Investors feel the squeeze in early April
There were some unwelcome additions to the “higher for longer” list during the first week of April as geopolitical risks and energy prices joined US...
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America’s economic strength weighs on pivot projections
Although Switzerland’s central bank kicked off its latest easing cycle in late March, the second quarter started with investors digesting an...
Rate optimism shapes run-up to Easter
Investors spent the week leading into the Easter holidays digesting the latest round of central bank policy meetings. Their conclusions seem to have...
BOJ closes the book on negative rates
Central banks were again front and center during the third week of March. Between March 18-21, the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank...
Rising tide doesn’t lift SRI/ESG Funds
Record-setting flows into US Equity Funds ahead of the first “quadruple witching” of 2024 for futures and options contracts and February’s inflation...
Investors take stock in early March
Chase old market catalysts or wait for new ones? With the latest corporate earnings season winding down, China’s leadership laying out (some)...
What price peace and interest rate cuts?
The final week of February was marked by the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, key US, European and Japanese equity indexes...
For equity investors, plenty of sunlit uplands
Between Feb. 15 and 22, Japan, Europe and the US saw benchmark equity indexes hit fresh record highs while China’s CSI 300 climbed to a level last...
Focus shifts to US as China goes on holiday
With millions of Chinese workers downing tools for the Lunar New Year holiday and the country’s stock market going into that break on the back of...
Flows to China Equity Funds balloon in early February
On the eve of the Year of the Dragon, China Equity Funds smashed the weekly inflow record set in early 3Q15 as domestic institutional investors...
Fed ‘punch bowl’ remains under wraps
Investors went into the final week of January expecting more support from Chinese policymakers and hoping the US Federal Reserve would put a date –...
China Equity Funds in the money as policymakers voice support
Going into the final week of January, flows into China Equity Funds hit levels last seen during early 3Q15 as Chinese leaders discussed measures to...
Weighing the price of clogged trade arteries
With drought and Houthi missiles constricting two of the world’s major transit points, the Panama and Suez Canals, the pre-Christmas narrative of...
Cryptocurrency Funds take center stage
Investors had plenty to look forward to during the first full week of 2024: updated US inflation data, a raft of earnings reports from major...
Cash and China ring in the New Year
The week leading into the New Year provided an exclamation point for two of the most successful fund groups, in flow terms, during 2023. China...