Does an Ethnically Diverse Board Mean Better Stock Performance?

Since the emergence of “Modern Portfolio Theory” and the “Capital Asset Pricing Model” in the late 1960s, institutional investors have taken a quantitatively driven approach to portfolio construction, looking to create portfolio diversification and obtain better risk-adjusted returns by balancing their asset-class exposures. This journey has seen several important advancements in thinking about how to optimally achieve desired results.

US political shifts are set to shape market sentiment, with Amundi predicting significant moves in equities, emerging markets and inflation as tax and policy changes take effect.”.

It’s all about confidence, says leading European asset manager Amundi, which expects multi-speed growth in the second half of 2024 marked by slow and uneven disinflationary trends and diverging dynamics.