HDMV News and Press, First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund III Horizon Managed Volatility Developed International From 08/14/19

Each month, ZEW surveys analysts to gauge how they're feeling about economic growth around the world, both for the current period and going forward. We spend far too much time looking at global data to try and paint a sanguine picture about the state of the global economy, but some of the nega...

Anecdotal evidence from global survey panellists shows that the worldwide outlook is becoming increasingly gloomy. Long-running trends such as trade wars and political tensions continue to dampen businesses' forecasts, while new tensions in Asia add to fears of an uncertain future. IHS Marki...

By Pater Tenebrarum Anti-Vigilantes We dimly remember when Japanese government debt traded at a negative yield to maturity for the very first time. This happened at some point in the late 1990s or early 2000s in secondary market trading (it was probably a shorter maturity than the 10-y...

Monetary authorities around the world are using an old playbook: lowering interest rates and the value of their currency in the hopes of stimulate growth in their region. Unfortunately, it won't work in today's VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambigous) environment. Our blog last week...

By Ansh Chaudhary President Trump started Wednesday morning off with a fresh round of tweets calling on the Federal Reserve to cut rates more aggressively. "Our problem is a Federal Reserve that is too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much (and that I was ...

Russ discusses how central banks once again have investors' backs. The global economy continues to struggle with sluggish growth. Trade frictions have not erupted, but nor have they been resolved. Iran just seized a British tanker and BlackRock's Global Index of geopolitical risk just hit ...

By Darren Williams Global markets have taken heart from a truce in the trade war and signs of yet more monetary-policy stimulus. Easy money may well give a short-term lift to asset prices, but longer-term prospects look more challenging, especially for Europe. We see two snags with the l...

By Hemant Baijal, Head of Multi-Sector Portfolio Management, Global Debt Senior Portfolio Manager , and Claudia Castro, PhD, Director, Fixed Income Research The Global Debt team expects a mix of moderate growth and falling inflation to have a positive impact on asset prices. The sec...

The second quarter of 2019 was marked by a favorable environment for U.S. large- and small-cap equity managers, in addition to emerging market and Japan equity managers, according to our manager research team. The quarter proved to be more challenging for Europe, Canada and Australia equity ma...

Who better has the pulse on what investors and businessmen are doing than Larry Fink, a longtime friend, who is head of Blackrock (BLK), the world's largest money manager? We were heartened to hear Larry say on the company's earnings call last week that investors are underinvested in equities;...