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Avoiding SaaSpocalypse Is About Underwriting Skill for Lenders
  • 20 hours ago

Benefit Street Partners suggests avoiding a SaaSpocalypse requires lenders to look beyond software exposure and assess the durability of a company's competitive moat in an AI-driven world.

The Price of Admission: Further equity upside comes with a cost—volatility
  • 20 hours ago

Resilient earnings, improving industrial activity and the AI investment cycle should continue to support equities, according to Putnam Equity’s Shep Perkins. But the same forces driving the market...

Seeking income in Asia’s growing markets
  • 20 hours ago

Asia’s AI and technology sectors may create income opportunities, while a focus on dividends and cash flow can help balance growth potential with concentration and valuation considerations.

Protect nature. Protect people. Enable better outcomes
  • 20 hours ago

Protecting nature is no longer seen as just an environmental challenge, it’s a social one. Our recent work moves the discussion from interconnectedness to consequence, showing why social impacts ar...

Trending Forward: Metals & Mining
  • 20 Jul 2026

The evolution and future of softwareInvesting Insights from the Sustainable Equity Team

Mastering the world’s leading bond index
  • 20 Jul 2026

The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index is one of the world’s most widely used benchmarks for global fixed income. With more than 30,000 securities from more than 3,100 issuers, it reflects the b...

Magnificent 7 no longer moving as one trade
  • 20 Jul 2026

The AI trade is broadening beyond the Magnificent 7 as leadership shifts to semiconductor firms, while performance, valuations, and fundamentals diverge.

Artificial Intelligence, Markets, and the Difference Between Short-Term Winners and Long-Term Value
  • 20 Jul 2026

Investors have spent much of this year trying to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape markets and which companies are most likely to benefit over time.

Crypto enters the portfolio chat
  • 20 Jul 2026

Crypto is no longer fringe: rapid growth, ETF access and institutional adoption have lifted it to 1.1% of the Global Market Portfolio.