Tag: ETF economic and industrial analysis

Last week’s U.S. debt ceiling deal removes near-term uncertainty and thrusts the market’s focus back to the macro picture: sticky inflation due to tight labor markets. But we do think higher-for-longer interest rates will

Also, this increased yield and carry associated with EM local currency debt come with a lower sensitivity to interest rate movements (duration) when compared to other asset classes within the fixed income spectrum.

With this in mind, more investors could turn away from MCHI and similar funds whose next moves are difficult to assess, and instead dabble in more stable emerging market ETFs. I discussed this same point in my

China’s reopening surge collapsed at the end of January, and Chinese equities have slowly lost popularity, contradicting Wall Street analysts’ strong conviction calls at the beginning of 2023. In addition, analysts have cut their growth predictions due to weaker-than-expected economic data, the weakening yuan, the debt challenges in the real estate market, and concerns over deteriorating relations with Western nations have further dampened the Chinese equities outlook.

Emerging markets (EM) have been regarded as a high risk, and predominantly risk-on asset class, when the Covid crisis occurred in Q1, 2020[1]. Fears centred on the risks of deep contagion across the asset class, characteristic of previous crises in the late-1990s, and during the GFC, should cross-border capital flows collapse, after Lockdowns and extreme risk aversion.

Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a scheme linking their respective ETF markets. The scheme will allow ETF issuers in both

As such, consider the Sprott Energy Transition Materials ETF (SETM), which has a significant portion of its holdings in Australian companies (23.1% of the fund as of April 28). Australia boasts a vast lithium ore

Master Plan 3 includes re-powering the existing grid with renewables (solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, etc.), switching to electric vehicles (“EVs”), switching to heat pumps, and some use of green hydrogen

Kathy Bostjancic, Chief Economist, and Kristi Martin Rodriguez, Senior Vice President of Nationwide Retirement Institute, provided their insights on recent investor sentiment, recession expectations, and the ever-

Benz: Well, equities have not been great, as you might expect, because stocks tend to respond to the economic environment, especially if the company is selling discretionary goods or services, people pull back in

As a result, we expect inflation to continue to decline in the coming months – with ramifications for diversified multi-asset investment strategies. Growth assets, such as equities, have become more

In the 2010s, many were concerned that government programs to stimulate the economy through increasing stock prices that generated a “wealth effect” were not doing enough to stimulate economic growth. The

Anna Castro: So long-term US government debt that’s, like, 10-plus years, 10, 20, 30 years, are offering around 3% income yield, which we have not seen in the past 15 years. Anna Castro, Senior Portfolio

We’ll also analyze the historical lead and lag times of a developing recession, address the few false recessionary signals that exist, and offer some thoughts on how business cycles impact different investors. Many