Deeper Thought

The 2024 Ruffer Review explores what the rise of artificial intelligence means for investors, the murky realities of cricket, and the “thankless endeavour” of forecasting. Also discussed are the technological developments that have shaped markets, and the political-economic ecosystem.

We believe that the ongoing disinflation process, combined with moderate global growth and the potential for central banks to ease monetary policy, presents a favorable backdrop for fixed-income markets. This summary is intended to aggregate the firm’s current overall views and present an at-a-glance dashboard.

The most widely followed global fixed income index includes emerging markets, but asset allocators looking to get full and meaningful exposure to the structural opportunity may need something different. The mighty ‘Global Agg’ Over the 50 years since they were conceived, Bloomberg’s Fixed Income Indices have grown to become a dominant force in fixed income…

A recovery in profits, strong incentives from the TSE for companies to improve capital efficiency and a shift out of deflation is boosting a market rerating in Japan.

Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team believes growth projections for the United States will continue to improve as a “soft landing” becomes the most likely outcome, while other economies may face harsher conditions. 

We expect markets to experience many storms in 2024. Portfolios that bend but don’t break are best suited to provide the resiliency for what lies ahead

Global financial markets have been subjected to multiple shocks over the past three years: the COVID pandemic; the end of quantitative easing, with the subsequent tightening of liquidity; the Russia-Ukraine war; and more recently, the unrest in the Middle East. For emerging markets, these developments have had implications for sovereign balance sheets, as well as…

Meeting for the first time, attendees at Think Forward, Pay Forward brought the rich conversations of Investor Strategy News (ISN)
to life.

Climate solutions, such as companies driving emission reductions through operational and supply chain efficiencies, offer attractive growth opportunities, driven by megatrends that have only accelerated in recent years, according to Morgan Stanley Investment Management. 

For most of the past 40 years, investors, policymakers and interested observers have become used to the idea of China as a fast-growing, emergent economy, well on its way to achieving middle-income status, with every hope of continuing along a path of resounding economic success. Recently, however, a different story has surfaced. This one portrays China…

Arguably, humanity’s greatest current challenge is the need to shift to low and net-zero carbon in a little less than 30 years. New technologies are accelerating the renewable energy transition while reducing environmental impacts. The renewable energy sources of today and the future require new and smarter technologies as well as the rapid creation of…

In its latest global investment outlook leading investment teams from Franklin Templeton provide a visual example and details on the investment opportunities they are most focused on today.