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Will the Magnificent 7 continue to set the pace in the market?
The Magnificent 7 are companies with a world-leading position in technologythat has enabled them to outstrip market growth, and they are leading the artificial intelligenceboom. They are Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Tesla.
Japanese companies have improved how they manage funding over the last 20 years. It shows that, in terms of ROE, Japanese companies have outstripped US and European companies in that period. This growth has been driven mainly by the modernisationof business management approaches in Japan.
Climate adaptation vs mitigation: two sides of the same coin
The effects of extreme weather events around the world are affecting key dimensions of human life and business operations. We talk a lot about mitigation. However, the missing link on the road to carbon neutrality is adaptation. Adaptation is complementary to mitigation and just as essential.
Market Outlook 2024 | Extending the investment horizon
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Emerging Markets Debt: an alternative to diversify portfolios
Emerging markets debt and, more specifically, that issued in local currency has outperformed global and developed market fixed-income over the last 18 months.
Nearshoring: An opportunity for Latin America
Nearshoring is defined as the outsourcing strategy under which a company transfers part of its production to third parties in other countries that are nearby and in a similar time zone.
Articles & Perspectives
Market Outlook Q4 2023 | Difficult balance between growth and inflation
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It seeks to understand how living organisms have developed through evolutionary processes to survive and endure. Many companies are realising the potential financial benefits of preserving natural ecosystems and are joining existing efforts to protect and conserve the environment.
Fixed-income: Time to add duration to portfolios
Positive real long-term interest rates, expectations of future cuts in benchmark rates, and fixed-income's diversification effect make this a good time to think about adding duration to portfolios.
Digital Health - What it means
Digital health pursues efficiency in the healthcare system to provide appropriate high-quality care to a growing global population.
A new yield environment for short-term fixed-income
The combined increase in yields from the government debt curve and the credit risk premium creates a favourableenvironment for investing in low-risk fixed-income strategies: short-term high-credit quality.
Why is Artificial Intelligence important?
Artificial Intelligence is already a reality that is making people's daily lives easier, through such applications as speech recognition and automatic translation systems.
2023: the year of consumer spending in China
The re-opening of the Chinese economy boosts consumer spending. Higher savings in 2022 are the main driver. According to McKinsey, the propensity to save was at its highest since 2014.
Biodiversity: What it is and why it is important
Biodiversity is the second-most effective way of mitigating climate change, after fossil fuel replacement. Human activity has seriously altered 75% of the planet's land surface and 66% of the marine ecosystem2.
Market Views
Market Outlook Q3 2023 | Pause in sight but longer adjustment
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Market Outlook 2023: The great interest rate reset
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