All Inflation articles – Page 10
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White papersRussia-Ukraine tensions: geopolitical risk adds volatility to risk assets
Geopolitical dimension of the crisis: tensions stand at their highest point in years, after Moscow deployed 100,000 troops to its border with the Ukraine’s Donbas region. The geopolitical risk between Russia and the West remains deadlocked since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and the consequent Western sanctions to Russia.
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Build a Better Bond Portfolio
Today’s fixed income challenges are known by all. Flattening curves, elevated inflation and bond market volatility are all there. But they’re not insurmountable and not the whole story. Smart investors are reimagining their bond portfolio and just how rewarding it can be.
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EM Debt in 2022: China, COVID & Central Banks
What lies ahead for EM debt markets in 2022? Risks include higher rates and inflation as well as uncertainties surrounding China and the path of the pandemic. But with defaults still low and spreads wide by historical standards, opportunities look likely to arise.
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Roadmap for Fixed Income 2022
Bond investors everywhere remain on the hunt for yield. The opportunities are out there. You just need to broaden your horizons and bring your portfolio into shape for the year ahead.
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The Fed: Walking a Tightrope in 2022
The US Federal Reserve is walking a tightrope—if it acts too quickly it risks hampering growth and market volatility, but if it acts too slowly it risks spiraling price increases.
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Global Investment Views - February 2022
January has seen strong gyrations in markets, with nominal and real yields rising sharply, driving a strong shift from growth to value in equities. The reassessment of the inflation premium in the wake of demanding valuations has driven a strong repricing of risk premia.
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Equity Market Correction Opens Door for Quality Recovery
It’s been a challenging start to the year for equity investors, with markets dragged down by a sell-off starting in expensive technology stocks, particularly in the US. While the correction is unsettling, we think it may open the door for a healthier recovery in which companies with high-quality, sustainable businesses can stand out.
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Weekly newsletter Macro Views: Correlation shock? Not all hedges are created equal
January has been very volatile so far, with most equity indices falling by double digits and off to the worst start of the year since 2016.
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A regional shelter from a potential global inflation storm?
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income’s Mohieddine Kronfol is cautiously optimistic the GCC region will continue to trend toward constancy.
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*Environmental thematic investing set for strong growth in 2022*
While 2020 was one of the best years for pure environmental thematic investing, with the segment up by more than 100%, it saw a significant – and healthy – consolidation in 2021. It underperformed the MSCI ACWI index despite company fundamentals improving notably and regulatory and policy support bolstering ...
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Macro Views: Macro Fundamentals Support a Risk-on position
The new year has started with significant volatility, as central bankers make clear a shift in monetary policy that has seen long rates move sharply higher and questioned asset valuations.
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Fixed Income Perspectives
Global economic growth looks likely to continue in 2022, albeit at a more modest pace. The COVID-19 pandemic does, however, add uncertainty to the outlook, as evidenced by the recent emergence of the Omicron variant.
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Solving for a Year of Inflections
The Solving for 2022 delegates voted on what they think will be this year’s best-performing investment category—and here’s why we think they are right.
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Investing in 2022: Four key market drivers
The pandemic and rising inflation were prevailing drivers of markets in 2021. But the economic squeeze which dominated 2020 finally started to loosen its grip, as the world started to get back to something resembling ‘normality’ in the second half of last year.
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1Q: 2022 Strategic Investment Outlook: Four Strategic Allocation Issues for Asset Owners in 2022
Four strategic issues—from evolving inflation drivers to a reassessment of real-return prospects and liquidity risks for equities—could have far-reaching implications for strategic asset allocations in the coming year. The action points offered in this note include both changes to portfolio structure and potential alterations in approach.
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Spectrum 2022 Outlook
We expect a slower pace of growth in 2022 due to monetary tightening and reduced fiscal policy support.
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Shifts & Narratives #13 - Money and psychology of inflation: an investor view
Inflation was the big surprise in 2021. At the beginning of the year, the average US inflation forecast by economists for the end of 2021 was around 2%, while the latest reading in December came in at 7.0% YoY, the highest level since 1982.
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Money and its velocity matter: the great comeback of the quantity equation of money in an era of regime shift
The velocity of money (V) depends on P = the general price level, T = the total amount of goods and services produced and M = the total amount of money in circulation, and can be expressed by the formula V = PT/M.
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The Yin and Yang of 2022
Brandywine Global: As the US and China prepare to move in opposite directions, investors should position for potential policy divergence.
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Inflation, central banks and rising rates – Q&A with Andrew Cormack
It feels as though US policy makers have spent the entire post-global financial crisis period trying to generate inflation. Now that it’s here, it seems like the wrong kind of inflation. How do you see inflation playing out in the US?
