Latest multi-asset & multi-strategy thinking

  • COVID-19: This time is different?

    3 Apr 2020

    While the COVID-19 pandemic may be unlike anything financial markets have experienced before, the past still offers valuable lessons for investors trying to make sense of the crisis, explains Euan Munro.

  • COVID-19 and a brief history of emerging market debt drawdowns

    2 Apr 2020

    The scale and speed of COVID-19’s impact on global financial markets has caused emerging market debt returns to decline at a pace not seen since the global financial crisis. However, history suggests the recovery of the asset class may also turn out to be quick.

  • COVID-19: When it comes to pandemics, investors should listen to the real experts

    1 Apr 2020

    In early February, with financial markets oblivious to medical experts’ warnings about the dangers posed by the coronavirus, Ian Pizer of Aviva Investors’ investment strategy team began to look into the medical research to learn more about the potential outcomes and the implications for the global economy and markets. What he discovered raises questions about financial market participants’ ability to react to issues they don’t fully understand.

  • Treasuries: Defence in troubled times

    26 Mar 2020

    Correlation patterns between assets have not been behaving conventionally over the last month. Most notably, there have been periods when US Treasury yields have been rising (and their value falling) at the same time as equities have been selling off. Why have investors been abandoning safe-haven assets in the midst of the steepest market falls we have seen for 40 years?

  • RPI may be flawed, but changes shouldn’t cost pensioners and investors

    16 Mar 2020

    With the start of the consultation for proposed changes to the measurement of inflation in the UK, we look at the likely impact to asset classes, the assets most affected, and the key issues investors should be aware of.

  • Are investors too complacent about the coronavirus?

    21 Feb 2020

    In the latest of our editorial series, Link, AIQ brings members of Aviva Investors’ investment strategy, equity and debt teams together to discuss the prospects for financial markets and the world economy in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.

  • Multi-asset allocation views: Uncertainty clouds the outlook for European assets

    23 Jan 2020

    Sunil Krishnan considers whether Europe can break out of its economic malaise and the factors investors should watch out for in 2020.

  • Multi-asset allocation views: The pros and cons of higher-yielding fixed income

    16 Jan 2020

    Sunil Krishnan asks whether higher-yielding fixed income assets remain good diversifiers for multi-asset portfolios in the current environment.

  • Multi-asset allocation views: Could Japan outperform other equity markets?

    14 Jan 2020

    Sunil Krishnan argues that low expectations among domestic and global investors are reflected in Japanese equity valuations, creating an opportunity for the asset class to play catch-up with the rest of the world.

  • Supply chain wars

    14 Nov 2019

    With the US and China locking horns, we take a deeper look at the tangled and complex web of multinational relationships in the global economic ecosystem.

  • In search of a free lunch

    5 Nov 2019

    Correlations between groups of assets and within individual asset classes have changed in unexpected ways thanks to a decade of easy monetary policy. Our portfolio managers tell us what impact this has had on the way they manage money.

  • Mind over matter: How we react to an inverted yield curve is more important than the inversion itself

    30 Sep 2019

    Determining whether an inverted yield curve signals a US or global recession continues to focus the minds of investors in 2019. Mark Robertson explains why our actions will matter more in determining whether a recession is on the horizon than a misleading indicator.

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