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...
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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...
Investors still searching for that elusive fix
What narrative to back? The developed markets reflation story? An increasingly green future? A fairytale financial universe populated by...
Assets continue to build up in US Money Market Funds
While pent-up consumer demand and catch-up business investment have been key assumptions behind the US reflation story, one reservoir of fuel for...
Flows following growth stories in mid-April
Investors went for big and growing during the second week of April. China Equity Funds rebounded from their first consecutive outflows since...
Treasury yields slip, ETF assets march higher
Going into the final week of the first quarter, global markets were treading water amidst a welter of sometimes contradictory events and...
Two weeks into the year of the Ox, China funds see flows spike
For Chinese citizens the Year of the Ox began on February 12. Horoscopes for this year say it is a good one for building up reserves and making...
Silver gets the retail medal going into February
Retail efforts to squeeze real and perceived institutional short positions dominated the headlines for the second week running in early February....
Global funds enjoy strong inflows as Biden takes reins in US
Three weeks into the New Year, general optimism about the global economy continues to clash with specific worries about the capacity of the COVID-19...