All Inflation articles
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Global Investment Views - February 2023
Markets are shifting focus away from inflation towards growth, with a slightly less disruptive economic picture for Europe and a more optimistic view on China.
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ESG: Carbon markets offer a compelling way to restore wildlife and nature
While most markets and investment managers around the world are focused on the challenges of inflation, rising interest rates and recessionary risks, the most urgent challenges we face are more existential in nature: namely, catastrophic climatic change and the accelerating collapse of our planet’s life-sustaining ecological systems.
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Retail: Looking behind the headlines, opportunities for the cautious and the brave
The headlines for retail real-estate investors were difficult before the Covid-19 pandemic, worse through it and arguably struggling coming out of the other side. The retail real-estate market remains challenging at a headline level, but the detail is more interesting and opportunities prevail.
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European Real Estate: Darkest, Then a New Dawn?
The year ahead likely marks the trough in the property cycle, which will have implications for investment outperformance for years to come. The Barings Real Estate team discusses.
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Europe’s living sector is coming of age, and will come out of this cycle strongly
The Living sector has provided stable yields and substantial capital growth for much of the past decade, fuelled by low interest rates, extreme demand/supply imbalances and increased private and institutional investment. As a result, European net initial yields have fallen sharply. But rising inflation and interest rates have brought this cycle to an abrupt end.
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Blog
Factor Recap 2022: Providing ballast in whipsawing markets
Most factors fared better than their respective benchmarks in the 2022 market rout, in a testament to their effectiveness as investing tools after more mixed performances in prior years.
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Macro Matters - Better than feared. Worse than hoped.
In this monthly series, we take a quick, comprehensive look at current macroeconomic themes that matter to clients.
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Future Quality Insights: The path to clean, secure and affordable energy
Investment Insights from the Global Equity Team: Today’s choices and tomorrow’s returns
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Bonds are back: credit markets focus during 2023
This year, we expect the global economic environment to feature sluggish growth and an extended period of sustained high inflation. For the credit market, it will be a tale of two halves:
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Podcast
Emerging Markets Debt: An Early Spring?
Ricardo Adrogue, Head of Global Sovereign Debt and Currencies discusses the Barings’ team’s increasingly positive view on the outlook for emerging markets debt.
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Convertible bonds: the weather forecast for 2023
Convertible bonds are an all-weather instrument. The optionality embedded in this asset class helped returns and provided a cushion during the challenges of the past two years.
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2023 has begun with an inflation-relief rally
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we examine the current equity rally and its relationship to the decline in inflation.
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Blog
Are long-term US Treasury yields reaching the cycle peak?
Seven-to-ten-year US Treasury yields reached above 4% by the fourth quarter of last year, hitting multi-decade highs following a series of interest rate hikes since March 2022.
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Fixed Income Perspectives January 2023
Global growth is expected to weaken as central banks remain restrictive, though many economies have shown more resilience than previously expected Inflation should continue to lose steam in 2023, although it may remain uncomfortably high relative to central bank targets Higher yields and relative value opportunities offer better return ...
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Fixed income investors are still too optimistic on inflation
Does the latest US data confirm the battle against inflation has already been won? Franklin Templeton Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai says markets are overly optimistic.
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Outlook 2023: Blowing hot and cold
Our Annual Outlook provides our key views and investment implications for the coming year
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There IS an Alternative: Fixed Income Road Map - 2023
Bonds yields in many sectors rose in 2022. Finally, for investors who’d needed to seek income outside of fixed income markets, There Is an Alternative. Allspring fixed income leaders identify potential opportunities.
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Asian credit outlook: a bright spot in 2023
After 2022 marked one of the worst years on record for fixed income, Asia is expected to be the world’s bright spot in 2023. We believe Asian credit reached a bottom in early November 2022 and is now on the ascendent due to China pivoting away from its zero-Covid policy and back towards a pro-growth stance, as well as the emergence of clear US disinflationary trends.
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Fixed income rebounds on expectations inflation has peaked
As central banks moderate the pace of hikes and downturn concerns take the shine off riskier assets, bonds have seen renewed interest from investors.