All articles by David Turner
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Special ReportUK: After the deluge
Investors are still wary about where the UK’s economy might be heading despite the country’s trade deal with the EU
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FeaturesSelectivity is key in SPAC market
The vogue for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) has something in common with many other fashions, whether in investment or in the shops. Just when you think the trend cannot get even hotter, the temperature rises yet further.
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FeaturesBriefing: Active ways to prosper in EMs
On the battlefield on which active managers fought their passive enemies for investors’ custom, there was one patch of higher ground that seemed easier to defend – emerging market equities.
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Special Report2021 Investment Horizons: Hazy outlook for hedging
Investors must be cautious when navigating today’s cloudy inflation landscape
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FeaturesBriefing: Which way will inflation blow?
Investors pondering the future course of inflation are scratching their heads – faced as they are with a powerful array of deflationary factors, opposed by a potent lineup of inflationary factors.
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FeaturesBriefing: Hybrids come into their own
Back in the days when sailors relied on sails, they used to dread the doldrums – that zone near the equator where trade winds converge, generating windless weather.
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Special Report
Risk-free rates: Forging ahead
UK funds have largely ditched LIBOR but the situation for credit funds is more complex
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FeaturesChina: On a long climb up the ESG ladder
China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, compels imprisoned Muslims in Xinjiang to toil in factories, and has Communist Party committees embedded in companies, exercising a shadowy influence over management. It is, in other words, not exactly a poster child for good ESG performance.
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Special ReportUS recession: Slow and steady
Undramatic growth has characterised the longest economic expansion in US history. As trade tensions rise can the momentum be sustained?
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FeaturesBriefing: There is still room for growth
Equity investors putting faith in growth stocks – stocks that are priced expensively relative to fundamentals because they are expected to grow fast – received a shock in early September when they sold off sharply.
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FeaturesBriefing: Draghi’s parting gift on ECB stance
If anyone in Europe was left in any doubt on 11 September about the dovishness of the European Central Bank (ECB) under Mario Draghi’s leadership, by close of business on the next day their doubts were surely dispelled. On that day the outgoing president of the ECB unleashed a bout of monetary easing, in an attempt to boost euro-zone inflation from 1% to its target of “below, but close to, 2% over the medium term”.
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Special Report
Technology: Disparities impede EU progress
The EU is not achieving its true potential on the global technology stage because it is still not operating as a fully fledged single market
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Special ReportEuropean benchmarks: Meet Sonia, €STR and Saron
European interest rate benchmarks reform will bring new challenges for asset managers and investors
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Special ReportApplying rocket science to EMs
Factor investing strategies are increasingly being used in emerging market investing
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Special ReportSterling scenarios
Sterling will remain mired in uncertainty as long as the conflict over Brexit is unresolved
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Special Report
Fixed income: Will it be E, S or G?
The three components of ESG investing in fixed income – environmental, social and governance – cannot be maximised simultaneously. Investors must decide which to emphasise
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Special Report
Sterling: Two sides of the coin
Many analysts see sterling as undervalued but investors expect a premium to compensate for Brexit uncertainties
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Asset Class Reports
Interest Rates: Opinion divided on rate impact
Market professionals are divided on the likely impact of rate rises on the equity markets
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Features
Financial Crises: Awaiting the Minsky moment
The bout of marked market volatility in February prompted a heated debate: were financial markets close to a Minsky moment?
