Insight multi-asset weekly update: US-China trade concerns returned to the fore, affecting risk sentiment

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Market and economic review US-China trade concerns returned to the fore and weighed on risk sentiment last week. Equity markets fell 2-6% over the week following the unexpected announcement of

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Insight Multi-Asset Weekly Update – all eyes on the Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday with a cut widely expected

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Market and economic review A positive week for risk assets, with US corporate earnings being well received by the market Global equities ended last week in positive territory on the

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Insight Multi-Asset weekly update: European Central Bank meeting on Thursday likely to be the biggest market focus

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Market and economic review Risk assets trade sideways on busy week for growth data and US earnings Global equities ended last week broadly flat despite a busy period for global

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Insight Multi-Asset weekly update

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Market and economic review Risk sentiment buoyed by a positive outcome from the recent Trump-Xi meeting Risk assets began last week on a strong note as the widely anticipated Trump-Xi

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Insight Multi-Asset weekly update: Key PMI data out this week

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Market and economic review Markets enter ‘wait and see’ mode ahead of the G20 summit In contrast to the recent rally, risk assets as well as government bonds traded in

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Insight fund added to market disruptor platform

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Insight Investment, a leading global investment manager, has announced the Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund has been added to the non-aligned, zero ongoing fee platform, uXchange. uXchange is a transactional

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Insight Multi-Asset weekly update: Mario Draghi hints at more interest rate cuts

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Market and economic review Dovish central bank rhetoric sent government bond yields sharply lower as risk assets rally Last week saw the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve

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Insight Multi-Asset Weekly Update: Anticipation continues to build for a Trump-Xi meeting at the G20 summit

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Market and economic review  Risk assets lose positive momentum in latter half of the week on global growth concerns, while government bond yields move higher Risk assets started the week on

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Insight Multi-Asset Weekly Update: World Bank downgrades 2019 global growth forecast

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Market and economic review After last week’s broad-based sell-off, risk assets received a reprieve on growing expectations of de-escalation in US/Mexico trade tensions via a possible postponement to the introduction

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Impact bonds falling short of min standards

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The market for impact bonds is increasingly diverse but many of the instruments coming to market fall short of the minimum standards for sustainability set by Insight Investment, a leading

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