Post-election realignment continues apace
Investors committed another $151 billion to all US Equity, Money Market and Bond Funds during the second week of November as they adjusted their...
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America first during early November
Net flows during the week ending Nov. 6 to all US Equity, Bond and Money Market Funds totaled $138 billion, with some $25 billion of that total...
Searching for buffers in late October
Uncertainty about the impending US presidential election, the mixed reaction to Chinese efforts to kickstart key elements of the world’s...
The calm before any election day storms
With the 2024 US Presidential election now less than two weeks away and the outcome still viewed as a toss-up, investors spent the third week of...
Flow pendulum swings to US stock funds
After a two-week influx of fresh money into China Equity Funds totaling $53 billion, the spotlight in mid-October shifted to US Equity Funds as a...
EM Equity Funds ride China rebound during record-setting week
The first week of October saw China’s benchmark stock index do a passable imitation of a roller coaster. It was a different story for flows into...
A rotation with Chinese characteristics
Investors anticipating that recent interest rate cuts in North America and Europe will drive a rotation from bonds to stocks, especially emerging...
China amplifies Fed’s interest rate pivot
In the wake of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut in over four years, US equity markets hit fresh record highs and collective flows into...
Investors given a ‘jumbo’ US rate cut to digest
The final day of the latest reporting period, which coincided with the US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March 2020, saw flows into...
Rotating to safety in early September
Ahead of a nine-day window encompassing policy meeting by the European Central Bank, US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan, investors steered another...
Fasten seatbelt sign goes on in early September
Global asset markets hit a speed bump coming into August. They hit another during the first week of September as the tires on the investment cases...
All goldilocks and no bears in late August
The Paris Summer Olympics ended with the US and China occupying first and second position in the medal standings. They occupied the same positions...
Positioning for the US rate cut bounce
With only a few key data points standing between now and the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, expectations of a first cut in US interest rates...
Investors back in the pre-correction saddle
Two weeks after global markets corrected sharply, fund flows have regained much of their previous shape.
Equity investors see the opportunities, fixed income investors the risks
August started with a major market correction triggered by shifting dynamics in the yen carry trade and some mediocre US labor market data. On...