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Investment Outlook 2021
What should be on the radar for investors in 2021? Market GPS helps direction-set with a video summary, in-depth asset class analysis and our latest portfolio manager views.
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Finding value in each other: Active collaboration in stock and bond analysis
Assessing the benefits of active collaboration in stock and bond analysis.
COVID variants: The impact on pandemic trajectory & biopharma stocks
Making sense of the latest developments around COVID-19 variants and what investors should consider now.
A step closer to a digital future
Portfolio Manager Denny Fish explains how this past year brought the global economy closer to a digital future.
Multi-asset outlook 2021 – all change
News of game-changing vaccines have heralded a dramatic change in expectations for markets and the economy in 2021. Paul O’Connor, Head of the UK-based Multi Asset Team, considers the rationale behind this optimism.
European loans: as varied as Bertie Bott’s every flavour beans
Elissa Johnson and Tim Elliot, secured loans specialists within the Secured Credit Team, highlight how European loans can provide the opportunity to invest in an asset class offering a wide range of risk adjusted returns.
Value rotation represents a style change for 2021
Portfolio Manager Luke Newman highlights the distinct challenges the pandemic posed in 2020 and considers the prospects for absolute return in the months ahead.
How the return to “Normal” could reshape markets
Options prices signal that the global economy’s reopening could mark the beginning of a shift in long-term market trends, says Head of Global Asset Allocation Ashwin Alankar.
Sustainable equities: the future is green and digital
Hamish Chamberlayne, Head of Global Sustainable Equities, discusses his expectations for sustainable equities in 2021.
A positive backdrop for US equities
Though volatility is likely to continue, Portfolio Manager Jeremiah Buckley thinks the outlook for equities remains constructive as we progress past the election and get closer to the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Diversified alternatives: adapt and evolve
David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, argues for new thinking for investors’ portfolios in 2021, following a year in which the pandemic posed unfamiliar challenges for industries.
ISG Insight: a mostly benign outlook for US inflation
The stabilisation of US economic growth amid unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus has raised questions about the likelihood of inflation returning. Jim Cielinski, Global Head of Fixed Income, and Andrew Mulliner, Head of Global Aggregate Strategies, both members of the Fixed Income Investment Strategy Group (ISG)*, explain why they do not see significant risks of sustained higher inflation materialising in the next few years, though caution that short-term spikes are possible and investors should evaluate the diversity that their fixed income portfolios provide.
A potential turning point in the battle against COVID-19
Delivering better-than-expected trial data, a vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech could mark the beginning of the end of the pandemic and boost confidence in an economic recovery, now underway.