Features

Macro Views | features 2 Sep 16

The Brexit vote has had a wider impact beyond the UK and Europe, temporarily derailing the US Federal Reserve’s plan to raise interest rates and allowing other governments to argue that there is a crisis under way that needs to be addressed with more forceful stimulus. Japan is a case in point.

Emerging Markets | features 24 Aug 16

Emerging market bonds have undergone a remarkably quick transformation from one of the least loved asset classes to perhaps the most popular. This has been driven by the relative attractiveness of emerging market debt compared to developed market fixed income, but to what extent have the fundamentals of the asset class actually improved?

Companies | features 22 Aug 16

Legg Mason’s head of product strategy, Jaspal Sagger, and Justin Eede, the company’s head of insitutional sales, are confident their ‘parallel’ distribution and product strategies will help them navigate any hazards these uncertain times may bring post-Brexit.

Best Practice | features 18 Aug 16

The BNP Paribas multi-asset team tactic, in the current febrile environment, is to tread carefully in its search for alpha and let the fallout from Brexit, modest global growth and doubts over monetary policy play out.

Emerging Markets | features 15 Aug 16

In August 2015, emerging market equities were in the midst of the most serious market correction since 2008. A year on, investors are more bullish than ever about the asset class. Is this radical change of mood justified?