Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Tesla stock gathers steam as reports show EV giant hits brakes on China plant production As Tesla halted the production line at its Shanghai plant, Steve Xinlei Shen uses EPFR’s Stock Flows dataset to assess to assess investor... Mar 20, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Nike, Adidas shoe supplier to cut up to 3,000 jobs in Vietnam this month Azalea Micottis expands on a recent Nikkei Asia article to deep dive into the latest Vietnam’s equity fund trends using EPFR Fund Flows and... Mar 20, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: US-China trade hits record high despite rising tensions Olivia Blaszkowski from EPFR takes a recent BBC article to look into US investor sentiment towards China. Fund flows show that the tide is... Mar 20, 2023
Quants Corner, Quant Insights For bond fund flows, green is gold EPFR’s Vik Srimurthy uses our fund flows data to analyse the evolution of SRI/ESG funds (also called “green bonds”), and their... Mar 03, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America Post pandemic, the US and Europe have seen prices soar and policymakers have been scrambling to slow the pace of inflation. Europe and the US took... Feb 09, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Frontier and emerging markets: Inflection points The blog referenced in this piece emphasizes the importance of using historical relative performance of equity markets for developing robust... Feb 08, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: India raises $1bn from maiden green bond sale India sold its first sovereign “green” bonds on Wednesday, a debut that was well-received by the market. In this short Off the Wire piece, we will... Feb 08, 2023
Quants Corner, Quant Insights Comfort with China exceeds $1 trillion At the turn of the century, investing in China was viewed as a risky proposition. Foreign access to a notoriously volatile, retail-driven equity... Jan 30, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Will Turkey remain as the top-performing market in 2023? Turkish equity markets were among the few in 2022 that managed to shrug off the angst fueled by rising inflation and tightening monetary policy,... Jan 30, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Japan government bonds: Is there a coming outflow? Is there a coming outflow in Japan’s long-dated government bonds? Where might this money be reallocated to? Who is the investor? EPFR Quant... Jan 27, 2023
Quants Corner, Quant Insights Energy funds in a time of war This blog will examine the impact the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has had on global energy markets and the calls investors have made during... Jan 11, 2023
Off The Wires, Quant Insights Off the wires: Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes High energy prices have been a norm for 2022 with consistent pressure from the Russia-Ukraine conflict as it leans into the 300th day mark, while... Jan 09, 2023
Quants Corner, Quant Insights Retail flows: The wisdom of “dumb money” In this blog, we utilize some of EPFR’s oldest strategies to test the predictive powers of the retail flows captured in the universe of 150,000... Dec 14, 2022
Quants Corner, Quant Insights Separating the wheat from the chaff in China Of the $82 billion that investors committed to all EPFR-tracked Emerging Markets Equity Funds through the first 10 months of 2022, three-quarters... Nov 29, 2022
Quants Corner, Quant Insights Inflation is on the rise. So is fear Driven by supply chain, labor market and energy supply issues, consumer prices are surging at a rate last seen in the 1970s and 1980s. To what... Jun 28, 2022