How does MDT’s investment approach respond to geopolitical risk events?
What is meant by “responding to major risk events” can vary meaningfully. For some investors, that may mean thinking opportunistically, where they want to allocate to certain asset classes or investment strategies that they expect to benefit to an outcome related to that risk event, or maybe moving away from certain asset classes that they […]
Oil shock not the only problem facing UK gilts
Fast reading The global energy shock continues to underpin a sell-off in sovereign bonds. Political developments and fiscal pressures add an additional level of uncertainty to the UK economy that is not directly mirrored in other core sovereign bond markets. The potential re-emergence of so-called ‘bond vigilantes’ could spell further trouble for the world’s fifth-largest […]
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Energy crunch fears rattle bond markets
How does our trade finance process work?
Can you walk us through how the trade finance process works from origination to repayment? I’d describe the trade finance process as a three-step journey: sourcing, underwriting, and monitoring. This is core, bank-originated business, primarily involving senior secured loans that banks originate to hold on their own balance sheets. The purpose is to facilitate trade […]
Scale matters: navigating EM oil credit in volatile markets
EMD report Q2 2026
Sustainable Global Equity: Where does a longer-term strategy see opportunity?
So far in 2026, markets have been shaped by an unusually broad range of cross‑currents – from artificial intelligence (AI) innovation driving disruption, and new artificial intelligence (AI) winners and losers, to heightened geopolitical uncertainty, conflict in the Middle East, and rapidly evolving interest‑rate and inflation expectations. It’s rare to see so many forces at […]
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Oil shock weighs on India outlook
MDT: How we seek to enhance our alpha model
At MDT Advisers, we are systematic, quantitative investors; underlying all of our work is our alpha model. What underlies the alpha model itself? Intuition and research. Our model didn’t arrive fully formed like Athena, of course, nor will it remain fixed. Instead, we use a rigorous research process to review the model’s output. The goal […]
Consider currency correlation
Video transcript 00:10How has the US dollar reacted to the Iran conflict? Prior to February 27th, there was really very little going on (with) the US dollar. Actually, on an index measurement, the dollar was flat. It actually rendered a negative .08% return, which is as flat as you can get. Bond markets actually were […]
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Big tech dominates as US equities hit record highs
