Comment & Analysis Archives - Page 319 of 528

BlackRock’s Fink rejects accusations of being ‘woke’

January 18, 2022

The head of the world’s largest asset manager, which last week crossed the $10tn mark for the first time, used his annual corporate missive to chief executives to fight back against accusations that BlackRock was using its influence to push a progre

Comment & Analysis

Positive outlook and improving fundamentals – UBP

January 18, 2022

Macro and micro conditions in 2022 should be positive for credit markets, says Mohammed Kazmi, Portfolio Manager and Macro Strategist, in this podcast with Bernard McGrath, Senior Investment Specialist.

Comment & Analysis

Year of the Tiger 2022: How to avoid bad luck this Lunar New Year

January 18, 2022

The 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac are based on divisions of Jupiter’s 12-year orbital cycle

Comment & Analysis

Investment Review – Ruffer

January 18, 2022

All these factors are threats to capital values, at a time when those assets are partying. Our view is this is no time for exuberance – it is a time to keep safe.

Comment & Analysis

Ruffer: ‘There appears to be a lot of froth’ in the market

January 18, 2022

Investors have poured more than $1tn (£73bn) into equity funds in the past 12 months - more than the combined inflows of the past 19 years.

Comment & Analysis

BlackRock CEO Says Stakeholder Capitalism Isn’t ‘Woke’

January 18, 2022

For BlackRock and others, ESG investing has become a highly lucrative strategy.

Comment & Analysis

Wealth of world's 10 richest men doubled in pandemic, Oxfam says

January 17, 2022

New billionaire created every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds

Comment & Analysis

Factbox: Spies, lies and chairman's exit: Credit Suisse's scandals

January 17, 2022

The scandals in recent years that Switzerland's second largest bank had endured, Horta-Osorio had said after joining, were the gravest he had seen in his career.

Comment & Analysis

Banks turn to richest clients for 2022

January 17, 2022

The new wealth management team absorbed the bank’s trust and pension fund division along with other parts that could boost its capacity.

Comment & Analysis

Review of the week: Just like the old days

January 17, 2022

With COVID cases starting to roll over – in the UK at least – and investors settling down for some old-fashioned Fed watching, everyone is hoping 2022 will be a bit more like pre-pandemic times.

Comment & Analysis

Will spiking bonds yields disrupt the rally in stocks?

January 17, 2022

The market is pricing in many more rate hikes than before. Within the first two weeks of the year, the market has shifted its stance to expecting four rate hikes from the Fed this year.

Comment & Analysis

Key drivers in emerging-market debt

January 17, 2022

At the same time, the resurgence of acute Covid-19 uncertainty caused by the emergence of the Omicron strain has further impacted EM growth prospects, which were already dented by the likelihood of a Chinese slowdown.

Cookie Notice