Consilient Research considers the phenomenon of companies that both issue and retire shares around the same time. This behavior may fail the central goal of capital allocation, which is to buy low and sell high. Which one is it?
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
Demographics, policy, and digitalization are converging at a time of significant change for India’s economy. Amid ongoing uncertainty in China, investors have been seeking alternate ways to obtain exposure to Asia with India being a key destination.
Fixed income put in another solid performance in August despitre unprecedentedvolatility in the first two weeks.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” So said the scientists on the United Nations (UN) International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their sixth assessment report released in August 2021.1 Using their strongest phrasing ever to stress that human actions are responsible, this report heightened the sense of urgency to act on climate change.
At first glance, the first half of 2024 felt like a continuation of the 2023 market environment:
A weaker than expected non-farm payroll print was the catalyst to a risk-off panic that began the month. Markets were quick to price in a hard landing scenario, and there was even chatter of intermeeting rate cuts from the Fed.
Co-head of emerging market debt Brad Godfrey shares the potential diversification, income and return advantages of a growing and powerful asset class.
Craig Brandon, Co-Head of Municipals at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, joins Bloomberg Surveillance Radio
