Mr. Mohd Sedek Jantan

Mohd Sedek Jantan is a macro-financial economist and investment strategist with over fifteen years of experience spanning investment banking, wealth management and advisory. He currently serves as Director, Investment Strategy & Country Economist at IPP Wealth Managers, where he leads macroeconomic research, market intelligence and multi-asset investment strategy. Sedek’s work sits at the intersection of macroeconomics, financial markets and real-world capital allocation. He has developed forward-looking economic and market frameworks covering growth, inflation, interest-rate cycles, capital flows and geopolitical risk, translating these insights into actionable investment strategy across equities, fixed income, currencies and multi-asset mandates. His research-anchored and empirically disciplined approach has delivered consistently above-target investment outcomes and strong external benchmarking performance.

A Bloomberg-ranked economic forecaster with one of the most accurate regional track records (mean absolute error: 0.28), Sedek is a recognised key opinion leader on monetary policy, macroeconomic regimes and financial-market dynamics. He is a frequent commentator across leading Malaysian and regional media platforms and appears weekly on Astro Awani, where he provides policy- and market-focused economic analysis to a national audience. Beyond markets, Sedek is actively engaged in regional policy and academic discourse. He is an Expert Fellow of the Asian Financial Cooperation Association (AFCA), and an executive committee member of The Economic Club of Kuala Lumpur. His doctoral research on ageing economics has been cited and discussed by MIT AgeLab, a multidisciplinary research programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that works with business, government and non- governmental organisations to improve the quality of life of older people and those who care for them. He is ranked among the top 1.5% of authors globally on the Social Science Research Network (ranked 37,527 out of 2,176,949 authors).