Eric Lascelles
Chief Economist
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
Eric Lascelles
Chief Economist
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
As chief economist for RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM), Eric Lascelles maintains the firm's global economic forecast and advises its portfolio managers on key themes and risks. Lascelles is also a member of the RBC Investment Strategy Committee (RISC), which is responsible for the firm's global asset mix recommendations.
Lascelles makes regular presentations both within and outside of RBC GAM. He is also a frequent media commentator on global economic and financial trends, appearing regularly on CNBC, BNN and other networks. Lascelles’s written editorials have appeared in The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
Prior to joining RBC GAM, Lascelles spent close to a decade at another large financial institution. Before that, he was a researcher at Statistics Canada. Externally, he serves on the C.D. Howe Institute's Business Cycle Council, the group that dates recessions and other economic turning points in Canada. He’s also on the board of the Toronto Association of Business and Economics.
Lascelles holds a graduate degree in Economics from Queen's University as well as a Bachelor of Economics from Princeton University.
Eric Lascelles's content
Adapting investment strategy to the negative yield environment
Last updated: November 20, 2019The world’s cache of government bonds trading at negative yields has soared. How did this come about and how will it distort financial markets?
8 minute read
Our ingenuity will revive growth in global productivity – eventually
Why productivity’s prospects, and its effect on the global economy, remain the subject of fierce debate.
3 minute read
The creeping public debt risk
Developed nations were riding an escalator of rising public debt until the global financial crisis struck in 2008, at which point they switched to an elevator.
3 minute read