Looking Beyond Traditional Benchmarks to Add Value in Emerging MarketsSubscription
As emerging markets have grown in size and importance, emerging market equities have become a core part of many portfolio allocations.
Asian Asset Owners Are Leapfrogging Into ESGSubscription
China’s Green Bond MarketsSubscription
The US debt ceiling saga resumesSubscription
Since March 2017, the US Treasury has employed “extraordinary measures” to fund the US government, such as halting contributions to certain government pension funds and borrowing money set aside to manage exchange rate fluctuations. But those measures are set to run out by early October.
How bad could a trade shock be for the industrial sector?Subscription
Globalization’s inexorable forty-year march was dealt a blow by Brexit and the subsequent presidential election in the United States.
Summer Air-Pocket
Intensifying stress over North Korea boosted most safe havens while dragging risk assets.
Adieu, Paris AgreementSubscription
Sterling: Pounded Down Far Enough?Subscription
Coping with chaosSubscription
Chaos describes a state of non-normalness and nonlinearity in complex systems – one that is characterised by surprises.
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IPE Investment Manager Expectations Indicator
Each month IPE surveys around 100 asset managers with one or more European segregated mandates for their predictions for equities, bonds and currency markets in the next 6 to 12 months
Manager expectations July/August 2017
It would be an understatement to say the shine has left the US equity market, given this month’s manager expectation submissions. The month’s responses indicate movements across all asset categories, with a positive nod toward Europe, while those who predict change (for instance in the US and the UK) are seeing an erosion of confidence towards equity valuations....read more
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