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Medical Technology Stocks: Innovation Endures as Valuations Reset
  • 11 hours ago

How can medical technology companies diversify an equity allocation to healthcare?  Investors are questioning the staying power of medical technology (medtech) stocks, which have fallen from grace...

Charting a Distinct Course to Asia’s Awakening Equity Markets
  • 30 Apr 2026

Asian equities offer hidden value in dynamic companies across fast-growing economies. Global investors are rediscovering Asia ex Japan (AxJ) equities. Yet, the region’s constituents move to differ...

Iran war: Risk on, energy off
  • 30 Apr 2026

Markets cheered the ceasefire, but the energy shock persists. Stagflation looks unlikely, yet oil shortages are straining economies and driving asset divergence.

Global Listed Infrastructure: March Monthly Commentary
  • 30 Apr 2026

The global listed infrastructure sector weakened over March as the war on Iran and the subsequent impact on global energy prices drove a ‘risk off’ attitude in markets. The benchmark index (FTSE Gl...

Why invest in farmland?
  • 29 Apr 2026

Investor interest and demand for natural capital solutions continue to rise—positioning farmland investment as an increasingly valuable real asset opportunity. For decades, agriculture as an asset...

Quick Thoughts: Are markets complacent?
  • 29 Apr 2026

When we asked some investors to rank their greatest economic fears, soaring oil prices topped the list. Yet equity markets have rebounded sharply and asset prices have snapped back, even as economi...

Emerging markets update: Resilience through volatility
  • 29 Apr 2026

Although sentiment remains sensitive to headlines around the Strait of Hormuz and energy markets, Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Debt team sees an asset class that has shown it can absorb sh...

The transition of power at the Federal Reserve
  • 29 Apr 2026

Fed transition worries look like a tempest in a teapot as institutional resilience holds and geopolitics shape policy.

Staying on track without Energy: what the sector’s exclusion means for portfolio active risk
  • 29 Apr 2026