Kaletsky on why China crash is 'fantasy'
Speaking at our Senate Monte Carlo Investment Conference, Gavekal co-chairman and chief economist Anatole Kaletsky explains why investors should be more focused on prospects for the US than Europe and...
View ArticleFinding growth in a low-growth world
Meaningful macroeconomic risks in both the developed and emerging worlds are likely to lead to a period of low, but not collapsing, growth. In this new low-growth environment, investors will be...
View ArticleFixed Income Perspectives: The growth and maturing of markets such as...
In this thorough paper T. Rowe Price Associates discuss how investors are struggling to achieve yield in traditional core European markets, how the European high yield (EHY) market has seen a sharp...
View ArticleThe Big Debate: Global Equities
In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Guinness Asset Management and Threadneedle discussed Global Equities. Global markets have remained resilient at the start of the year despite...
View ArticleInvestment Companies – Fuddy Duddy Olympics 2012
With the real Olympics now just a few days away, we have re-visited the performance records of those open and closed end sectors where direct comparisons can be made, and reviewed these against...
View ArticleTed Scott – F&C’s Director of Strategy – discusses the outlook for the...
Recent data on the health of the global economy is painting a worrying picture for investors. The main concern is that the intractable eurozone crisis is dragging down the performance of not only the...
View ArticleMacro Market Update, 5th September 2012
After the strong start to the week, partly helped by weak data from China raising expectations of policy stimulus, markets have now taken a different view of further poor economic news from the US and...
View ArticleGoing global - investing in global equities
Globalisation was entirely anticipated, yet its pace was not. Accelerated by outsourcing and technological innovation (not least the rise of the internet), few could have foreseen how rapidly the...
View ArticleHow and Why Estonia Embraced Austerity
In 2008, faced with an economic crisis and shrinking tax revenues, the IMF forecast that Estonia would have a budget deficit of more than 10% of GDP in 2009 on unchanged policies. In response, Jürgen...
View ArticleAn introduction to the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index
This paper describes the current state of European small-cap and mid-cap (SMID) indexing and introduces the innovative approach the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index takes towards constituent selection.
View ArticleGilt Yields, Bubble Camps and Bad Debt: A Q&A With Michel Canoy, Head Of Uk...
Michel Cannoy discusses how he feels ‘Bubble Camp' is much too strong a term for the current state of gilts and what his take is on the divisive subject of bank debt.
View ArticleParala Macro and Markets White Paper: Includes a discussion of the Dow Jones...
The latest whitepaper from Parala Capital illustrates the link between macro and markets and lays out the foundations of the Parala model. The paper was written by Professor Russ Wermers who is one of...
View ArticleJapan: Abundant Opportunities
On their recent trip to Japan, Portfolio Manager and Director of International Research David Nadel and Analyst Dilip Badlani met with more than 20 companies in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya to flush out...
View ArticleGoing global - investing in global equities
Globalisation was entirely anticipated, yet its pace was not. Accelerated by outsourcing and technological innovation (not least the rise of the internet), few could have foreseen how rapidly the...
View ArticleLegg Mason subsidiary Legg Mason Capital Management reviews the previous...
• Monetary and fiscal policy appears to be turning from austerity to stimulus in an attempt to accelerate the tepid pace of recovery • Low embedded growth expectations, high returns on capital, and...
View ArticleLegg Mason’s Permal Tour Around the World Jan 2013
Isaac Souede offers insight on the current state of the world’s economies and markets.
View ArticleEurope: Is Quality Investing Still Relevant?
Quality investing has been a favored investment approach in recent years of economic and marketn turbulence. But is this approach still relevant, as the valuations of many perceived high-quality...
View ArticleManaging Risk in a More Volatile Investment World
Living in a More Volatile Investment World: Financial markets have experienced a dramatic increase in volatility. We believe that this trend might continue in the current zero-rate environment.
View ArticleLegg Mason’s Royce: Growth, Pause, Repeat
Frank Gannon discusses current conditions in the small-cap environment and potential shifts for 2013
View ArticleLegg Mason Horizons Market Outlook 2013
Legg Mason’s managers provide this guide on the prospects for 2013.
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