Interest rates

Macro

What six signs show positivity in markets?

Negative market sentiment is understandable, but Kristina Hooper sees multiple reasons to maintain some positivity even in this difficult environment.

Asset Allocation

Identifying the tools you need to lean on in inflationary periods

Real assets are useful portfolio components in all market conditions. But in this inflationary environment, these assets could be essential.

Macro

Will supply constraints prove to be the differentiator between countries?

In a pre-pandemic world of great abundance, supply was rarely a constraining factor on growth or a driver of higher inflation.

Asset Allocation

Natixis survey shows global retirement security falters as inflation spirals

The annual Global Retirement Index reveals 2022 could be the most challenging year to retire in recent history, as market environment impacts pension savings.

Macro

Will ‘hot’ August inflation shift Fed’s interest rate trajectory higher?

The Federal Reserve may be pressured to target a higher terminal fed funds rate as it seeks to tame U.S. inflation expectations following strong price rises in August.

Investing

Is the current inflation structural or cyclical?

Now inflation has become an issue, governments across the world are making the same mistakes as in previous inflationary periods.

Investing

Seven issues in global markets to watch in September

From Europe’s natural gas crunch to the UKs new prime minister to Chinas stimulus measures, Invesco’s Kristina Hooper details seven issues she’s watching closely in September.

Equities

The signals that point to the market’s long-term recovery

History shows that a rally in a bear market can be something of a false dawn. Several components need to come together to signal a more sustained recovery.

Fund Flows

The return of the 1970s playbook

The Fed has reiterated that the main aim is to get inflation down – whether that creates a recession or not.

Asset Allocation

How lower equity volatility has reduced portfolio risk

Qontigo’s Multi-Asset Class Risk Monitor showed that a stronger co-movement of share prices and foreign exchange rates against the dollar reduced the risk of US assets.

Investing

Where do the world’s two largest economies go from here?

Both the US and China are at crossroads, with market participants and spectators looking for signs of where these economies are headed from here.

Data

Research shows US dollar ‘remains at strongest level in decades’

Qontigo’s weekly Equity Risk Monitor also revealed falling factor volatility has driven down index risk while Gulf Arab markets came out as top performers.