An unusual visitor comes knocking on Japan’s door. Did it RSVP?
After literally decades of being on the losing side despite serial, increasingly massive quantitative easing programs, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has...
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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...
Early-release flow data: jumping on a bandwagon?
EPFR’s daily flow data is usually released around 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) the following business day. That is – narrowly – too late to...
For investors, is AI all a game?
For the past six months it has been impossible to avoid headlines trumpeting some aspect of artificial intelligence (AI) – what it means, how it is...
Market Insights: on ESG
Flows for all SRI/ESG funds ballooned in 2021 – collecting a record yearly total of $462 billion in 2021 alone, then cooled in 2022 and have...
Off the wires: ESG investors play the long game
According to a recent article in the Financial Times, ESG is no longer the buzz phrase it used to be for private wealth managers looking to bring...