Strategic Value Dividend: Why now, why always
Why do dividend-paying strategies make sense? Video transcript For the dividend investor, the ‘why now’ question really is a ‘why always’ answer. The math of dividend investing is one that works out over years, if not decades, of being a business owner through the stock market. It implies a certain degree of patience and watching […]
MNA: the building blocks of the euro bank merger cycle spring back to life
Stripped down to the basics, life on Earth offers local respite from the universal, inexorable drift towards entropy by using information to create order from chaos for the price of energy. The anti-entropy trick in all living cells relies on three key molecules that orchestrate, implement, and fuel an intricate, ingenious cycle: deoxyribonucleic acid, better-known […]
A guide to fixed income and the US election
Fast reading The race for the House of Representatives and the Senate is also too close to call. The uncertainty has prompted slightly more defensive positioning, at least in the short term. There is a decent cushion to total returns this year. The rate outlook and supportive fundamentals means this is unlikely to change, but […]
Decades in the making: MDT Advisers
Who is Federated Hermes MDT Advisers? Video transcript MDT Advisers is the active quantitative equity arm of Federated Hermes. MDT is a US equity-focused investment manager; today we manage nearly US$12bn across several US equity strategies, including a market neutral strategy. While the name ‘MDT’ may not be familiar to you, we have been around […]
A false dawn for China?
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Stock market looking to run the table
One mystery that the Bears forever struggle with is how stock markets are fuelled by the Wall of Worry. Try as we all might to find problems that the market doesn’t already know about it, and hasn’t already reflected in valuations, time after time the markets rally into those very concerns. Everyone is analysing the […]
Can Beijing do enough to maintain the rally?
Fast reading At the most recent Politburo meeting, President Xi Jinping outlined a far-reaching commitment to enact measures that protect the economy, property and equity markets from further deterioration – it was a clear ‘whatever it takes’ statement. Officials have launched a series of fiscal and monetary stimulus measures, but investor enthusiasm has been tempered […]
Investors vote with their feet
Video transcript Presidential election years tend to be very volatile and choppy in the latter stages going into the election. There were two indicators that we’re watching closely. The first is the economy itself. If the economy historically is growing strongly into the election, the incumbent party retains the White House 100% of the time. […]
UK inflation drop opens door to further cuts
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All eyes on earnings
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