Insight multi-asset weekly update: Government bond yields fell to multi-year lows, more Trump tariffs

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Market and economic review Government bond yields fell again to multi-year lows and risk assets were on the back foot as growth fears intensified In a holiday-shortened week with relatively

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Insight Multi-Asset weekly update: Equities markets weaken on trade and poorer growth data

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Market and economic review Equities and government bond yields fell again last week on data suggesting a poor growth outlook and increasing trade war tensions Continued escalation of trade tensions

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Insight Investment Australia appoints Amy Clements

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Insight Investment, a A$1trillion[1] global investment manager, has expanded its Australian team with the appointment of Amy Clements as a product specialist. Clements recently transferred to Sydney after six years at

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Insight Investment comments on World Bank Group’s new set of climate targets for 2021-2025

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The World Bank Group has announced a new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, doubling its current 5-year investments to around $200 billion in support for countries to take ambitious climate

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Insight Investment’s global economic outlook for the week ahead (week beginning 26 November 2018)

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Outlook On the data front, the German IFO survey (Monday) will be closely watched, given the recent weakness in the country’s manufacturing sector. While the end of the week sees

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Insight Investment comments on the new Mexican president

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Rob Simpson, emerging market fixed income portfolio manager at Insight Investment, part of BNY Mellon IM says: “When Obrador (AMLO) was elected the next president of Mexico last summer, investors

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Mapping markets: Insight Investment reviews the global fixed interest sector

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China the outlier in U.S. trade war negotiations “Although the US economy is expanding at a firm rate, global trade has been a significant concern for investors particularly as growth

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Insight Investment’s global economic outlook for the week ahead (week beginning 19 November 2018)

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Outlook A key focus for this week will be UK politics and whether there is sufficient support for a leadership challenge to Prime Minister May. The EC is also scheduled

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Insight Investment launches country sustainability risk model for sovereign assessments

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Insight Investment, a leading global investment manager, has developed a country rating model to explore how environment, social and governance – ‘ESG’ factors – affect sovereign debt portfolios. Insight’s rating

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Insight Investment’s global economic outlook for the week ahead (week beginning 12 November 2018)

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This week we receive inflation data in the US, UK and the eurozone, which will be of interest for signs of developing inflationary pressures. In addition, retail sales in the

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