Tomorrow – A podcast by Allianz Research

The projected lifetime income gap for women born in 2025 is 16% — the same as it was for women born in 2000. After decades of progress, we’ve hit a plateau. And that's a wake-up call. Even though we’ve made strides in narrowing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s participation in the workforce, there structural barriers that just won’t budge. For International Women's Day 2026, we look at how to close the gender income gap, from paychecks to pensions, with AI Assistants Aria and Arlo. 

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US equities have consistently outperformed global peers – that’s why they’re at the core of investment portfolios worldwide. But past performance is becoming less bankable, especially when policy risk, concentration and valuation premia are taken into account. In this episode, we look at how to invest in a fragmenting world, with AI Assistants Aria and Arda. 

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Global economic growth will be stretching the limits, according to our latest outlook for 2026 and 2027. Our economists have revised it up to now reach 2.9% in 2026 following a robust 3% in 2025, with the US and China accounting for over two-thirds of the upward revision. In the last episode of the year, our AI Assistant Aria explains what lies ahead, and what could go wrong.

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Aviation is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize: Between 1970 and 2023, total carbon dioxide emissions from aviation increased by around 164%, reaching nearly 1 gigatonne, equivalent to about 2.5% of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions. Mitigating these emissions will require a mix of measures, covering technology, fuels, operations and policy, as our AI Assistant Aria explains in this episode.

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Since early 2025, the Trump administration’s sweeping import duties have reshaped global trade flows. But they haven’t triggered a surge in US insolvencies - for now. In this episode, we look at the outlook for business insolvencies in the US and around the world, and the looming risks, from the AI boom and slow growth to financial conditions and fiscal discipline. 

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Generative AI is becoming a structural driver of the global construction sector as the AI boom fuels a frenzy for data centers. But there are some clouds looming: grid power shortages, land scarcity and regulatory constraints could hit the brakes on this frenetic pace of growth.

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We're back with a new episode of Tomorrow, with Allianz Research's AI Assistant Aria! Have you been wondering who is really paying the price of the trade war? Or how companies are managing persistently high financing costs? Well you’re in luck, because our latest global economic outlook aims to answer the ten biggest questions about what to expect as we head into 2026 and 2027. 

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We're back with a new season of the Tomorrow podcast, with Allianz Research's AI Assistant Aria! Today, we’re diving into the latest numbers on global household wealth from the Allianz Global Wealth Report 2025. The latest edition shows that 2024 was another record-breaking year. But not all regions benefited equally. 

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Time for a new episode of Tomorrow! Today we’re unpacking the results the Allianz Pulse. For the seventh edition, we surveyed 6,000 people across six of Europe’s largest economies: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Austria, taking the pulse on future prospects, policymaking, the rise of AI and more. Find out what they told us, with Allianz Research's AI Assistant Aria.

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The global economy has got that summertime, summertime sadness. Global GDP growth could hit the slowest pace since 2008 this year, outside of recession periods, according to our mid-year economic outlook for 2025-26. The US is expected to grow by +1.6%, helped by lower effective tariffs, while the Eurozone should see growth at +1.2%. The picture for emerging markets is more mixed, with some benefiting from FX appreciation and increased investment flows and others feeling the pinch of higher tariffs. To hit the right note, we’ve selected five summery songs to sum it up. Find out what they are in this episode with our AI Assistant, Aria.  

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