Macroscope: How DeepSeek might dethrone the dollar

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Last week, DeepSeek, a China-made artificial intelligence (AI) model shook the tech world, bringing a new AI chatbot to market at a fraction of the price of other key global

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Chinese New Year: Navigating the Year of the Snake

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Looking back at 2024, Chinese government bonds delivered strong returns relative to other fixed-income asset classes, with a total return of 6.2%, outperforming US treasuries (1.6%), and the euro benchmark

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Ninety One appoints Justin Jewell

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Ninety One, a global investment manager with £130.2 billion AUM (as at 31.12.24), has announced the appointment of Justin Jewell as Portfolio Manager to its DM Specialist Credit team. Justin

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Ninety One extends its offering to wholesale investors in Australia

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Ninety One, the $170.9 billion (AU$ 246.3bn as at 30.09.24) active global asset manager, is expanding its Australian presence with the launch of the Global Franchise Fund to a wholesale

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Ninety One launches Sovereign Biodiversity Index

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Ninety One, the global investment manager with £128.6 billion AUM (as at 30.06.24) has announced that it has launched a Sovereign Biodiversity Index[1], which provides a quantitative way for investors to assess

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Ninety One’s Global Environment strategy awarded mandate from significant US asset owner

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Strategy seeks to capture the structural growth driven by decarbonisation Ninety One, a global investment manager with $162 billion in assets under management[1], announced that the California State Teachers’ Retirement

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Powering the AI revolution: a superscale cleantech opportunity?

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The amount of electricity consumed by AI is forecast to exceed 85 terawatt hours annually within a couple of years, more than many small countries[1]. The latest whitepaper by Deirdre Cooper,

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Picture this: dislocation and distress in high-yield debt

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Ninety One’s Multi-Asset Credit team explains that historically expensive valuations coupled with elevated levels of distress mean the high-yield corporate debt market is an unattractive destination today. The team believes investors

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Quality Insights: Navigating an increasingly concentrated market

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The narrow leadership in global equities is unprecedented. It is also dangerous. Clyde Rossouw, Head of Quality, explains why markets do not appear as healthy as the headlines suggest, and

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Paul Gooden joins Ninety One’s Natural Resources team

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Ninety One has announced that Paul Gooden has joined its Natural Resources team. Subject to regulatory approval, Paul, will become Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Natural Resources strategy, which he

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