EJUL News and Press, Innovator MSCI Emerging Markets Power Buffer ETF - July From 01/12/21

This Bespoke Asset Class Performance Matrix (ACPM) shows that as of 1/8/21, Emerging Markets have started the year with decent returns. Oakmark International is particularly appealing given it's 3-year return (just barely positive) and its percentile rank in the high 90s for the 3-yea...

The near-term outlook for EM inflation is mostly benign, but regulated prices, minimum wage increases, and higher commodity prices point to upside risks. The latest inflation releases across Emerging Markets ((EM)) [Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia] were in line with the predomina...

The consensus sees EM benefitting from the U.S. "Blue Wave". Local developments are the main drivers in Brazil and South Africa, causing the respective currencies to underperform peers by a wide margin. China's decision to extend the favored loan policy for small and medium-size c...

A long history of extremely low yields in Japan suggests that low yields do not necessarily map to low returns. Amid the dramatic sell-off in risk assets in March 2020 as the global pandemic took hold, and again in September 2020 when equity markets pulled back sharply, government bon...

Global stocks rose during 2020, fueled by massive monetary policy efforts from central banks and fiscal policy support aimed at preventing a total economic collapse under the coronavirus pandemic. For most of the year, growth stocks outperformed value by a wide margin. A broadenin...

The latest manufacturing activity gauges in Emerging Markets looked promising. Turkey's inflation beat consensus by a wide margin in December, but we doubt this will lead to another rate hike later this month. Mexico's overseas remittances growth is set to exceed 10% in 2020, cont...

We share three key lessons we learned from 2020 – and how they inform our 2021 outlook. The UK and European Union agreed on a trade deal. The U.S. launched a new $900 billion fiscal package amid climbing Covid hospitalizations and deaths. This week’s U.S. nonfarm pay...

With the exception of broadly defined commodities and US and foreign property shares, global markets posted solid gains last year. US stocks were the top 2020 performers, with the Russell 3000 Index surging 20.9% last year. US REITs saw the deepest loss for the major asset classes...

Emerging market growth stocks have had an unprecedented run versus value over the past decade. Growth stocks have been clear beneficiaries of the two big trends in financial markets under COVID-19 - negative real rates and great economic uncertainty. These twin forces have made ex...

Largely tied to the fate of the US dollar, the underperformance of emerging markets relative to their developed counterparts may finally be ending. A rising US dollar causes the domestic currency of emerging economies to fall and inflation to rise amid weaker economic growth. On a...