Eurozone outlook darkens amid energy crunch
Fast reading The ECB kept its deposit rate at 2% in April, warning that risks to inflation and growth had both intensified. If the Iran conflict persists and energy prices remain high, Europe will be among the hardest-hit regional economies. The uncertain market backdrop has supported demand for euro-denominated money market funds, which offer the […]
Duration offers an opportunity as odds grow for Iran off-ramp
Sovereign developed-country bond yields have surged higher in recent weeks, propelled by oil hovering persistently around US$100 a barrel and the longer-than-once-expected conflict in the Persian Gulf. Recent inflation data in the US and abroad clearly reflects the surge in energy costs and has fueled concern of potentially broader inflation pressures, forcing central banks to […]
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 […]
