Newsroom

London, UK, 2 December 2019

Quantitative Easing has destabilised the finances of pension plans and heightened the role of liquidity management

As quantitative easing reaches a point of diminishing returns, capital conservation and liquidity management have become paramount for Europe’s pension plans Pension plans favour defe [...]

London, UK, 5 March 2019

Cross Asset - March 2019 - Investment Strategy

Licence for value hunting If an investor had woken up today after three months and looked at the markets, he/she could reasonably say that not much had changed. The year started on str [...]

United Kingdom, 7 February 2019

Investment Talks - China more appealing based on progress in trade negotiations

Chinese New Year brings some hopes on the trade front, as some details are emerging on progress with the negotiations. We expect some sort of conditional deal to be reached; however, un [...]

United Kingdom, 4 February 2019

Cross Asset - February 2019 - Investment Strategy

After a tough December, which led to an abrupt valuation reset, risk assets rebounded in the first weeks of the year, boosted by a market-sympathetic turn in Fed rhetoric and an increas [...]

United Kingdom, 17 January 2019

Investment Talks - Brexit deal voted down: what happens now?

Developments and scenarios ahead: The Brexit deal’s defeat in Parliament was expected, but the size of the loss was not – the result of 432 votes against versus 202 for was quite a [...]

United Kingdom, 8 January 2019

Investment Talks - Brexit muddle-through towards the approaching the parliamentary vote

Developments and scenarios ahead: The Brexit-related newsflow since the UK/EU agreement on 25 November 2018 has been quite intense. In our view, it has slightly increased the probabilit [...]

United Kingdom, 7 January 2019

Global Investment Views - January 2019

Focus on fundamentals to ride turbulent markets Investors are facing an unsettled environment. For 2019 we think it will be key to look at three areas:   From economic deceleration to [...]

United Kingdom, 31 December 2018

Investment Talks - The investment perspective on December Fed’s Dovish Rate Hike

In what was one of the more highly anticipated Federal Reserve decisions of the past few years, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in December voted unanimously to raise rates by [...]

United Kingdom, 31 December 2018

Investment Talks - Central banks in focus: assessing the path ahead for the Fed US

US economy: We expect the US economy to grow above potential in 2019 and to gradually converge to its long-term growth rate of around 2% in 2020 as the boost provided by fiscal expansio [...]

United Kingdom, 17 December 2018

Amundi Cross Asset - Investment Strategy - December 2018

Strategies for tough markets This year has proven to be challenging for portfolio construction, as well as regarding returns. To put this into perspective, for 2009-17, our analysis sh [...]

United Kingdom, 3 December 2018

Investment Talks - From G20: short-term relief, but it is not the final word on trade disputes

The latest G20 demonstrates some temporary progress in the US/China relationship. An increase of tariff rates in January 2019 was put on hold and the possibility for an additional tranc [...]

United Kingdom, 3 December 2018

European pension plans embracing innovation to tackle new era of low-return, high volatility

Europe’s pension plans are moving away from a formulaic investment approach to find good returns , as booming markets are now history Increasing allocations to alternative investments, [...]

United Kingdom, 27 November 2018

Investment Talks - Brexit: Where do we stand and what should investors expect?

Where we stand and possible scenarios ahead: After the EU approval of Brexit deal, we are going to pass through some tough times until the UK parliamentary vote on Brexit Withdrawal Agr [...]

United Kingdom, 12 October 2018

Investment Talks - Late cycle features at play: more pain, but not the end of the game

Market sell-off: a late cycle feature where uncertainty due to tariffs, rates and oil prices are sending some red signals. Autumn comes with a change of mood in the market triggered by [...]

United Kingdom, 2 October 2018

Investment Talks - Italian budget proposal under scrutiny

The key points of the budget law. The Italian Government negatively surprised the markets by announcing a substantially increased budget deficit target for 2019-2021 to 2.4% in a move t [...]

United Kingdom, 16 August 2018

Investment Talks - Turkey shakes summer thin markets, but contagion risk is contained

United Kingdom, 4 July 2018

Investment Talks - Protectionism intensifies: country and sector selection to mitigate its effects

KEY INSIGHTS: Our view: As a base case, we expect limited tariffs will be implemented on different fronts with relatively controlled macro impacts while talks continue. Although talks [...]