A cautious response to Trump administration’s green light for private equity
Towards the end of the second week of August, the US administration removed a major barrier to 401K retirement plans investing in private equity....
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More mixed signals in early August
The search for stable outcomes and yields helped steer another $23 billion into Bond Funds during the first week of August, continuing a trend that...
Investors seek alternatives in mid-July
A raft of second quarter earnings reports from major US financial companies during the second week of July showed that there are some beneficiaries...
New quarter, same tariff-related rhetoric
The third quarter of 2025 began the same way as the second, with US President Donald Trump roiling markets with a barrage of announcements about...
After torrid end to second quarter, investors take a breather
The final 10 days of the second quarter were marked by missile exchanges between Israel and Iran, the passage of the new American administration’s...
Attention in late June shifts from bunker busters to budget busters
With the fallout from American and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership undershooting expectations – at least for now –...
Iran strikes put energy shock on the table
Investors navigating markets in mid-June found themselves contemplating the painful truth that a quarter of the world’s oil supply transits the...
Middle East muscles back onto center stage
The first full week of June was marked by progress towards another Sino-US trade deal, better than expected US inflation data and several sovereign...
Emerging market funds seeing the light
With appetite for US assets dulled by the new administration’s idiosyncratic policy marking and a weakening dollar, EPFR-tracked Emerging Markets...
Bears claw Japan in late May
EPFR-tracked Japan Equity Funds suffered record-setting redemptions during the fourth week of May as another underwhelming Japanese government bond...
Fiscal discipline rears its ugly head in mid-May
The third week of May was marked by lackluster sovereign debt auctions, America being stripped of its final AAA debt rating and angst about the new...
For fund flows, back to the future?
Flows to EPFR-tracked funds during the second week of May had a pre-Liberation Day look as US Equity Funds snapped their longest run of outflows...
Investors bear down on slower growth
For EPFR-tracked mutual funds and ETFs, May began much as the previous month ended. Investors again bypassed US and China Equity Funds in favor of...
Will US policy respond to reality’s bite?
The final week of April saw the release of data showing the US economy stalled in the first quarter, new orders for Chinese exporters fell to a...
Investors keep shuffling their hands
With the policy swings emanating from US President Donald Trump’s administration continuing to buffet global markets, investor sentiment remained...