Wait and see (redux)
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360°, Q2 2023
Divergence, duration, dislocation
ESG Materiality, H1 2023
Spotlight on India
Overlooked and underappreciated: The case for Korea
At the end of May 2023, the Federated Hermes Asia ex-Japan Strategy’s key country active overweight remains Korea, at +13.96% relative to benchmark, whereas the strategy’s main underweight is India, sitting at 16.83% below the benchmark, as shown by Figure 1 below.1 We prefer Korean stocks because they currently present very cheap valuations amid improving […]
A forced hand
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Beyond re-opening: the long-term trends to watch in China
Optimism that China’s scrapping of its strict zero-Covid controls would boost the global economy has been tempered by weaker-than-expected data in May on retail sales, industrial output, and investments. But this short-term blip needs to be viewed in the context of the vast technological and demographic shifts underway in the world’s second largest economy that […]
Crouching tiger: the contrarian case for China
Following the end of zero-Covid, China is in the midst of a U-shaped rather than V-shaped recovery, which has been quite uneven across various sectors. Electric vehicle (EV) sales as percentage of new auto sales in China increased to 35% in 2022 and China is now a net exporter of cars. The Chinese EV sector […]
Meet the Manager: Nachu Chockalingam
What’s your role at Federated Hermes? I work as a portfolio manager in our Credit team, with a particular focus on our sustainability-themed strategies. How did you get started in your career? Somewhat oddly, I think I knew I wanted to work in finance from a pretty young age but didn’t really know what area […]
On the road again
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Investors size up far-reaching implications of AI boom
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