Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
Yields were broadly higher across the globe in February, as market participants recalibrated their expectations for rate cuts for the remainder of the year and into 2025. The Broad Markets Fixed Income Team explores the impact on markets.
In this paper, the Emerging Markets Debt team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management explores the key drivers of sovereign bond ratings, spread performance and frequency of defaults.
For more than a decade, global market volatility was generally constrained, largely attributed to the quantitative easing and low-to-negative interest rate policies of most central banks around the world.
In his March TAKE, Senior Portfolio Manager Andrew Slimmon shares his thoughts on recent market strength.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Head of Emerging Markets Equity Amy Oldenburg was interviewed by Barron’s for their January cover story on investing in Saudi Arabia.
Use The BEAT as your timely resource for this month’s markets. Each edition gives you ideas and insights that show you how to navigate the current investment environment.
Relative to the volatility that fixed income investors became accustomed to in the last quarter of 2023, 2024 started on a quieter note.
We examine the counterintuitive behavior of U.S. public companies in the recent regime of “easy money” marked by below-average interest rates.