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Quilter Cheviot: How are company earnings holding up in the pandemic?
Following on from the success of our Breaking down Brexit podcast, we have updated the Weekly Comment to include a podcast from our Research team on what they are looking at in markets. The Markets Uncut podcast will discuss topical issues for the global economy, featuring expert speakers based on the news stories of the day.
Square Mile Research: Talking At Home With: David Roberts
Our new Talking At Home With interviews bring you news and views from some of the industrys leading figures on how they are coping with the coronavirus lockdown. Read the first in the series with David Roberts, Head of Fixed Income at Liontrust.
Columbia Threadneedle: Coronavirus sparks a social shift in the bond market
The coronavirus is a social issue that has brought unprecedented disruption to societies and is impacting the wellbeing of the worlds population.
Invescos views on COVID-19
Over the past few months investors have been rocked by coronavirus fears, leading to one of the most turbulent times in financial market history. Read the latest thoughts of our investment experts articles added frequently
Invesco: Sterling corporate bond exposure for the ESG conscious
For fixed income investors who want their investments aligned with their views on ESG, ETF opportunities have up until now been lacking.
AXA Investment Managers: COVID-19 Impact on UK Equities
During the latest webinar, Chris St John and Dan Harlow discussed what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their portfolios and the wider market, and what they believe this could mean for UK equities.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: March madness
Markets are jig-jagging like a frightened hare as wholesale lockdowns and extraordinary stimulus have streaked across the globe. Our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth reports on the month.
Aviva Investors: The impact of COVID-19 on UK infrastructure
As well as its profound human impact, COVID-19 is having a marked effect on asset prices and transaction activity in all areas of financial markets.
Square Mile Research: Talking With Chris St John
Talking the thrill of the chase, ESG integration and exploding rocks with Chris St John, Fund Manager, AXA Investment Managers and Square Miles, Richard Romer-Lee.
Quilter Cheviot: MPS monthly newsletter
There has been a lot to discuss since the last MPS newsletter on 16 March. To recap some of the more notable news, the UK went into lockdown on 23 March to attempt to slow the spread of Covid-19, with police given powers to fine and arrest those that do not comply with the quarantine measures. The following day a temporary hospital in east London NHS Nightingale was announced, and opened within two weeks. In the interim, it was announced that Boris Johnson had tested positive for the virus and by early April he had been hospitalised. At the time of writing, the number of recorded deaths in the UK exceeds 12,000, although government ministers have acknowledged that the eventual figure is likely to be considerably higher than that.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments: UK real estate: a consistent approach to weather uncertain times
Real estate is not immune from the forces affecting the global economy; however, our market is well placed to weather the storm. We expect potentially significant variations in sector performance, in part accelerating trends already apparent prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AXA Investment Managers: Iggos Insight Debt Counselling
Many of us are wondering how we will deal with the big rise in government debt going forward. Will it mean higher taxes? Will inflation or debt relief be realistic options?
AXA Investment Managers: COVID-19 Impact: AXA IM's weekly macroeconomic and investment strategy update
View a summary and watch a replay of our latest weekly macroeconomic and investment strategy update webcast on the impact of COVID-19.
Square Mile: Have markets got ahead of themselves?
Are the recent market rallies in the US and, to a lesser extent, in the UK sustainable or just a moment of temporary respite? Read the latest thoughts from Jason Broomer, Square Miles Investment Director.
Aviva Investors: The impact of COVID-19 on private debt
As COVID-19 sweeps across the world, a contraction in global growth is causing an adverse short-term reaction to the economy and financial markets. While the extent of contagion from public markets to private debt remains unclear, transactions with strong downside protection should remain more resilient through the crisis, explains Nikhil Chandra.
Columbia Threadneedle: Market updates: uk equities, european equities, fixed income and multi-asset
The best time to invest can be when it feels most uncomfortable Sharp market moves like we have been seeing trigger forced sellers and liquidations - only serving to exacerbate near-term selling.
Quilter Cheviot: MPS performance update: march 2020
Fears over the coronavirus have gripped markets in recent weeks, with the second week of March delivering a series of almost unprecedented headlines. A fall of over 10% in one day for the FTSE 100 (its worst since 1987), similar drops across European stock markets, and the fastest ever move into bear market territory by US stocks were just some of the news stories from the week, despite a wide array of measures announced by central banks.
Aviva Investors: COVID-19: When it comes to pandemics, investors should listen to the real experts
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.
AXA Investment Managers: Is a vaccine for coronavirus on its way, and what are the challenges?
Peter Hughes, PhD, Fund Manager, Healthcare Strategies at AXA IM, gives his view on the current trials to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and what the challenges and next steps might be.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments: Tackling the unknown unknown: how active managers manage unforeseen risks
Reports that say that something hasnt happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
Aviva Investors: Is COVID-19 a black swan or a grey rhino?
The devastating coronavirus outbreak has prompted renewed discussion of black swans: rare, unexpected events that wreak havoc on markets and economies.
Aberdeen Standard Investments: Emerging markets in the time of novel coronavirus
When COVID-19 (coronavirus) first made headlines, in China, then worldwide, global market reactions were complacent. It was perceived as a primarily Chinese issue, reminiscent of the SARS outbreak of the early 2000s. Expectations were for a brief selloff, which would last only until the number of new cases retreated.
M&G: Upcoming webcasts
M&G host monthly webcasts allowing you to access in-depth fund and macroeconomic updates straight from the investment floor, as well as an opportunity for your questions to be answered by our presenters.
Rathbones: Webcast invitation - live at 10:00am, with David Coombs, on Wednesday 1 April
In light of continued volatility across most asset classes David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments will outline his current approach to protecting the portfolios but also explain his strategy for the recovery.
Aviva Investors: Three trends to watch in UK long-income real estate
In an era of low interest rates and rising maintenance costs, the benefits of long-income assets within UK real-estate portfolios are hard to ignore. Tim Perry looks at three key trends that are influencing the UK long-income market.
Quilter Cheviot: Are companies cutting their dividends?
With a recession expected in the US and Europe, many investors are now questioning what will happen to company dividend payments, which some may rely upon to provide an income.
Quilter Cheviot: Diary of a fund manager - always questions
In this weeks Diary, news from financial markets and investors, an update from India in lockdown and guidance on home haircutting.
M&G: Upcoming webcasts
M&G host monthly webcasts allowing you to access in-depth fund and macroeconomic updates straight from the investment floor, as well as an opportunity for your questions to be answered by our presenters.
Square Mile Research: Talking With: Hector Kilpatrick
Talking contrarian instinct, promoting positive change and contemporary reading with Hector Kilpatrick, Chief Investment Officer, Cornelian Asset Managers and Richard Romer-Lee, Square Mile.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments: European equities: Coronavirus market volatility - performance update
Markets are very weak and volatile, as you would expect with such uncertainty around the Covid-19 outbreak.
Aviva Investors: When in doubt, do nothing
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient Warren Buffett
Prudential: Taking stock of the Coronavirus correction
The end of February saw one of the most rapid market corrections in history as investors confronted the building evidence that the outbreak of the 2019 strain of coronavirus, dubbed Covid-19, had not been contained within China and could become a more global pandemic.
FundsNetwork: Coronavirus and your clients' investments
With COVID-19 impacting global markets, your clients may be concerned about their investments. FundsNetwork's hub brings together latest insights from several fund partners, to help you give your clients greater reassurance.
Aberdeen Standard Investments: Coronavirus where from here?
Coronavirus - where have we got to, and how do we see the economic and market landscape from here? After a turbulent few weeks in markets, Richard Dunbar talks to Katy Forbes, Head of Absolute Return in our Multi-Asset Team and Jeremy Lawson, our Chief Economist and Head of the ASI Research Institute.
M&G: This time is different: a stay at home Flash Crash t-shaped recession
Whenever there is the threat or the reality of recession, it usually follows a typical pattern. It is engendered by tight financial conditions, a real or market bubble bursting, a dramatic rise in the price of oil, or a combination of the above. This time it is different: a stay at home recession.
FundsNetwork: Budget 2020: Paul Kennedys response to legislation changes and future consultations
FundsNetworks tax expert Paul Kennedy takes a look at the latest Chancellor's Budget announcement.
FundsNetwork: Managing client expectations in volatile markets
News of the coronavirus in recent weeks has contributed to increased market volatility. If your clients are concerned, why not make use of FundsNetwork online hub? Here youll find useful insights from several fund partners, including a range of guides from M&G, to help you give your clients greater confidence.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments: International Womens Day special podcast
In this special edition from the team behind Eye of the Needle, were talking to Maya Bhandari, Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager, and Tammie Tang, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. They tell us about their routes into asset management and their respective asset classes, how the industry has changed over the past decade, and offer advice to women aspiring to work in finance.
Update on market volatility: Covid-19 remains key│Rathbones
A plunge in oil prices has sent markets reeling, but the epidemic is still the main concern.
Aviva Investors: Are investors too complacent about the coronavirus?
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.