GMO
The Illiquidity Premium Is Losing Its Shine
GMO makes the case that the investment environment which powered private markets for decades has changed—and that investors are rediscovering liquid alternatives as a result.
The traditional 60/40 diversification assumption has become...
2026-07-30
2026-07-30
GMO
The Illiquidity Premium Is Losing Its Shine
GMO makes the case that the investment environment which powered private markets for decades has changed—and that investors are rediscovering liquid alternatives as a result.
The traditional 60/40 diversification assumption has become...
2026-07-30
Northern Trust
China Has Turned Trade Dependence Into Strategic Leverage
Northern Trust’s latest Weekly Economic Commentary examines a world caught between renewed Middle Eastern energy disruption and China’s growing willingness to weaponise its position in global supply chains.
China is now...
2026-07-30
Robeco
US Exceptionalism Is No Longer a Free Bet
Robeco argues that 15 years of American outperformance have quietly turned a successful trade into a portfolio assumption. The US remains dominant, but the conditions required to sustain that dominance are becoming more demanding.
US excepti...
2026-07-28
Nuveen
AI’s Next Bottleneck Is Infrastructure
Nuveen argues that the AI investment cycle is beginning to move beyond chips and data centres toward the physical systems required to power them.
Data centres can be built in 12–36 months, but electricity generation and transmissi...
2026-07-27
MFS Investment Management
AI's Next Test Is Cash Flow, Not Adoption
Robert M. Almeida draws a narrow comparison between today's AI investment cycle and the pre-2008 housing boom, arguing that the critical question is whether future cash flows can justify increasingly capital-intensive infrastructure spending....
2026-07-27
ING Bank
Czech Resilience Masks a Deeper Industrial Problem
David Havrlant examines surprisingly resilient Czech confidence data while warning that persistent pressures on European manufacturing could undermine the region's longer-term economic prospects.
Consumer confidence eased to 105.6&n...
2026-07-27
Columbia Threadneedle
Small-Cap Value Is Rallying, But Valuations Still Look Discounted
Jeremy Javidi and William Lamontagne argue that improving earnings, attractive valuations and AI-driven productivity gains are creating a stronger backdrop for U.S. small-cap value equities.
The Russell 2000 Value gained nearly 23% ...
2026-07-24
Allianz Global Investors
Property or an Income Fund? It Depends on More Than Returns
Allianz Global Investors' Should I Invest in Property or an Income Fund? Alexander's Dilemma uses a practical case study to compare owning rental property with investing in an income fund, arguing that the decision depends as much o...
2026-07-24
VanEck
Gold's Pullback Hasn't Broken the Long-Term Investment Case
VanEck's Gold Market Commentary argues that despite a sharp correction in gold prices during the first half of 2026, the structural investment case for gold and gold-mining equities remains intact.
After reaching record highs n...
