Ben Bennett, Head of Investment Strategy Asia, shares his thoughts on how higher long-end yields shaping cross-asset performance.
Investors spent the week grappling with the price of resilience, as robust growth and rising energy costs complicated the outlook for inflation and interest rates, pushing bond yields to multi-year...
In this episode of Dollars and Sense, we discuss how securitised credit can diversify portfolios and deliver resilient fixed income returns.
China’s AI models raise questions about US models’ pricing, spending and valuations. We examine why we favour hyperscalers and semiconductor firms as winners of the next AI phase.
Geopolitical tensions remain elevated and are likely to generate periodic volatility but the broader backdrop remains supportive of risk assets, underpinned by resilient global growth, healthy labo...
The cycle is shifting. Beta is fading. Dispersion is rising. AI is fragmenting. Read in our Hedge Funds Outlook H2-2026 which strategies win
A multifaceted perspective is critical for a full understanding of opportunity and risk. At the halfway point of 2026, resilient growth, persistent risks and tight spreads complicate insurance po...
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Global sustainability funding needs are overwhelmingly concentrated in emerging markets, yet impact capital still skews to developed markets. The September Emerging View sets out why EM public debt...
Our global capital markets outlooks generally moved lower in the second quarter as risk assets rallied sharply. The rebound reversed much of a first-quarter rotation into value stocks, with strong...
Our Mid-Year Capital Market Assumptions highlight that asset return forecasts have generally improved, supported by higher interest rates and more attractive equity valuations. Our 10-year assumpti...
Our long-term asset class forecasts are forward-looking estimates of total return and risk premia for major asset classes. Read our update for Q3 2026.
Our latest Capital Markets Assumptions point to a familiar but important conclusion: we still see a narrower band of outcomes across asset classes, as central banks do less to suppress rates in...
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