Asset allocation update: warning lights are flashing Multi-asset | October 2021

After 18 months of exceptionally strong equity markets, most measures of valuations look high against their own absolute histories.
Investment team updates – Bullet points 22 October

Our investment team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Asia Quarterly Bulletin – Spring 2021

In this issue we explore the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, what Biden might mean for Asia and much more.
Asset allocation update: standing pat

Maya Bhandari looks at how the team has managed its asset allocations over the past couple of months and where they believe the best risk-adjusted returns will come from.
Lessons from the backyard on fiscal policy

Getting the balance correct between short-term relief checks and long-term infrastructure spending is critical.
Asset Allocation Update – March 2021

At the end of last year, I reflected that you “gotta have faith in low discount rates” for risk assets, such as equities, to continue to perform well in 2021.
2021: gotta have faith – in low discount rates

It’s been a tumultuous 2020, but the year ahead will be different and we are positioning ourselves to get the best risk-adjusted returns over the next 12-18 months.
What the US election means for markets… and what it doesn’t!

The election cycle will increase short-term volatility, but we don’t believe it will have much influence on market averages over the long term.
Summer slumber soothes markets

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Discovering which business models will prosper after the pandemic

Negative, unchanged and positive impacts