All Equities articles – Page 20
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VideoMarket Outlook for 2025: Gauging the Global Effects of New US Policies
For a deeper dive into these topics, read Fixed-Income Outlook 2025: Fertile Ground, and Equity Outlook: Preparing for Profound Policy-Driven Change.
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White papersFinancials: Poised for recovery
The positive economic outlook—highlighted by an increasingly likely soft landing—along with industry-specific green shoots, such as favorable credit conditions, improving loan growth, higher net margins and fee income, and a more accommodating regulatory environment, is poised to drive an inflection point in financial services earnings. These factors should help create a return to capital and a favorable earnings environment through 2026, helping extend positive investor sentiment within financial stocks.
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White papersReasons for a standalone India allocation in a global portfolio
Explore why India’s special characteristics have contributed to equity outperformance and how dedicated exposure could bring value to investors.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - January 2025
A semblance of a goldilocks ahead of Trump’s inauguration
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White papers2024 recap: Resilient despite risks
Markets defied challenges in 2024, delivering strong gains across equities and bonds, supported by investor optimism and resilient economic fundamentals. Entering 2025, a mix of policy clarity and elevated equity valuations suggests a cautious but optimistic outlook for U.S. growth. Key risks—including trade policy and the Federal Reserve’s evolving ...
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White papersA short guide to index selection: A multi-step process requiring both quantitative and qualitative inputs.
The indexing industry has changed and evolved significantly since the first indexed equity portfolio was launched in 1971. More than USD 24 trillion is now invested on a passive basis globally – tracking a wide range of benchmarks across different asset classes in a variety of investment vehicles.
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White papersFed and ECB cut rates, BoJ and BOE on hold
“The Fed’s hawkish tone signals that the Central Bank is incorporating a more uncertain outlook. This calls for keeping a tactical approach to bond investing.”
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White papersPositive on Equities, Cautious on the S&P 500
Why we think 2025 could bring a long-awaited reward for the discipline of diversification.
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White papersUS Small Cap. Setting the Stage for 2025
U.S. small-cap indices have pulled ahead of large-cap indices over the past three to six months, and through the first half of 2025, we anticipate further catch-up in both stock prices and, for higher-quality small caps, earnings growth. We believe government spending, tax cuts, trade realignments, deregulation and conducive industrial policies will boost US smaller businesses.
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VideoTariffs on the table
In this video, Martin Schulz, Group Head, International Equities, unpacks the potential ripple effects of 2025 tariffs on international equities, and which regions and sectors could be caught in the balance.
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White papersKey Investment Themes 2025
The global economy avoided recession for a second year. Inflation began to cool and the major central banks embarked on a new cycle of interest rate cuts. However, geopolitical risk rose against the backdrop of a particularly busy election calendar around the world.
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White papers2025 Perspectives: Optimism through the obstacles
2025 arrives on the heels of remarkable resilience in global markets. However, investors face a world still shaped by uncertainty—from deglobalization and slowing growth in developed economies to resilient U.S. equities, elevated policy risks under the incoming Trump administration’s tariff threats, and persistent inflationary pressures in the U.S. In 2025 Perspectives, our leading investment experts highlight the themes that will impact portfolios and drive market performance in the year ahead.
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White papersClosing Bell 2024 : ‘Immaculate disinflation’ and the ‘Magnificent Seven’
2024 was another good year for tech stocks and equities overall
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White papersOutlook 2025: Trumponometer
Our Annual Outlook provides our key views and investment implications for the coming year
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White papersAI-enabled robotics and automation
Advances in technologies such as AI are likely to create large new market opportunities for innovative firms in the automation market
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White papers2025 Outlook: We have seen this movie before
As we head into 2025, it is hard not to notice several parallels with the past; it feels like we have seen this movie before.
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White papersPrivate Markets, Edition December 2024
It gives us great pleasure to announce that going forward, we’ve teamed up with The Red Thread as a means of connecting thinking across our industry. We believe that by unearthing the key threads that run though market trends, our readers should be able to see opportunity and risk with greater clarity.
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White papersInvestment Perspectives 2025 Outlook: No time for complacency
Markets took the key events in 2024 mostly in their stride. Will this relaxed view persist over the next 12-months? CIO’s from across our investment teams discuss the likely events and drivers they believe will shape investor returns over the coming year.
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White papersUK equities: don’t believe the doom mongers
Remember Tony Blair? When Labour won a landslide election victory in 1997 after 18 years of Conservative rule, it inherited an economy on the rebound after a bout of inflation and high interest rates in the early 1990s. In the months that followed, sterling surged and UK stocks rallied.
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White papersInternational equities: Opportunities beyond U.S. dominance
On the back of strong economic growth and a steady wave of technology advancements, U.S. equities have outperformed global equities for nearly 15 years. However, with U.S. valuations reaching historic highs and investors facing evolving challenges like trade disputes and tariff wars, compelling opportunities in international equities and multinational companies could redefine the narrative.
