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In investing, the big five could more aptly refer to the connected categories of growth, inflation, interest rates, valuations, and style. 2022 is shaping up to be one of slowing toward more normal, healthy rates of economic growth and inflation, thereby paving the way to a sustainabl...

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, discusses his thoughts on the top themes to watch going into 2022. The world economy came into 2021 like a car going 200 miles an hour, which fueled by the biggest stimulus we'd gotten since World War II. The Fed is sort of the cause of the uncertainty ...

There are several reasons to be constructive about emerging markets (EMs) heading into 2022. Across EMs, positive structural forces remain apparent and are likely to foster fresh investment opportunities. Certain risks could change our overall EM outlook, although they are not in ...

Fueled by climate change and other environmental concerns, ESG-focused funds reached $3.9 trillion in AUM at the end of September 2021. As for the operational environment, most wind turbine blades are made of nonrecyclable composites. Green and renewable companies are attracting t...

COP26 was expected to deliver significant pledges to limit global warming to 1.5c degrees above pre-industrial levels. If national governments fail to meet their targets, companies will feel the pressure to pick up the slack. Our active ownership program has strategic focus areas ...

Despite ongoing inflation hype, the U.S. prices paid trend indicator peaked in June 2021 and turned down - this typically leads ISM Manufacturing prices by 2-3 months and suggests inflationary pressures will continue to reverse. Commodities are signalling a similar story, with the Gol...

Momentum for the U.S. Responsible Investing industry picked up in January when President Joe Biden signed executive orders to re-enter into the Paris Climate Agreement. In 2021 through October month-end, there were 110 equity and fixed income funds that launched focused on Responsible...

Not all Net Zero targets are created equal. Depending on historical and current carbon emissions, some are more ambitious than others. On average, we find that the current Net Zero targets will, if met, collectively deliver a global temperature rise of 2.1°C, well above the 1.5&#...

Twenty years ago, investors mocked the launch of the first ESG focused index called FTSE4Good. Two decades later, interest in ESG indices is driving some of the biggest allocations of capital today. FTSE Russell Americas Head of Sustainable Investment Tony Campos discusses what ha...

We see 2022 heralding a new market regime by delivering global stock gains and bond losses for a second year in a row - a first in about half a century. Stocks rallied back to near record levels and yields rose last week as worries of Omicron dissipated. China’s central bank lo...