Moment of truth
Fast reading: Corporate fundamentals have had a good run – but it may be time to be more cautious. Dispersion could be a key theme for 2024. Credit analysis will come to the fore as an expected economic slowdown winnows out winners from losers. The maturity wall: Not what you might expect. Refinancing should be […]
Not your average credit cycle
Three things we learned: Issuers are preparing for a new normal. Nothing’s written in stone but higher for longer has already profoundly affected credit market fundamentals. Dispersion could be a central theme of 2024. Short-term money markets have not witnessed significant outflows… yet. Expectations are for asset growth to continue into 2024 but will be driven by institutional […]
Expert insights on the short end of the curve
Short Term Investments Committee
The tiger that lost its roar: the mystery of South Korea’s underperforming equities
Chartology
High-wire act: Is it possible to quell inflation and to avoid a recession?
market snapshot
Has the ESG bubble burst?
Fast reading: The Global Equity team have been researching ESG since 2007, just a few years after the United Nations Global Compact first popularised the term, and integrating ESG into their investments for over a decade. Over the past 15 years, the team has both observed and demonstrated the added value that ESG can offer. […]
360°, Q4 2023:
Debt, deficit, dispelling doubts
In search of silver linings
Market snapshot
Beijing faces limited options to tackle economic woes
A fixed income perspective
Investors must learn to navigate a less predictable world
There was a time when investors understood that geopolitics and, particularly, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West, had a real impact on financial volatility and economies as it played out in a mixture of proxy wars and unusual diplomacy. As a young boy in East Jerusalem in the late sixties, I […]
