Pictet Asset Management
Barometer: Stocks to power on despite lofty valuations
Pictet Asset Management’s Strategy Unit argues that resilient earnings growth still outweighs valuation concerns as bond yields rise.
Pictet remains overweight equities, with emerging markets and IT offering the strongest earnings prospec...
2026-10-21
2026-10-21
State Street Investment Management
Adding bonds, trimming risk
State Street Investment Management’s Keith Snell and Robert Spencer outline a more defensive tactical allocation as resilient growth is balanced against higher rates and uneven inflation progress.
The team reduced equity risk while increa...
2026-10-20
State Street Investment Management
US inflation rises as rate expectations shift
State Street Investment Management’s Simona Mocuta, Amy Le and Krishna Bhimavarapu assess how renewed US inflation pressure is shifting rate expectations alongside mixed signals from the UK and Australia.
US headline inflation rose to 3.7...
2026-10-20
ING Bank
Five ways the UK’s Autumn Budget could shock us
ING’s James Smith examines five ways the UK Autumn Budget could surprise investors as higher borrowing costs constrain fiscal flexibility. Five ways the UK’s Autumn Budge…
Fiscal headroom could fall from £24bn to a...
2026-10-19
Morgan Stanley
Real Rates Take the Lead
Morgan Stanley’s Broad Markets Fixed Income Team examines how September’s synchronized central-bank tightening reshaped global fixed-income markets.
Rising real yields, rather than inflation expectations, drove most of the selloff a...
2026-10-19
Janus Henderson
Looking under the hood: Differentiating between CCC high yield bonds
Janus Henderson’s Bradford Smith examines why historically wide CCC high-yield spreads may reflect concentrated issuer and sector stress rather than broader economic weakness.
CCC spreads have risen to around 1,000 basis points, but much...
2026-10-14
Neuberger Berman
Why Private Markets Have a Role in Portfolios
Neuberger’s Anthony David Tutrone examines why private markets can still play an important role in portfolio construction despite slower exits and mixed recent relative performance. Why Private Markets Have a Role…
Private equ...
2026-10-14
State Street Investment Management
Resilient US Growth Contrasts With Softer Canadian and Japanese Demand
State Street Investment Management’s Simona Mocuta, Amy Le and Krishna Bhimavarapu assess diverging economic signals across the US, Canada and Japan. wep-20261012
US services remain resilient, but consumer sentiment is near record lo...
2026-10-13
Robeco
Private credit: Opportunity, risk and selectivity in a maturing market
Robeco’s Maurice Meijers examines how private credit’s rapid growth is creating both attractive lending opportunities and pockets of emerging risk.
Europe’s lower mid-market may offer favourable risk-return characteristics thr...
2026-10-12
AllianceBernstein
What Higher Interest Rates Are Telling Insurance Investors
AllianceBernstein’s Eric Winograd and Geoff Cornell examine why higher long-term government bond yields may reflect structural forces beyond inflation.
Rising AI investment and productivity expectations could lift long-term growth and the...
