Warren Stoddart joins Chas Burkhart on the Global Investment Leaders podcast
September 22, 2022 | Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group
Warren Stoddart, CC&L Financial Group’s President and CEO recently joined Rosemont CEO Chas Burkhart as a guest on the Global Investment Leaders podcast.
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ESG Themes for 2023
February 2, 2023 | Global Alpha Capital Management
For this week’s commentary, we take a look at green CAPEX, including benefits and relevance.
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Echoes of 2008 in UK monetary / labour market data
February 1, 2023 | NS Partners
The consensus is gloomy about UK economic prospects but is it gloomy enough? The current debate has echoes of mid-2008.
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Eurozone money trends still weakening
January 27, 2023 | NS Partners
Eurozone flash PMIs this week were less bad than expected, bolstering a growing consensus that economic prospects are improving. Monetary trends continue to argue the opposite.
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Forecast – 2023
January 23, 2023 | CC&L Investment Management
This year’s Forecast looks at the secular themes that underpin our outlook, and then considers the shorter-term cyclical factors influencing the outlook for the economy, inflation, and monetary policy. We examine market valuations and taking into account all these factors, we set the framework for our portfolio strategy. Throughout the next year, updates to our Forecast will be highlighted in our monthly newsletter – Outlook.
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Credit where credit’s due
January 20, 2023 | Vergent Asset Management
Poor access to credit continues to be a major growth inhibitor for many developing markets. We explore how platform businesses are attempting to bridge the funding gap through the digitalisation of financial services. We present kaspi.kz an illustration of a platform centred on consumer credit, that is driving both societal change and attractive returns for shareholders.
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Money trends suggesting modest Chinese reopening boost
January 20, 2023 | NS Partners
A post in October gave a hopeful view of Chinese prospects, noting that “excess” money had accumulated and could flow into equities and the economy if policy-makers signalled a commitment to expansion.
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What’s the deal with EM small cap
January 19, 2023 | Global Alpha Capital Management
We shine a light on emerging market small caps, looking at the characteristics and make up of this often misunderstood asset class.
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Emerging Markets Cool into Year-end
January 13, 2023 | NS Partners
In a soft month for EM equities, we review 2022’s winners and losers along with some key investment themes.
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A “monetarist” perspective on current equity markets
January 13, 2023 | NS Partners
High inflation resulted in poor equity market performance in 2022 despite economic / earnings growth. Inflation relief in 2023 may limit further market weakness despite a global recession.
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Drilling into European oil & gas
January 12, 2023 | Global Alpha Capital Management
We examine what happened in the European energy sector in 2022 and look ahead to 2023.
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2022 Year in Review – Fallout from risk desensitization
January 12, 2023 | Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group
The market turbulence experienced over the last several years culminated with a major downturn for both public equities and fixed income in 2022. However, the journey along the way did provide useful insights and lessons, particularly from the experiences during the height of the pandemic in 2020. This article considers the extent to which investors heeded the warning signs, or whether they were desensitized to the ensuing risks.
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BoE policy overkill at least as extreme as Fed / ECB
January 4, 2023 | NS Partners
Recent Bank of England signals have been deemed to be less hawkish than those of the Fed and ECB, contributing to a view that UK policy tightening is less likely to prove excessive, in the sense of causing greater economic damage than necessary to return inflation to target.
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Global Small Cap Strategy Quarterly Commentary – USD
December 31, 2022 | Global Alpha Capital Management
We are now done with the third year of this decade and the differences with the past decade could not be more acute. Inflation seemed like a permanently solved issue in the 2010s, geopolitical conflicts were mild in comparison and many other things taken for granted 10 years ago no longer apply now. Through this […]
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Global Small Cap Strategy Quarterly Commentary – CAD
December 31, 2022 | Global Alpha Capital Management
We are now done with the third year of this decade and the differences with the past decade could not be more acute. Inflation seemed like a permanently solved issue in the 2010s, geopolitical conflicts were mild in comparison and many other things taken for granted 10 years ago no longer apply now. Through this […]
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