News and insights

Read or watch the latest opinions from our fund managers and other experts.

Adding upside potential to insurance portfolios

We look at how an ‘Equity Enhanced Fixed Income' approach could offer insurers an attractive return profile, while providing equity risk management capabilities. And importantly, it can be delivered in a capital efficient way.

Read the article

Five ‘swords of Damocles’ hang over markets

Global market are facing several issues, including the fast-approaching deadlines for another US government shutdown, a US-China trade deal, and Brexit.

Read more

A modern-day War of the Roses

Is a real winner possible in the US-China trade war? In an era of globalization, trade wars mean losses for all sides.

Learn more

2019 investment outlook – Asian and emerging markets

2019 promises to be a challenging environment, but Ian Hargreaves and William Lam think emerging markets will be able to withstand the pressures.

Read the outlook

2019 investment outlook – Global markets

Divergence, disruption and debt overhang – three key themes to watch in 2019. Read Kristina Hooper and Arnab Das' outlook.

Read

Industrial revolution 4.0: Ghosts of disruption past, present and future

The fourth industrial revolution has the potential to transform economic and financial activity at global, national, firm and household levels. We discuss some of the key transitional challenges that are unfolding via digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence.

Learn more

Proxy voting: the hallmark of active ownership

In this whitepaper we discuss how institutions can overcome the challenges with regards to proxy voting and maximize the opportunities with regards to responsible investment.

Learn more about proxy voting

Balance sheet normalisation for US central bank

The balance sheet of the US Federal Reserve has expanded strongly in recent times due to the impact of quantitative easing. At some point, this process will need to be reversed. How will the US central bank go about shrinking its balance sheet and will it be disruptive to financial markets?

Read John's outlook in full

Old wine, new cork

As investors in European and Global Smaller companies, Oliver Collin and I often think about innovation as one of the key value drivers of the stocks we own in our portfolios. We see innovation as a driver of multiple benefits; sustained growth, new market opportunities, strengthening existing market shares, creating efficiencies and margin improvement. Simply put, innovation enhances company returns.

Read more about innovation in the investment process