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White papersAI financing: Bubble, breakthrough or the next fixed income supercycle?
AI represents a major investment cycle with distinctive financial foundations. In this paper, fixed income portfolio manager Sandro Lazzarini and analyst Theo Pan compare current AI financing to previous cycles and ask whether it could represent the next supercycle for bonds.
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White papersUS midterm elections may be closer than expected
With the US midterm elections just around the corner, I am asked multiple times a day by colleagues, clients and friends how I think this pivotal contest is going to turn out. It’s my job after all to provide political analysis and public-policy research to Capital Group’s investment team — with an emphasis on analysis, not advocacy, as I always stress.
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White papersEquity Perspectives
Equity Perspectives outlines the current macro and market views from across Capital Group’s economists, portfolio managers and investment analysts. It offers insights on investors’ equity exposure against an ever-changing backdrop.
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White papersFixed Income Perspectives
Fixed Income Perspectives outlines the current macro and market views from across Capital Group’s extensive fixed income team and offers insights on investors’ bond exposure against an ever-changing backdrop.
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White papersAI boom or doom? Your questions answered
When French philosopher René Descartes wrote “I think, therefore I am,” he likely didn’t envision a future dominated by artificial intelligence. Yet as AI transforms society, company executives and inquisitive investors are wrestling with similarly fundamental issues about where the technology is headed and how events may unfold.
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VideoThe constructive case for active management
What if the investing approaches that defined the last decade are less suited to the next?
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WebinarWebinar - Megatrends: From AI to space and beyond
Portfolio managers Mark Casey and Michael Beckwith explore the durable trends shaping the global economy. How sustainable is the AI boom, where are other opportunities emerging, and what could it all mean for positioning investment portfolios?
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White papersWhy the US economy is stronger than you might think
If you had told me a year ago that the United States would be waging an intractable war in the Middle East, oil prices would rise to more than $100 a barrel, interest rates would be moving sharply higher, and inflation would be running well above 3%, my forecast for the US economy would have been gloomy to say the least.
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White papersFrom fragmentation to opportunity: EMD in a multipolar world
The world is undergoing a series of profound global shifts, a dynamic we have termed to as the Great Global Restructuring.
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White papersFed rate hike: Three views on what’s next
The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point this month marks a significant shift in monetary policy as the central bank seeks to dampen war-induced inflationary pressures. Although it is the first time the Fed has hiked rates since July 2023, in some respects it represents a return to normal after many years of artificially low borrowing costs.
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White papersWhy market structure rewards active management in local currency EMD
Local currency emerging market debt (EMD) has matured into one of the most diverse opportunity sets in global fixed income. Issuance has grown, liquidity has deepened, yield curves have developed, and the ownership base has broadened across domestic and international investors. For many emerging economies, a functioning local bond market and credible monetary policy are now signals of economic development rather than aspirations.
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White papersMacro brief: AI in Europe Part 2 – Comparing capex and strategy
While estimates of AI spending across regions are hard to find, every available measure shows the scale of investment in Europe is an order of magnitude smaller than in the US and China.
