SCHE News and Press, Schwab Emerging Markets Equity From 05/05/21

Today's post rolls out the inaugural Risk Review column for the major asset classes, a monthly update that's the companion piece to the monthly performance report and risk-premia estimates. Risk analysis is a broad and deep subject and so this monthly update will be no one's idea of a...

After a decent start, emerging markets have lagged behind developed markets. Emerging markets don't necessarily correspond to neat value vs. growth or cyclical vs. defensive narratives. The best environment for emerging market economies is one of synchronized global growth. ...

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With greater clarity on the sustainability of the economic recovery, we also saw the opportunity set across markets broaden to include sectors beyond those seen as the primary beneficiaries of an economic reopening. As expected, the recovery hasn't been smooth sailing for all, with su...

We stick to our pro-risk stance and tweak our tactical views as the U.S. leads a powerful global economic restart and our new nominal theme plays out. Stocks were little changed on the week as markets digested strong first-quarter earnings reports and bond yields eased. The Federa...

The market has been trading on forward assumptions for the entire duration of the pandemic up to and including the present day. One year ago, the world was coming to terms with the reality of the damage wreaked by the pandemic, but the stock market had it all figured out. On April 23,...

When reviewing the current state of the global economy and investment markets, we recommend focusing on market signals and weeding out market noise. While the market signals we follow generally point to a constructive and "risk-on" economic and market environment for the rest of 2021,...

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

This US stimulus looks like overkill and might well have a bigger impact on inflation than the US Federal Reserve hopes for, but there's no doubt that it will give a strong short-term boost to growth. The European policy response pales by comparison and remains bedeviled by internal d...

In today’s low-yield landscape, income investors find themselves depending on higher-yielding investments such as bank loans, high-yield bonds and dividend-paying equities. Reaching for yield can be especially dangerous for income investors because of sequence risk - the risk o...