All Emerging Market articles – Page 46
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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.
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White papersIs Vietnam Ready to Fill China’s Supply Chain Gaps?
When we travelled to Vietnam in late December, the first novel coronavirus cases hadn’t even been reported in China. Now, with the virus battering Chinese manufacturing, our impressions from that visit seem especially timely as investors seek to assess the shift of global supply chains to Vietnamese factories.
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White papersFive Ways Policymakers Can Beat the Coronavirus
A big near-term economic hit from measures to contain COVID-19 is now unavoidable. But policymakers can still ward off a deeper spiral and build the foundations for recovery—if they take the right steps now.
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White papersUnique Disruptions, Exceptional Measures
As we argued in our previous piece detailing the Fed’s 100bps cut and increased asset purchases, although the Fed had unloaded countless rounds of ammunition, additional firepower remained.
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White papersSharpe Thinking: seeking quality assets amid the market sell-off
What’s moving the investment landscape? In these turbulent markets, we bring you views from our portfolio managers, analysts and economists, delivered by our Investment Office – an independent body ensuring that our investment teams perform in the best interest of clients.
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White papersShock and Awe
Does this week’s multitrillion-dollar shot in the arm vaccinate the economy against the worst impact of COVID-19?
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White papersSpotlight on fixed income - The value view – finding opportunities in adversity
Asset markets have been subject to extreme volatility in recent days. M&G’s institutional public debt team has been maintaining a close watch on credit markets with a view to identifying attractive opportunities.
