ROAM News and Press, Hartford Multifactor Emerging Markets From 05/02/23

2023-05-02 02:15:00 ET Summary Stock and bond markets ended the first quarter of 2023 with solid gains despite investor concerns. Gains in the stock and bond markets were primarily driven by a continued decline in interest rates, the rate of inflation, and surprisingly resilient e...

2023-04-25 11:55:00 ET Summary We believe fixed income markets present fundamental advantages that enable active managers to outperform benchmarks. These include market inefficiencies, index rules and reconstitutions, participant motivation, and trading inefficiencies. In fixed in...

2023-04-24 10:30:00 ET Summary We are leaning into our preference for emerging market (EM) assets due to China’s restart, ending EM interest rate hiking cycles and a weaker U.S. dollar. Global stocks were flat on the week. PMI data showed economic activity holding up in the...

2023-04-23 11:27:00 ET Summary The IMF expects slowing global growth and slowing global inflation to eventually return developed market interest rates down to levels that make sovereign debt sustainable. Banking problems in the US and Europe result in slower credit growth, but are...

2023-04-22 05:52:00 ET Summary Emerging markets have become a global hub for innovation. Data centers are essential for migration to ChatGPT. We are at the beginning of transitioning from the old world to the new world. By Sergey Davalchenko Transcrip...

2023-04-19 12:25:00 ET Summary China’s stronger-than-expected growth bodes well for many EMs – but does it also mean additional inflation risks down the toad? Even though the IMF spring meetings eased concerns about a recession in advanced economies, both the U.S. an...

2023-04-14 00:00:00 ET Summary Deposits are the main source of funding for EM commercial banks. Some frontier countries still lag in terms of regulatory best practices. The volatility seen in the aftermath of recent events created investment opportunities. There has ...

2023-04-12 01:39:00 ET Summary We believe that beyond China, EMs offer an attractive and differentiated opportunity set - one which drove our launch of our EM ex China Growth strategy. Ex China, EMs have much more technology (particularly semiconductor and broad hardware), materia...

2023-04-07 11:11:00 ET Summary The liquidity crisis impacting selected developed market banks has unnerved emerging market investors. Markets have recovered from the turmoil following the liquidity crisis impacting some banks in the United States and Europe. Emerging Asian sto...

2023-04-05 05:00:00 ET Summary Finding an effective way to address reinvestment opportunities will be crucial. Multi-sector should be more tactical, with the return objective generally expected to be positive in absolute terms over a cycle. The available sectors can be similar...