Economies recover against backdrop of growing confidence
market snapshot
360°, Q1 2023
Inflation, disinflation, inflection
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, […]
Ahead of the Curve, Q1 2023
Fast reading: In our baseline scenario, global growth will continue to slow in 2023, reflecting a continuation of the themes that dominated 2022. Inflation has moderated but is still running at elevated levels, significantly eroding real disposable incomes. More importantly, the sharp tightening of monetary policy that major central banks (the Federal Reserve notably) implemented […]
Direction of rates hangs over equities rebound
Market snapshot
Sustainable Global Equity Report, Q1 2023
China’s ‘great reopening’
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
Outperforming us over the long term
Financial inclusion and banking
A billion-person opportunity?
