Hidden GEMs: Resilience and divergence: emerging markets are forging ahead in a new era for investors

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Conflict-related commodity market disruption is just the latest in a series of shocks testing policymakers and unsettling investors. Yet a familiar pattern is playing out in markets. Grant Webster, Co-Head

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Globalisation gets harder: A new era of constraint, competition and volatility

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The era of “easy globalisation” is over. Investors and policymakers now face a more fragmented, volatile and politically charged global system, in which long-standing assumptions about growth, inflation and market

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Hidden GEMs: Emerging market private credit stands appear as cracks appear in US private credit

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Private credit has grown into a roughly US$3 trillion global asset class since the Global Financial Crisis – but it’s now facing its first serious test. In the US, high-profile

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Macroscope: Is the Iran crisis an early 2020 moment for markets?

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War in the Middle East and the disruption of energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz has potentially introduced a stagflationary shock at a time when markets were positioned for

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Macroscope: War in the Gulf

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Two outsized geopolitical risks have been on the market’s radar for years, though not always with equal prominence. The first is an escalation in Taiwan, and the second is one

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Sustainable Equities 2026 Outlook: Investing in an evolving energy transition

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Sentiment towards decarbonisation has weakened in recent years, but underlying earnings performance has remained resilient. High-quality enablers of the energy transition have continued to deliver strong, above-market earnings growth, even

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Credit 2026 Outlook: Build up your core strength and stay flexible 

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After a strong run for global credit markets in 2025, investors heading into 2026 face a more complex and selective environment.  Credit markets delivered robust total returns last year, supported

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Emerging market equities 2026 outlook: A once-in-a-generation opportunity

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Emerging market equities enter 2026 with a compelling combination of improving fundamentals, greater policy visibility and deep structural growth drivers. Despite geopolitical noise and macro uncertainty in 2025, the asset class

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Government bonds: the end of the shock absorber

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Sticky inflation, rising fiscal strains and weak growth are eroding the role of bonds as a portfolio ballast, forcing investors to rethink defensive diversification, according to Sahil Mahtani, Head of

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The shrinking upside in the dollar story

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Ninety One has published the latest in its research series examining the strategic implications of shifting macro dynamics for the US dollar and global portfolio construction.  The Shrinking Upside in the

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