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Value stocks poised to get back on track in 2022
Franklin Mutual Series believes the environment for value stocks should become more favorable again next year as robust economic growth and modest inflation provide support.
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Infrastructure in the post-pandemic world - Infrastructure outlook for 2022
The infrastructure sector continues to be resilient with robust performance across debt and equity. The sub-sectors worst hit by the pandemic are showing green shoots, recovering in line with the macro environment.
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Recovery, risks and relationships
While interest rates are likely to creep up in the short term, the long-term structural impacts that have kept rates so low for so long are still in place.
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Fixed income outlook: Is the market overly hawkish?
After the bond bear market of 2021, valuations look more attractive in an environment where interest rate rises may already be priced in.
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Global Growth Equities in 2022: One Step Forward, One Step Back
The tug of war between value and growth stocks will almost certainly persist, but there are long-term opportunities in growth stocks globally.
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Long-Term Capital Market Expectations 2022: A Balanced Outlook
Our capital market expectations (CME) are designed to provide annualized return expectations over a longer-term horizon, typically viewed as 10 years.
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Looking into 2022 with Federated Hermes
Global markets have seen significant volatility in 2021 driven by price inflation, expectations for interest rates, commodities shortages and covid-19 variants.
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Lessons from COP26: Why lasting impact of summit should be judged on COP27 commitments
Empty talk needs to be replaced with concrete agreements and targets, says Vicky Sins, climate and energy lead, World Benchmarking Alliance
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Is This the Start of a Labor Force Liftoff?
Volatility amid the Omicron variant continues to dominate, including new restrictions in the U.K. that led the pound to hit new YTD lows.
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Inflation: Don’t You (Forget About Me)
The US Federal Reserve finally acknowledged inflation is not a “transitory” problem and signaled a greater degree of concern; but investors seem to think that the Fed will blink when markets balk.
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Omicron, Pi, Rho…
Omicron will not be the last variant that surfaces, especially with about half the Greek alphabet still unused. Much is still unknown about the risks, but they add another level of complexity to the outlook.
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Economic Outlook Roundtable
The global economic recovery looks set to continue in 2022, but a number of risks remain—from tangled supply chains to lingering price pressures. Join our panel of experts as they explore these issues from both the “top-down” and “bottom-up.”
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Solving for 2022: Joseph Amato on Equities
As 2021 concludes, the leaders of our investment platforms got together to debate and identify the key themes that they think will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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Economic whiplash? - Outlook for 2022 from Brandywine Global.
The defining characteristics of the economic outlook for 2022 could be more about the composition of global growth than its trend. As long as the threat persists, a return to normalcy from pandemic trauma still seems off in the future rather than around the corner.
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Fed officials’ discomfort is growing with the inflation overshoot: why it will remain cautious
US consumer prices jumped by 6.2% in October, their highest level in 30 years! Deteriorating inflation data have pushed markets towards forecasting a faster pace of tapering and a more rapid removal of accommodation in 2022. We expect the Fed to act gradually as Covid remains a major risk and as the Fed would like to see a higher participation rate.
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Market Scenarios and Risks - December 2021
We change the narrative and the probabilities of the scenarios in line with our 2022 Outlook. The central scenario assumes that Covid becomes endemic with multiple waves albeit manageable, fiscal levers remain significant and tied to monetary policy and growth comes back to potential in 2023.a
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Our best investment ideas
Broadly speaking, valuations across public equities around the world appear full, but we see opportunities across sectors and markets. We expect valuations to be relatively flat next year.
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Focusing on the evidence: 360°, Q4 2021
What is our current view of fixed income markets? And where do we see the best relative value? In our latest edition of 360°, Andrew ‘Jacko’ Jackson and his team of specialist investors consider the areas that have the potential to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns.
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Growth, Inflation, and ESG: Economic Trends and Investment Themes for 2022 and Beyond
Our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team recently brought together experts from across Franklin Templeton’s various investment groups for their third annual Investment Symposium event.
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Macroeconomic Outlook 2022: Compression, decompression, absorption
2020 was a year of massive compression of economic activity. 2021 was a year of fast decompression, with demand catching up quickly as we were reopening, exerting significant pressure on supply, triggering a rise in consumer prices unseen in decades.