22/01/2024 Geopolitics in an election-heavy year Amid a geopolitical realignment of global and regional economic powers, the current year would see national elections in many large countries.
15/01/2024 Jobs and inflation on market’s radar Amid a large consensus that the rate hike cycle has ended, markets are now trying to assess the timing of the next rate cuts. Together with inflation...
22/12/2023 Investment Views Global Investment Views - January 2024 Bonds and EM stand out in the Santa Rally.
20/12/2023 Podcasts Outerblue Convictions – Global Investment Views: What stands... In our last Convictions podcast of the year, Swaha Pattanaik and Monica Defend, Head of Amundi Investment Institute, sat down last week to discuss whether...
20/12/2023 Portfolio Strategy Bond Portfolio Optimisation and Mixed Integer Programming In this paper, we apply mixed-integer optimization in corporate/government bond portfolios.
18/12/2023 Economy & Markets ECB on hold supportive for Euro credit markets and govies Understanding the outcome of the latest ECB and BoE meetings, and their impact on markets.
18/12/2023 Fed and ECB: towards rate cuts in 2024 The Fed was clearly dovish, judging from its statement, revised projections and press conference. The ECB committee was more prudent, yet still paving...
15/12/2023 Economy & Markets Dovish Fed contemplates rate cuts: risks to weaker US growth... Markets reacted positively to the Federal Reserve's December policy meeting, but investors should be cautious as risks to weaker US growth persist.
11/12/2023 Emerging Markets Emerging Markets Outlook 2024 charts and views: Opportunitie... Outlook for EM assets: opportunities and risks for EM investors in 2024.
4/12/2023 A November to remember November has been an exceptional month with global 50% bonds and 50% equity allocation posting the second highest monthly performance in 30 years, just...
30/11/2023 Investment Views Global Investment Views - December 2023 Receding inflation good news but inflation fight not over
27/11/2023 Recent economic data confirms our outlook Last week business surveys in the Eurozone and macroeconomic data in the US (durable good orders) confirm our soft global economic outlook for 2023. In...
20/11/2023 Asia in focus after the Biden–Xi summit "Global economic competition is reshaping supply chains and some emerging markets, in particular in Asia, may shine".
14/11/2023 Economy & Markets Central banks’ unwinding will put more public debt in market... Investors should prepare for a new quantitative tightening paradigm, as major central banks have started unwinding their large balance sheets.
13/11/2023 Capital Market Assumptions Asset Class Returns Forecasts - Q4 2023 Quartely update of the expected returns across asset classes with a 5 and 10 year horizon.
