State Street Investment Management
Institutional Capital Is Still Risk-On—But Quietly Rotating
State Street’s global investor study shows that large institutions are not de-risking outright, but they are becoming far more selective in where that risk sits.
Equity allocations remain near decade highs, but positioning is s...
2026-04-08
2026-04-08
NatWest Group
The Global Economy Is Slowing Into Something That Looks Like Stagflation
NatWest’s latest “Rising Growth Risks” note reads less like a warning and more like an early diagnosis: the global economy is entering a phase where growth weakens, but inflation refuses to follow.
UK businesses are alre...
2026-04-08
Amundi Asset Managers
Markets Are No Longer Ignoring Geopolitics—They’re Repricing It
Amundi’s latest weekly note suggests 2026 has shifted into a regime of what they call “controlled disorder,” where geopolitics is no longer background noise but an active market driver.
The report highlights how the Midd...
2026-04-07
Franklin Templeton Investments
South Korea Still Looks Strong—But the Easy Part of the Trade May Be Over
Templeton’s April emerging markets note suggests South Korea remains one of the cleaner AI and policy-linked stories in Asia, though investors are now shifting from chasing upside to testing durability.
Templeton says investor engag...
2026-04-07
Allianz Global Investors
The AI Boom Is Starting to Look More Like an Income Filter Than a Growth Story
The featured repot argues that the AI trade is entering a harsher phase, where monetisation and cash generation matter more than narrative and capex bravado.
Allianz notes that the market is moving away from AI as a pure storytelling trad...
2026-04-07
Nuveen
Casting a wider net: Can investors branch out when so much is priced in?
This outlook makes a simple argument: much of the good news is already priced in, so investors need to widen the field rather than keep piling into the same themes.
Nuveen says many markets still look broadly constructive, but with t...
2026-04-07
Northern Trust
The Iran War Is Becoming a Budget Shock—Not Just an Oil Shock
The feautered weekly commentary argues that the war’s financial consequences are now spreading well beyond energy prices and into the fiscal architecture of both combatants and bystanders.
Northern Trust estimates the war has alread...
2026-04-03
Robeco
Equities Turn More Fragile as the Energy Shock Spreads
Long-term equity themes remain intact, while the Middle East shock has materially worsened the near-term risk backdrop.
Robeco warns that the closure of key energy routes and rising pressure in oil, LNG, fertilizer, grains, and alumi...
2026-04-03
ING Bank
Belgium’s Inflation Looks Calm—But the Real Shock May Still Be Ahead
ING’s Philippe Ledent argues that Belgium’s modest March inflation print masks a much sharper inflation impulse that is likely to emerge in the coming months.
Headline inflation rose only from 1.4% to 1.6% in March, but I...
2026-04-03
Janus Henderson
“Guns & Butter” May Be Back—and Inflation Could Be the Price
The featured report argues that the current U.S. mix of tax cuts, rising defence spending, and resilient labour markets increasingly resembles the inflationary “Guns & Butter” era of the 1960s.
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