All Emerging Market articles – Page 42
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White papersMarch Macro Dashboard
The global economy is in the throes of a recession as it battles COVID-19. GDP growth across the Eurozone and U.K. is set to contract in the second quarter. While China is beginning to lift restrictions, Japan is only beginning to crack down on social distancing as cases rise.
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White papersMarket stability improves, but portfolio questions remain
At this point, it appears the worst of the panic selling across global financial markets may be behind us. Thanks in large part to widespread stimulus measures, market liquidity has been returning, but investors remain unsure of how to structure and rebalance their portfolios.
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White papersSwiss Life - Insights: March 2020
Political uncertainty, slowing economies and “lower for longer” – the topics discussed in 2019 continued well into 2020. Apart from Brexit, the US presidential election jumped into focus, while the trade dispute between US and China is still ongoing. For the Eurozone, we expect the economy to grow by 0.9%, slightly lower than the Consensus Forecast of 1.0%. This is marginally better than was expected.
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White papersCovid-19 impact: European asset-backed securities
Trade opportunities emerge from price dislocations
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White papersMarket weekly – Some calm after the storm
As a semblance of calm returns to financial markets, Guillermo Felices, head of research and strategy for Multi-Asset and Quantitative Solutions (MAQS), and Dominick DeAlto, chief investment officer fixed income, discuss potential opportunities and the risks ahead for investors.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - April 2020
Markets (financial cycle) are leading the economic cycle and will bottom out before the end of the coronavirus pandemic. However, they would stabilise once reassured on three points: the cyclical pattern of the pandemic, the tactics of fiscal and monetary authorities and the short end of the credit curve.
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White papersSafety First
After a big sell-off, many fear missing the rebound—but we expect more volatility and think the time for opportunism will come later.
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White papersAre We Fighting The Last War?
Government economic response to the global crisis will have to be larger and more creative than ever.
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White papersCoronavirus market volatility: performance update
Markets are very weak and volatile, as you would expect with such uncertainty around the Covid- 19 outbreak. Some days the moves are indiscriminate and everything plunges to a broadly similar degree, on other days our higher quality names are outperforming. As markets have slumped, and governments and central banks have tried to make sense of what is going on, our portfolios have so far coped very well. Companies that are operationally impacted – restaurants, airlines etc – are seeing severe weakness.
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White papersGlobal equities: market volatility update
Concerns around coronavirus have been felt in global equity markets for more than a month now. However, things escalated last week, with the steep sell-off in oil further compounding fear around the recessionary impact of the virus.
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White papersMarket weekly – this policy response can turn the tide
After a week of unprecedented central bank interventions in financial markets, Richard Barwell, global head of macroeconomic research, and Denis Panel, chief investment officer for multi-asset and quantitative solutions (MAQS), discuss the state of markets at the opening in Europe on Monday 23 March 2020.
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White papersUsing Data Science to Bring Order to the Disruption
Michael Recce, Chief Data Scientist, discusses the data sets his team is analyzing to help us look at trends that may give some insight on the path for a return to normalcy in both public health and the economy.
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White papersUnemployment Claiming Year’s Only Gold Medal
Continuing claims are set to increase substantially as more workers become unemployed during the pandemic, the Trump administration struck a deal on a $2 trillion package, and the Olympics will be pushed out a year.
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White papersAsset allocation update: credit upgraded amid fluid and uncertain backdrop
The ultimate public health costs and economic impact of Covid-19 are at this time unknown. Public health responses have weighed the human cost of intensive care units being overwhelmed and the number of preventable deaths exploding against the jump higher in unemployment, collapse in investment and demand destruction attached to social distancing. Governments have, understandably, chosen life over wealth.
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White papersStress Testing Companies for an Impending Recession
The new coronavirus crisis is different than any other seen in our lifetimes. But equity investors who develop a clear set of characteristics that will define resilient companies in the evolving environment can position portfolios to get through the pandemic and benefit from an eventual recovery.
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White papersCoronavirus & Market Volatility
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, we are committed to providing you with the latest perspectives from our economists and investment teams around the world.
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White papersHow can companies mitigate the worst impacts of the coronavirus?
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing governments around the globe to enact emergency legislation to contain the spread of COVID-19, with cities in lockdown, shops, theatres and restaurants closed, and office workers logging on at home.
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White papersFour Things to Remember in a Market Downturn
Volatility, diversification and the merits of long-term investing
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White papersUK equities: yield and dividend outlook
Against a backdrop of the pandemic-induced demand shock across multiple sectors and swathes of the workforce consequently facing lay-offs and pay cuts, we are supportive of management teams who act decisively in the interests of all their stakeholders, and also give their businesses the best chance to participate in the recovery when normal service resumes.
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White papersIn Search Of The Bottom In The Covid-19 Crisis
In this unprecedented time of high uncertainty from a sanitary and economic perspective, the different drivers at play are moving in different directions. These forces make the exercise of GDP forecasting quite tricky and not particularly helpful for the time being.
