All Equities articles – Page 2
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White papersChina: Bringing the Long-Term Picture into Focus
While Chinese equities have faced increasing scrutiny, we believe the long-term case for the asset class remains compelling—supported by technological advancement, policy support, a resurgent consumer, and attractive current valuations.
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White papersHow to sustain dividend growth amid volatility – and sow the seeds of future performance
So far, 2025’s been a turbulent year – but dividend growth keeps us grounded. Dividend growth offers stability in volatile markets, balancing tech and defensives with disciplined investing and compounding returns driving long-term gains.
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White papers2025 Midyear Investment Outlook
As we reach the midpoint of 2025, the change we’ve witnessed since the start of the year is staggering and has translated into a high level of market volatility. We are in the middle of a fundamental restructuring of the geopolitical order that we’ve known since the end of World War II – politically, militarily and economically.
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White papers30 years on, what can the AIM market teach us?
As AIM celebrates its 30th year Gervais Williams, Head of Equities, discusses the retreat of the Globalisation or Goldilocks years. Similar to the story of Goldilocks, who discovered a bowl of porridge that was neither too hot nor too cold, it has been so with globalisation. Economic conditions have been just right and assets have delivered supernormal returns – for decades and decades. However, there’s a gnawing market anxiety. Renewed nationalism. Protectionism. Economic conditions are no longer just right. Where will markets go from here?
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White papersShinning a light on share remuneration
Share buybacks have become a standard corporate tool in achieving capital efficiency. In a share buyback, a company buys its own shares from existing shareholders, and thereby distributing capital to them in an alternative way to dividends. The practice was banned in the US until the early 1980’s when SEC formally set out the regulation, and eventually it spread globally. This growth has taken place despite some concerns that share buybacks were being used for management’s personal gain at the expense of long-term growth. Critics have also suggested that they have dampened innovation and encouraged excessive leverage levels.
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White papersAI vs. AI: the arms race in cyber space
AI is reshaping cyber warfare, making it faster, smarter, and harder to stop. Here’s why security must evolve just as fast.
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White papersIntroducing the new QESG 3.0: The next generation
The Global Equity ESG Pathway team’s assessment of ESG – the QESG Score – is embedded directly within our stock selection model and is a crucial part of how we determine the expected return of investments. In this paper, we provide a rundown of what’s changed in the next iteration of QESG.
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White papersA history of quant
Quantitative investing (quant) encompasses a broad range of strategies that use data analysis, mathematical modelling and automated transactions to deliver investment returns. In our latest paper, we discuss how quant strategies have evolved over recent decades; explore how they have been enhanced by advances in technology; and dispel some of the myths that have grown up around them.
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White papersDo quants dream of electric sheep?
With a hat tip to the sci-fi classic by Philip K Dick, we explain why a quant approach doesn’t have to be the computer-driven black box of popular imagination.
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White papersMaking Europe great again: A new era for value investing?
After years of underperformance, European equities are outperforming their US counterparts this year. We explore what’s making European markets great again – and discuss why we believe the emergence of a new positive story for Europe could offer opportunities for value investors.
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White papersEurope Edition: A crossroads
Henry Kissinger famously asked, “Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?”. While Europe has clearly made strides since Kissinger’s provocative jibe, many of the underlying challenges remain. One currency, but 27 underlying markets across a whole swathe of industries and sectors – with fragmented infrastructure, regulation and legal structures.
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White papersFinding Europe's elusive alpha
Over the last 25 years, a wide gap has emerged between the US and European economic and stock market performance. Steve Magill looks at whether recent signs of a challenge to this hegemony are a mere blip, or an important inflection point.
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WebinarTrade Turbulence - From Disruption to Opportunity
For over a decade, the US has dominated global equity returns. As ‘American exceptionalism’ comes to an end, where should investors look for medium-term returns? What are the ex-US opportunities in developed markets, and what are the prospects in emerging markets?
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White papersEurope: A strategic overweight?
After a long period of US equity outperformance relative to Europe, the short-term picture has changed. Evan Brown, Nicole Goldberger and Marco Bischoff look at whether this is a temporary anomaly or indicative of a longer-term trend.
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VideoTalking Markets - Pan European Property
In this edition of Talking Markets, Fund Manager Alex Ross explores the powerful forces driving this rebound. With strong rental growth, secure income streams, and compelling valuations, the Pan-European property market could be shaping up to be a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity.
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White papersMid-year Investment Outlook 2025
“Despite unpredictable policymaking, business resilience, and the reorganisation of global trade and financial systems, the expected rate cuts from central banks will create opportunities in global equities. We are focusing on themes such as European defence spending, US deregulation, corporate governance reform in Japan, and the ‘Make in India’ initiative.”
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White papersIndia and EM are winners of the rerouting shift
We maintain a positive outlook on emerging market (EM) equities for H2 2025, driven by recovering macro momentum, stabilising inflation, and central banks on an easing path. While growth remains positive and earnings decelerate to low single digits, the key narrative is the fading US exceptionalism, highlighted by a weakening dollar and declining trust in US policy, which enhances the attractiveness of EM through repatriation and diversification flows.
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White papersNavigating Secondary Growth: Opportunities Beyond the Horizon
While secondaries have been one of the fastest growing segments of the private equity market for more than a decade, we expect that further demand for liquidity, along with renewed macroeconomic uncertainty and recent market volatility, will continue to create attractive opportunities for seasoned secondaries investors in the current environment.
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White papersMacro brief: What could a China shock 2.0 mean for Europe?
High US tariffs make it more likely a bigger share of China’s industrial overcapacity finds its way to Europe. This would benefit European consumers by lowering inflation and boosting real incomes. But without any trade response from Brussels, it could squeeze domestic production and to counter that, targeted trade defence measures may be required.
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White papersNavigating the fog of tariffs in emerging market equities
We don’t pretend to have all the answers on China and the US, and we reserve the right to change our minds – especially as Donald Trump changes his. Amid such market volatility we are not making bold macro calls, instead our focus is on thoughtful, quality-led stock selection.
