01/18/2022
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
01/18/2022
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.
01/18/2022
The 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac are based on divisions of Jupiter’s 12-year orbital cycle
01/18/2022
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.
01/18/2022
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.
01/18/2022
For BlackRock and others, ESG investing has become a highly lucrative strategy.
01/17/2022
New billionaire created every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds
01/17/2022
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.
01/17/2022
The new wealth management team absorbed the bank’s trust and pension fund division along with other parts that could boost its capacity.
01/17/2022
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.
01/17/2022
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.
01/17/2022
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.
01/16/2022
Luxury Defined spotlights a collection of homes for classical musicians, songsters, and rock stars
01/14/2022
The potential for a recovery later in 2022 remains and we see overall GDP growth at around 4.5% for the advanced economies and slightly faster than that in the emerging economies.
01/14/2022
UK smaller companies have usually outperformed in inflationary periods.
01/14/2022
On the inflation side, there was further evidence that supply-side bottlenecks are proving more persistent than was expected earlier in the year.
01/14/2022
We also provide a summary of our investment research – a hallmark of our investment practice, as we often integrate findings into our management of portfolios.
01/13/2022
As a result, the new strain may do little more than slow, rather than stall further economic growth, as markets focus on high inflation and the end of central banks’ asset purchases.
01/13/2022
Flexibility in portfolios will be key to navigating the fully charged environment in 2022.
01/13/2022
From 2023 onward, most agree, growth will return to its long-term norm of around 3.5%, as if Covid never happened.