Investors spurning diversified exposure
Faced with rising geopolitical risk and globalization in retreat, investors showed little appetite for diversified exposure going into the final...
Economist Insights
Uncertainty the only constant in early 4Q23
With a growing number of third quarter earnings reports to analyze, US 10-year Treasury yields touching a 17-year high, oil prices rising in tandem...
Emerging Markets funds under pressure
Investors pulled a combined $6 billion out of EPFR-tracked Emerging Markets Bond and Equity Funds during the second week of October, with the latter...
Known unknowns abound in early 4Q23
US Money Market Funds started October with their biggest weekly inflow in six months as investors struggled to make sense of a market where interest...
Flows to US Bond Funds hit the buffers
The fourth week of September saw oil prices inch closer to the $100 a barrel mark, yields on US 10-year Treasuries hit a 15-year high and the clock...
Interest rates and investor sentiment on hold
Investors hoping for the p-word got one during the third week of September. But it was ‘plateau’, rather than ‘pivot’, as the Bank of England and US...
Another turn of the screw in Europe
The question of when major central banks will declare victory in their battles against inflation or, in the case of China, misallocation of credit...
Keeping the powder dry in early September
The first week of September saw EPFR-tracked Money Market Funds absorb over $65 billion as investors waited to see which way interest rate winds are...
Real pain for real estate on both sides of the Pacific
Although the third week of August ended with a stellar earnings report from Nvidia, maker of the graphic chips driving current artificial...
Cashing in and going on holiday
With the next US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank policy meetings still a month away and the 2Q23 earnings season beginning to wind down,...
Flows get several red stars in early August
Over $5 billion flowed into dedicated China Equity Funds during the first week of August as equity investors continue to pivot from Europe to Asia....
An AA+ rating for US debt, B- for fund flows
Coming into August, the advance of global asset markets was checked by a ratings downgrade for the world’s largest economy, more charges against...
Will 22 years be high enough for Fed, ECB?
Interest rates in both the Eurozone and US hit a 22-year high during the fourth week of July as the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank...
Growth sectors and India shine in mid-July
With inflation falling on both sides of the Atlantic despite resilient job markets, investors dared during the third week of July to dream of ‘soft...
Hope gets a 3% boost ahead of Fed’s July meeting
EPFR-tracked US Equity and Bond Funds absorbed a combined $22.2 billion during the second week of July. Of that total, $11 billion flowed in on the...