The 10 themes that could make or break an EM renaissance

Theme one: Opportunities beyond re-opening China is at a critical juncture and faces three principal challenges: geopolitical rivalry with the US, the ongoing fallout from Covid-19, and issues in its property sector. These huge challenges will test the resolve of the Beijing leadership. Figure 1: China fixed asset investment (%, year on year) Source: Bloomberg, […]
Direction of rates hangs over equities rebound

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Global Emerging Markets: Outlook 2023

Fast reading While emerging markets underperformed developed markets in 2022, if you strip out China, emerging markets actually performed in line with the developed world. We expect emerging markets to bounce back in 2023. In addition to trough valuation and light investor positioning, the growth differential between emerging and developed markets is set to expand […]
Fiorino: Many banks, multiple outcomes

Anything can happen. Or, according to one interpretation of quantum mechanics, everything that can happen, does happen. The so-called ‘many worlds’ postulate, first floated in the 1950s by then US physics PhD student, Hugh Everett III, resolves a fundamental enigma of the ‘wave function’ – the mathematical expression of how a quantum system, such as […]
Asia ex-Japan Equity: Letter to Investors

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Extinguishing the flame: Has inflation peaked?

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European stocks rally as recession fears recede

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Fixed income rebounds on expectations inflation has peaked

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ABS issuance: Why so low?

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Brasília riots add to investor caution over Brazil

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