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Lokesh Gupta
Vice President, MSCI Research
Lokesh Gupta is a member of MSCI’s research team focused on risk-management and portfolio-construction solutions. He specializes in factor analytics, factor-level risk decomposition, portfolio-strategy backtesting and time-series risk attribution. Previously, Lokesh conducted credit research on leveraged loans and macroeconomic analysis, focused on central-bank rate cycles at leading global banks. He earned his MBA in finance from Mumbai University and is a CFA® charterholder.
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Articles by Lokesh Gupta
Tariffs Raise the Specter of Stagflation: Three Macro Scenarios
6 mins read Blog | Apr 22, 2025 | Monika Szikszai, Lokesh Gupta, Thomas Verbraken, Rick BookstaberEconomists have cut growth forecasts and raised inflation expectations since the U.S. tariff announcement on April 2. For multi-asset-class investors, the key question is how shifting macroeconomic expectations could affect asset prices.