Pastures new: Asset Liability Management in today’s reporting environment
The methods that insurers use to report profit to shareholders and solvency to regulators have been changing. This is the result of new accounting standards and solvency capital regulation in many markets.
Global Emerging Market Equities: an unexpected Q1
Looking back over an extraordinary first three months, and trying to gauge what the future might bring, we remain on the lookout for quality top-tier companies
Why growth will trump value in the long grind of recovery
The swift and intense economic volatility caused by the Covid-19 crisis has left investors with something of a blind spot. Traditional business cycle analyses have no inputs for a global pandemic, making it hard to judge how to position portfolios for a market rebound.
Covid-19: what exactly is going viral?
The coronavirus outbreak is extremely complex, with the fear of the virus so far seemingly greater than its actual impact. The economic consequences, however, are very real.
European equities: Coronavirus market volatility – performance update
Markets are very weak and volatile, as you would expect with such uncertainty around the Covid-19 outbreak.
Global equities: Coronavirus market volatility – performance update
Concerns around coronavirus have been felt in global equity markets for more than a month now. However, things escalated last week, with the steep sell-off in oil further compounding fear around the recessionary impact of the virus.
Recession risks: Coronavirus + oil shock + what else?
To begin with, supply was the concern, but now demand is at risk. What is without doubt is that recession risks are elevated.Recession
International Women’s Day special podcast
In this special edition from the team behind Eye of the Needle, we’re talking to Maya Bhandari, Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager, and Tammie Tang, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. They tell us about their routes into asset management and their respective asset classes, how the industry has changed over the past decade, and offer advice to women aspiring to work in finance.
Weighing up potential market impacts from the coronavirus
As the virus outbreak spreads well beyond China, it is hard to forecast exactly what the economic impact will be, but it’s safe to say that consumption and supply will be significantly affected
Responsible Investment has become increasingly important for many asset owners, so what does 2019 hold?
At a time when demand for ESG integration is growing and confidence in the investment impacts of traditional ESG approaches remains high, data science offers the additional prospect of solving for the effective integration of meaningful non-financial analysis in investment, at scale and with global reach.
