Navy. Did you know they have the largest Navy by number of boats in the world. The questions is are they the right boats to move from a regional power to a global power that rivals the U.S. and what’s the timeline of such expansion?
• Analysis of Chinese national interest and goals compared with US Interest and Goals
• Japan: A new president in Suga and an old, often fraught relationship with China. What next for one of the U.S.’s staunches ally as the try to help check China’s power surge?
• Taiwan’s semiconductor Industry is the global leader in microchip production and China wants it.
• Will global supply chains shorten?
• Impacts of The Aging populations on economic growth and inflation in both developed and developing worlds. Investors must pay attention to changing population demographics!

Read Full Interview Transcript at: https://olderaleighfinancial.com/stories-from-the-stacks-a-soundtrack-to-an-investment-advisors-life-episode-6-with-confluence-investments-analyst-patrick-fearon-hernandez/

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