All Global articles – Page 17
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White papers2026 Market Outlook
Market Fundamentals and Capital Trends: 2025 Global growth at 3.2%, Korea at 1.0%. US tariff agreements, export strength, fiscal policy to support GDP growth upward revision.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - January 2026
Central banks easing into a thus-far resilient economy
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White papersQ4 2025 Short Duration Commentary
MetLife Investment Management’s Q4 2025 Short Duration Quarterly Commentary recaps 2025 and shares insights into opportunities and risks for 2026.
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White papersQ4 2025 Emerging Markets Debt Review and Outlook
Emerging markets debt (EMD) delivered strong performance during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2025, supported by a favorable global macroeconomic backdrop, easing U.S. monetary conditions and renewed investor demand for higher-yielding fixed income assets. Declining global interest rates, U.S. dollar weakness and supportive commodity dynamics were specifically beneficial for EM assets, supporting robust total returns across both hard and local currency spaces.
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White papersLooking Ahead to 2026: Opportunities in Fixed Income
Lloyd Harris, Head of Fixed Income at Premier Miton, shares his outlook for the year ahead and how the team are positioning portfolios.
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White papersInfrastructure Outlook: Accelerating Growth, Embedded Resilience
As the definition of infrastructure expands, supportive financial conditions and powerful secular trends are setting the stage for sustained growth. Learn more in Brookfield’s 2026 Infrastructure Outlook, featuring insights from Infrastructure CEO Sam Pollock.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook: Investing Through the Next Cycle
The real estate recovery is underway, with opportunities across key sectors—housing, logistics, data centers and hospitality—and an active credit market supporting a rise in transactions. Learn more in Brookfield’s 2026 Real Estate Outlook, featuring insights from Real Estate CEO Lowell Baron.
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White papersRelative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q1 2026
The dispersal of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies across the economy is creating both optimism and pessimism. Job disruptions caused by the spread of this technology appear to be manifesting in rising youth unemployment, a development that has real social and economic impacts in both the short and long term — both on the workers directly impacted and on their families.
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PodcastMonetary policy resolutions for a new year - Global Investment views by Outerblue Convictions
It’s the time of year to look ahead, reflect back on what has happened, and make resolutions for the coming year. After explaining our market forecasts and investment views for 2026 in last month’s podcast, in this episode we’re focusing more closely on a key factor that drives market movements, monetary policy.
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White papersGlobal Risks Outlook 2026: Cloudy with a Chance of Boom
Heading into 2026, investors face a shifting landscape shaped by economic, policy, and geopolitical risks that cut across asset classes. Understanding these forces is essential to interpreting the environment ahead. In this Global Risks Outlook, we outline the macro forces that may influence 2026, including labor-market pressures, ongoing trade policy unpredictability, evolving AI-driven investment trends, and a complex geopolitical backdrop.
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White papersKeeping the lights on: How utilities are meeting AI’s energy needs
As we head into year-end, the question on many investors’ minds is: “What’s next?” While some themes have run their course, one opportunity continues to stand out - listed infrastructure. In this note, Jim Wright, Fund Manager of the Premier Miton Global Infrastructure Income Fund, explains why affordability concerns remain and how innovative solutions and cost-sharing models are emerging to address these challenges.
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White papersThe Journey of Global Liquidity
Tracking global liquidity is essential because it influences all assets, which has significant implications for portfolio construction. However, analysing global liquidity is complex: while measuring the initial supply is relatively straightforward, understanding how it spreads and multiplies is challenging.
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White papers2026 Investment Outlook
Our latest Outlook report offers actionable insights into global markets
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White papersKey Investment Themes 2026: Our roadmap for the new investment landscape
2025 has seen the global economy hold firm, despite headwinds from the US ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs and concerns over fiscal dominance and the ability of the Federal Reserve to maintain its independence. Most central banks normalised monetary policy while the AI investment boom helped to support growth.
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White papers2026 Fixed income outlook: Structural shifts create strategic opportunities
The global fixed income landscape is becoming more differentiated and policy-driven. Fiscal policy is reshaping yield curves, while the narrowing gap between developed and emerging markets demands a fresh approach to credit assessment. Despite tight valuations in traditional credit, the macro environment remains constructive with improving growth, moderating inflation and healthy corporate balance sheets. Discover where we’re finding the most attractive risk-adjusted opportunities across securitized credit, municipals, leveraged finance and beyond.
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White papersFive themes for EM debt in 2026: a year of greater divergence
Looking into 2026, we see five themes driving our outlook for emerging market debt.
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White papersStock market outlook: Three investment strategies for 2026
Has the AI boom reached bubble territory? Have markets overcome the risks of policy uncertainty? Can markets outside the US continue to show strength, or will the global rally fade as it has many times in the past?
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White papersCountdown to the new year: Views from the Global Equity team
The Global Equity team weigh the key opportunities and potential risks driving their thinking for 2026.
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White papersReasons to Revisit EM Corporate Debt: A Short Duration Approach
A short-duration allocation to emerging market (EM) corporate debt offers the potential for attractive carry, incremental yield and portfolio diversification—while reducing interest rate sensitivity and preserving flexibility to reposition as monetary conditions evolve.
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White papersGlobal Fixed Income: Themes to Watch in 2026
Tight spreads meet elevated all‑in yields as policy uncertainty, AI capex, and uneven growth set the stage. We see selective opportunities across High Yield, CLOs, IG Credit, and EM Debt—with 2026 shaping up as a year for rigorous credit picking.
