Risk takes a holiday as pandemic’s latest wave saps festive spirits
With major central banks responding to rising inflation, investor focus shifted during the third week of December to the Covid-19 pandemic’s latest...
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Inflationary noose tightens and Omicron cuts loose in mid-December
The jury is still out on the impact of rising Covid caseloads triggered by the Omicron variant, but the latest round of inflation numbers delivered...
Tiptoeing into the Christmas holidays
Flows to EPFR-tracked fund groups during the first week of December tilted towards the positive – at least for the US. Investors steered money into...
Investors parse the meaning of transitory going into December
Hopes that the impact of Covid’s Omicron variant will prove transitory, concern that it will not, and fears that inflation is here to stay...
Turkey for Thanksgiving, Omicron for Christmas?
With Covid regaining center stage, much of the US on holiday and many central banks rummaging around in their inflation containment toolkit, flows...
Shivers run through Europe and Japan as supply chains rattle
The Japanese economy’s 3% contraction during the third quarter and the latest spike in natural gas prices pushed supply chain issues to the top of a...
Earnings and inflation both roar in early November
From a fund flow perspective, the week ending Nov. 10 saw groups and themes that have fared well for most of 2021 continue to attract fresh money....
Investors feel the heat in early November
The twin specters of inflation and the planet running hotter occupied investors going into November as the UN climate summit, COP26, got underway...
Chasing earnings and keeping powder dry
With four out of five US companies reporting Q3 2021 earnings that beat expectations, US equity markets climbed to fresh record highs during in late...
Earnings growth wrestles inflation for control of market narrative
Rising prices and higher-than-expected earnings shaped investor sentiment during the third week of October. Most of the companies reporting their...
Dealing with inflated expectations
Expectations for economic growth, US job creation and the transitory nature of inflation all took a knock during the second week of October as...
Caution reigns in early October
The first week of October saw US lawmakers sparring over the country’s debt ceiling, authorities in China scrambling to limit the wider damage...
ESG sounds good, but what does success look like?
Going into the final days of July, the Equity and Bond Funds with socially responsible (SRI) or environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandates...
A question of growth going into 2H21
For much of the year-to-date the question of just how much inflation recovering economies will generate, and just how transitory that inflation will...
Regulators turn their sights on ESG ratings agencies
EU and UK regulators are planning to scrutinize the role and transparency of environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings providers. It is a...