Market Pulse • 25-Jan-2021 | |
The Market Expects a Q2 Boom; The Virus Might Think Otherwise
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 19-Jan-2021 • 7:06 Min | |
The Biden Stimulus Package Takes Center Stage
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 11-Jan-2021 • 7:35 Min | |
How High Can Yields Rise Before it Spells Trouble?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 11-Jan-2021 • 10:37 Min | |
Fixed Income Update with Kevin Lynyak
Global Fixed Income Team
Kevin Lynyak, Head of Fixed Income Managed Solutions and Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses trends, risks and opportunities in the fixed income markets. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 04-Jan-2021 • 7:25 Min | |
Yields Are Low, But Fixed Income Opportunities Exist if You Know Where to Look
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 16-Dec-2020 | |
The Heat Is On
Global Fixed Income Team
Our Global Fixed Income team believe that vaccine makers, governments, legislators, central banks and citizens can deliver a bright economic future in 2021/22.
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Market Pulse • 16-Dec-2020 • 9:42 Min | |
The Case for Commodities This Decade
Active International Allocation Team
Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research for the Global Emerging Markets Team and Co-Manager of the Active International Allocation Portfolio, discusses commodities and their potential long-term benefit to emerging market economies.
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Market Pulse • 14-Dec-2020 • 7:11 Min | |
A Few Things Still on the Shopping List: Macro and Politics Do Not Take Days Off
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 07-Dec-2020 • 6:59 Min | |
Will the U.S. Job Loss Scarring Be Permanent?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 02-Dec-2020 | |
The Year Ahead for the U.S.: Fundamental Challenges Exist, but Policy Will Prevail
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides a timely insight on the fixed income markets today.
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Market Pulse • 30-Nov-2020 • 7:42 Min | |
What the Bond Market Is Telling Us About the Future of the Economy
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 16-Nov-2020 • 6:24 Min | |
First Look at 2021: Too Much Liquidity Chasing Too Few Assets
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 11-Nov-2020 | |
How Big Are the Waves?
Global Fixed Income Team
With the U.S. election in the rear-view mirror, the scope of fiscal stimulus and a resurgent virus remain two big questions for the global economy and bond markets.
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PATH • 10-Nov-2020 | |
US Presidential Election: The State of Play
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Market Pulse • 09-Nov-2020 • 7:21 Min | |
Presidential Election Series: The 4 Major Market Implications of a “No Blue Wave” Scenario
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 02-Nov-2020 • 6:25 Min | |
Presidential Election Series: Expect More Questions Than Answers – and Rising Volatility
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 30-Oct-2020 • 09:39 Min | |
The Markets and Presidential Elections Through a Historical Lens
Active International Allocation Team
Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research for the Global Emerging Markets Team and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Active International Allocation Portfolio, takes a historical look at the markets and presidential elections.
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INSIGHT AUDIO • 30-Oct-2020 | |
Presidential Election Series With Jim Caron
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 26-Oct-2020 • 7:44 Min | |
Presidential Election Series: Pricing in the Return of Demand
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 23-Oct-2020 | |
Market Update: A Silver Lining on the Horizon
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Market Pulse • 19-Oct-2020 | |
Presidential Election Series: The Impact of the Tax and Spending Plans
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Global Multi-Asset Viewpoint • 19-Oct-2020 | |
U.S. Industrials Poised to Outperform
Sergei Parmenov, Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
MSIM’s Global Multi-Asset Team discusses their investment perspective in the latest viewpoint: 'U.S. Industrials Poised to Outperform.'
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 16-Oct-2020 | |
The Devil Is in the Details
Global Fixed Income Team
Our Global Fixed Income team discuss a “most challenging month for financial markets” and argue their long risk position is the best way to position portfolios.
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Market Pulse • 05-Oct-2020 • 7:43 Min | |
Bonds Are Repricing on the U.S. Election
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 02-Oct-2020 | |
Road to Recovery: 2020’s Final Lap
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Market Pulse • 28-Sep-2020 | |
October Discovery: Is the Price Right?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 21-Sep-2020 • 6:42 Min | |
A Mixed Bag of Data, but Optimism About the Future
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 18-Sep-2020 | |
Animal Spirits and the US Election: Will Momentum Stall?
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 14-Sep-2020 | |
Consolidation Is the Name of the Game
Global Fixed Income Team
A benign August saw positive trends continue. How long will this continue, what does this mean for fixed income investors? The Global Fixed Income team explore.
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Market Pulse • 14-Sep-2020 • 4:47 Min | |
Fed Focus: Credit Rates and Solvency Risk
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 08-Sep-2020 | |
Warning: Ice on the road ahead
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Market Pulse • 08-Sep-2020 • 6:01 Min | |
Risk Off Today, but a Silver Lining Is on the Horizon
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 31-Aug-2020 • 5:58 Min | |
History in the Making: A Reworking of Fed Policy
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 21-Aug-2020 | |
Global markets: China’s positive outlook may not benefit the rest of the world
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.
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Market Pulse • 21-Aug-2020 | |
Where to Go From Here? Reimagining the Fed’s Policy Response Function
Global Fixed Income Team
In his latest Market Pulse, Jim Caron looks at how investors are incentivized to align with the Fed's policy response function, which should broadly support asset prices and ease financial conditions.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 14-Aug-2020 | |
The Song Remains the Same
Global Fixed Income Team
Despite good news on the policy front, challenges remain - U.S./China relations, U.S. fiscal cliff, U.S. elections and the pandemic - yet we remain optimistic.
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Market Pulse • 29-Jul-2020 | |
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: The Fed Keeps Rates Low While the Dollar Weakens
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 15-Jul-2020 | |
Can It, Will It, Continue?
Global Fixed Income Team
With infection rates rising globally we ask whether the economic recovery can continue if health and employment concerns depress earnings and spending power.
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Market Pulse • 06-Jul-2020 • 6:36 Min | |
Will the Sizzle Fizzle?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Global Multi-Asset Viewpoint • 30-Jun-2020 | |
Stars Aligned for Higher Inflation
Sergei Parmenov, Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
MSIM’s Global Multi-Asset Team discusses their investment perspective in the latest viewpoint: "Stars Aligned for Higher Inflation."
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Market Pulse • 29-Jun-2020 • 7:00 Min | |
Policy or Pandemic: Which Will Drive Asset Prices?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 22-Jun-2020 • 3:45 Min | |
Q3 2020: Better? Yes. But Good Enough?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 15-Jun-2020 • 8:12 Min | |
Credit Check with Richard Ford
Global Fixed Income Team
Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 15-Jun-2020 | |
The Tide Turns: It’s More than Hope
Global Fixed Income Team
Despite unprecedented bad economic data and the uncertain course of the coronavirus, markets continued on an upward trajectory in May and rallied further.
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Market Pulse • 15-Jun-2020 • 5:48 Min | |
New Normal? No Such Thing. The Market is Just Establishing a New Range.
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 08-Jun-2020 • 6:31 Min | |
The Reopening Rally and the Fed’s Forward Guidance
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 01-Jun-2020 • 6:36 Min | |
Follow the Money, Find the Performance
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 28-May-2020 • 3:05 Min | |
In a High Yield Minute
Global Fixed Income Team
Corporate liquidity profiles have been severely challenged during the lockdown. Sarah Harrison, Head of European High Yield, believes the policy response in Europe so far has helped stem default rates, and further action has the potential to restore investor confidence in the European High Yield asset class. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 26-May-2020 | |
The Breadth of the Market Is Encouraging
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 18-May-2020 • 5:59 Min | |
Credit Check with Richard Ford
Global Fixed Income Team
Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 18-May-2020 • 6:32 Min | |
Never Say Never: The Pros and Cons of Negative Interest Rates
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 15-May-2020 | |
The Long and Winding Road
Global Fixed Income Team
There may be many twists and turns on the road to full economic recovery, but the longer your investment horizon, the more confident we believe you should be.
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Market Pulse • 13-May-2020 | |
Where Are Bond Yields Going? It depends on what part of the curve you are asking about.
Global Fixed Income Team
The goal of the Fed’s policy response function is to prevent the liquidity crisis brought on by Covid-19 from becoming a solvency crisis. Jim Caron reviews the impact on bond yields.
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Market Pulse • 11-May-2020 | |
Jobs Report: Is the Worst Behind Us?
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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TALES FROM THE EMERGING WORLD • 07-May-2020 | |
Why Markets Are Partying Through the Pandemic
Global Emerging Markets Team
Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist, explains why stock markets are rallying amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Market Pulse • 07-May-2020 • 4:31 Min | |
Bank of England Update and U.K. Outlook
Anton Heese
Anton Heese, European Macro Strategist for the Global Fixed Income Team, offers his perspective on the May 7 Bank of England Monetary Policy Decision. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 05-May-2020 | |
The Market vs The Economy
Global Fixed Income Team
the Market Outlook is contingent on a combination of knowns and unknowns, in varying degrees:
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Market Pulse • 04-May-2020 • 8:51 Min | |
Credit Check with Richard Ford
Global Fixed Income Team
Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 04-May-2020 • 4:30 Min | |
The Risks Ahead: An Historically Weak Jobs Report & New U.S./China Tensions
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 29-Apr-2020 | |
The Fed: Playing a Strong Hand but Unwilling to Show Their Cards
Global Fixed Income Team
On April 29 the Fed indicated the need to keep credit flowing, for both for businesses and individuals. To date most of the Fed’s actions are supporting credit in the business sector, to the point where we do not believe the Fed has done enough with respect to consumer credit, particularly in light of their statements about keeping credit flowing to the “real economy.” Jim Caron looks at a Fed that is playing a strong hand, but unwilling to show all its cards.
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Market Pulse • 27-Apr-2020 • 4:51 Min | |
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: A Big Week for Global Central Banks
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 23-Apr-2020 • 04:24 Min | |
EM Leaders: Looking to Future Growth
Global Emerging Markets Team
Vishal Gupta, Portfolio Manager on the Global Emerging Markets team, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the Emerging Markets Leaders strategy. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 23-Apr-2020 • 2:56 Min | |
The Case for EM in the Post-Pandemic World
Global Emerging Markets Team
Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research on the Global Emerging Markets team and portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Breakout Nations and Active International Allocation strategies, provides timely insights on why we believe now is the time for emerging market equities. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 20-Apr-2020 • 6:21 Min | |
Whatever It Takes: Loan Programs, Oil & the Reopening of America
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 20-Apr-2020 | |
Recent Fed Actions: Implications for the High Yield Market
Global Fixed Income Team
The Fed’s involvement in the high yield market is unprecedented, so there is no prior history to look back upon as a guide. The Global High Yield team explores how the action could impact investors.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 16-Apr-2020 | |
The End of the Beginning
Global Fixed Income Team
We’re hopeful that policy actions will help the economy return to normal as the health crisis recedes. But it remains unknown how deep and protracted the downturn will be as we’re held hostage to the path of the virus.
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Market Pulse • 15-Apr-2020 | |
Allocating Fixed Income Assets Through the Great Unknown
Global Fixed Income Team
We are facing a health crisis the likes of which we have not witnessed for close to a century. A seismic move to de-risk portfolios has created volatility and illiquidity not seen since 2008, and it is against this uncertain backdrop we invest today. Read more about the Global Fixed Income Team’s best thinking.
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Market Pulse • 13-Apr-2020 • 6:36 Min | |
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: The Alphabet Soup of Liquidity & Solvency
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 08-Apr-2020 | |
Coronavirus: Markets’ excessive optimism
Global Balanced Risk Control Team
In this article, the GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning in light of the spreading impact of the coronavirus.
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TALES FROM THE EMERGING WORLD • 07-Apr-2020 | |
The Strange Shape of the Coronavirus Crash
Global Emerging Markets Team
Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist, makes the case for great opportunities in emerging markets in the After Coronavirus world.
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Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 4:44 Min | |
Credit Check with Richard Ford
Global Fixed Income Team
Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 4:27 Min | |
Credit Beat with Joseph Mehlman
Global Fixed Income Team
Joseph Mehlman, Head of U.S. Credit, provides timely insights on the fast-changing world of U.S. credit markets. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 6:15 Min | |
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: A Silver Lining - Volatility Is Dropping
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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Market Pulse • 02-Apr-2020 | |
Building a Better Transmission Mechanism: Extending Credit to the Real Economy
Global Fixed Income Team
It's critical to understand the policy reaction functions designed to support markets during times of crisis because it provides insight into which assets may perform best as the economy moves out of the crisis environment.
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Market Pulse • 02-Apr-2020 | |
Active International Allocation - Market Commentary
Jitania Kandhari, Ben Rozin
The MSIM Active International Allocation Team offers their perspective on the global markets and the AIA portfolio in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Market Pulse • 31-Mar-2020 | |
Rating Agencies Action Summary
Global Fixed Income Team
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted supply chains of many companies and caused commodity prices to fall. How will rating agencies react to this disruption? The Global Credit research team explores.
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Path • 27-Mar-2020 | |
Coronavirus: Focus shifts to the US
Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith
In this article, the GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning in light of the spreading impact of the coronavirus.
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Market Pulse • 23-Mar-2020 • 7:56 Min | |
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: Encouraging Signs Emerging From Fed & Fiscal Responses
Global Fixed Income Team
Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.
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PATH • 20-Mar-2020 | |
Coronavirus: At last - initial signs of credible action
Global Balanced Risk Control Team
In this article, the GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning in light of the spreading impact of the coronavirus.
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Market Pulse • 13-Mar-2020 | |
European Central Bank: Looking for Silver Linings in Disappointment
Global Fixed Income Team
The initial market response to the European Central Bank (ECB) meeting on March 12th was disappointment – equity prices fell while Bund yields rose, depsite the ECB actually delivered nearly everything analysts had been expecting from it.
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Market Pulse • 11-Mar-2020 | |
Energy Market Turmoil: What's Next?
Global Fixed Income Team
After what was supposed to be a coordinated supply cut by OPEC+ to balance markets and keep oil prices high, Saudi Arabia and Russia instigated an oil price war.
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Market Pulse • 11-Mar-2020 | |
Coronavirus: Positioning Portfolios for a Delayed Recovery
Global Balanced Risk Control Team
In this article, the GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning in light of the spreading impact of the coronavirus.
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Tales From the Emerging World • 10-Mar-2020 | |
Our Coronavirus Worries Are a Bit Different
Global Emerging Markets Team
Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist, offers his perspective on the burgeoning coronavirus epidemic and its potential impact on the markets.
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Market Pulse • 03-Mar-2020 | |
Emergency Fed Cut: Not a Vaccine, but a Treatment for Symptoms
Global Fixed Income Team
On March 3, the Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points (bps) to between 1-1.25%. What should fixed income investors make of this move?
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Market Pulse • 03-Mar-2020 | |
Emergency Fed Cut: Not a Vaccine, but a Treatment for Symptoms
Global Fixed Income Team
On March 3, the Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points (bps) to between 1-1.25%. What should fixed income investors make of this move?
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Market Pulse • 02-Mar-2020 | |
Update on Coronavirus and the Markets
Global Fixed Income Team
By now it’s clear the Coronavirus will have at least a short-term impact on the global economy. The question is, how do fixed income investors move forward?
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin • 29-Feb-2020 | |
It’s All About the Virus
Global Fixed Income Team
It’s now clear the coronavirus pandemic will have a meaningful impact on the global economy. As long as the virus’s impact remains disruptive rather than destructive, we should be fine, eventually.
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Market Pulse • 25-Feb-2020 | |
How to Read the Drop in U.S. Treasury Yields
Global Fixed Income Team
The U.S. 10 Year has reached historic lows. Jim Caron explores what that could say about the state of the U.S. economy.
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Market Pulse • 12-Feb-2020 | |
The Coronavirus and Its Impact on the Global Market
Global Fixed Income Team
What will be the long-term impact of the Coronavirus on the global economy? Jim Caron thinks it all depends on the shape of the eventual recovery.
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Market Pulse • 12-Jan-2020 | |
If the economy is so darn good, why are yields so darn low?
Global Fixed Income Team
Data is getting better, but bond yields are not following. What's going on here? Jim Caron explains.
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