As conflict in the Middle East has repriced markets, we look at the sectors and themes that are driving our asset allocation and security selection.
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A monthly market update featuring global equity and fixed income performance, sector and asset class trends, and key themes shaping the investment landscape.
Liz Harrison, Fixed Interest Strategist – ESG, explores how the conflict is doing more than lifting oil prices: it is reshaping ESG through energy security, food inflation, health risks and national preparedness.
Emma Lawson, Fixed Interest Strategist – Macroeconomics in the Janus Henderson Australian Fixed Interest team, provides her Australian economic analysis and market outlook.
Perspectives on investing through geopolitical tensions, broadening earnings growth, the uncertain path of inflation, and AI disruption risk.
Corporate credit has stayed firm amid the volatility related to the Middle East conflict. We explore why volatility has stayed contained and what this means for investors.
Allocating to Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs) opens up access to diversification and defensive income. How do CLOs work and what can history tell us about the asset class?
AI is driving dispersion in software. We analyse where CLO managers’ views are broadly aligned, where they diverge, and why active CLO manager selection remains key as bifurcation in the loans market continues.
Key considerations for investors as they navigate the impact of the rapid acceleration of AI-related capital spending on fixed income markets.
Liz Harrison, Fixed Interest Strategist - ESG in the Australian Fixed Interest team, discusses the team's ESG enhancements and accomplishments in 2024 and 2025.
Jay Sivapalan, Head of Australian Fixed Interest explores how investor complacency is masking growing credit vulnerabilities, and making disciplined risk compensation, diversification and active downside protection essential as defaults are likely to rise from historic lows.