Cashing in on interesting times
The end of the latest debt ceiling standoff and expectations that the US Federal Reserve will keep interest rates on hold when it meets next week...
Economist Insights
Opening the door to another leg up?
The final week of May ended with US lawmakers voting to lift the country’s debt ceiling, markets assigning a one-in-three chance that the Federal...
Debt ceiling no obstacle for US Bond Funds
Amidst increasingly stark warnings of economic chaos if the current standoff over the US federal debt ceiling is not resolved, EPFR-tracked US Bond...
The best defense is a good Chinese economy
Worries about the impact a two-pronged credit squeeze, driven by quantitative tightening and the pressure on regional bank loan books, will have on...
Banking on more pain ahead
A recession in the second half of the year, triggered by the impact of current interest rates on the real estate sector and the banks that lend to...
Monetary squeeze tightens another two notches
Investors were expecting quarter-point interest rate hikes from the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB) in early May. They got them,...
Investors take a two C approach in late April
China and cash were by far and away the most popular asset classes during the fourth week of April as investors and markets braced for another round...
Chinese economy lays down a marker
With mud season keeping the conflict in Ukraine deadlocked and the next round of major central bank meetings still a fortnight away, investors...
Data-driven towards another rate hike?
The second week of April offered investors two data points, the latest US jobs report and the inflation numbers for Match, that they hoped would...
A liquid start to the second quarter
US Money Market Funds kicked off April by recording their fourth straight inflow in excess of $50 billion as investors sought alternatives to...
March’s pain may be April’s gain
Flows to and from EPFR-tracked fund groups during the final week of March continued to paint a picture of risk aversion and fear among investors....
Riding the waves in liquidity funds
In the face of this uncertainty, and the unwillingness of major Western central banks to suspend the battle against inflation, investors continued...
Banking on the cavalry’s prompt arrival
The second week of March was dominated by the crumbling fortunes of large US regional banks and European major Credit Suisse. Although this...
Fed following data, investors running from it
The third month of 2023 started with investors pulling another $5 billion out of EPFR-tracked US Equity Funds, extending that group’s longest...
Investors respond to red shoots of recovery
February was a bumpy month for investors and markets. Interest rates climbed higher in the US, Europe and Australia, the benchmark Dow Jones...