Weekly review and global economic outlook for the week ahead – week commencing 4 June 2018

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Summary Political developments in Italy dominated market performance over the week. Sharp volatility in Italian and other Eurozone equity markets and yields on 2-year Italian government bonds rose to their

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Italy – an idiosyncratic story: Insight Investment

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April LaRusse, head of fixed income investment specialists, at Insight Investment, a leading global fund manager notes about the Italian crisis: “In contrast to the European sovereign crisis, Italy is

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Global macro-economic commentary from Insight Investment for the week ahead (week commencing 14 May 2018)

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Summary The price of oil rose through the week as the US exited the nuclear deal with Iran. The potential inflation impact of this helped push up rates and the

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Global macroeconomic commentary for the week ahead (week beginning 30 April 2018)

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Summary It has been a very positive earnings season in the US so far, although share price reaction during the week was mixed. Economic data released during the week was

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Debunking ESG myths in Emerging Market Debt

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Investors often discount the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis in Emerging Market Debt (EMD) investing, based on perceptions that emerging market governance is inherently weak or that

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Global economic commentary from Insight Investment for the week (starting 9 April 2018)

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Summary Portfolio performance was driven by positive returns in equity and total return strategies. This week has been dominated by trade war news. This initially caused risk assets to sell

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Putting principles into practice: Insight calls on banks to move global economy to more sustainable footing

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Insight Investment, a leading global investment manager, has written to 28 banks across developed and emerging markets urging them to consider green bond issuance. It calls on them to support

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Global macroeconomic update on the week ahead – week beginning 26 March

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Summary It has been another volatile week for equity markets, with many indices down 4%. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised its policy rate band by 25bp as expected,

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Global macro economic commentary on the week ahead from Insight Investment

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Summary Next week attention will remain on the possibility of trade frictions while Italian elections, the Chinese National People’s Congress and US labour market data will also be closely watched.

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EMD – Sector or specific allocation?

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While the emerging market debt universe has evolved beyond recognition over the last two decades, the way that investors approach the asset class has been slower to evolve. It is

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