Slok’s wife is pastor of a Danish church in Brooklyn, New York.
Photographer: Reed Young for Bloomberg MarketsHow Torsten Slok Solved the ‘Sherlock Holmes Mystery’ of the Economy
When others thought a recession was inevitable, Apollo’s chief economist correctly predicted more growth. He did it by looking at the data.
Everywhere he goes, all day long, people ask Torsten Slok one impossible question: What does the future hold?
As chief economist of Apollo Global Management Inc., an asset manager that sits atop more than $700 billion, he’s supposed to have an answer. Even if he knows that any specific prediction has an excellent chance of being wrong.