Fiorino: Leverage will tear us apart, again
On November 8, the blood moon eclipse pushed more earthbound topics – such as war, inflation and near collapse of the UK financial system – momentarily to the sidelines as people around the world paused to marvel at the blushed red hues of our nearest celestial neighbour. Some may have gazed up and wondered how […]
ESG Materiality, Q4 2022
Key voting season trends in emerging markets
Emerging market debt: Darkest before dawn
Within the fixed income spectrum, EMD offers particularly compelling value on account of already having priced in much of the risk that other asset classes must negotiate in the year to come. Following the bruising sell-off in the first six months of the year, 20% of the EMD universe trades at over 1000bps in spread […]
Sustainable Global Equity Report, Q4 2022
The inflation game-changer
The art of going against the grain
Asia ex-Japan’s ten-year anniversary
Central banks ramp up rates in shadow of recession
market snapshot
Spectrum Q3 2022
Have alternatives gone mainstream?
View from Private Markets: Reappraising the value of real estate debt
Fast reading In the years following the global financial crisis, low rates reduced absolute returns for real estate lenders, but that is set to change now that rates are rising. Defensive real estate debt strategies should be largely protected from short-term property value declines, and may actually benefit from the rising rates environment. An allocation […]
360°, Q3 2022
Rates, recovery, recession
Fiorino: Can Europe’s banks withstand high-pressure energy disruption?
As Europe grapples with a gas crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, investors are facing up to a fundamental truth: energy is everything. Russia’s efforts to restrict, or cut off, the flow of natural gas to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, has […]
