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The death of The Queen, Asset managers join the mourning, Franklin Templeton’s Metaverse, Crypto investments out of spotlight, The futurists, ECB’s woes, Property crash and much more.
As policy and liquidity tensions build, there is a growing threat they will disrupt the apparent calm in stock markets, according to T. Rowe Price.
Targeting institutional, high net worth and corporate investors, CSOP Asset Management has listed the Hong Kong Dollar Money Market ETF on the Hong Kong bourse.
The US Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates one or two times this year, according to Garth Taljard, the firm’s head of multi-asset products for Asia.
Investor fear is out of whack with actual economic fundamentals and a sustainable rebound won’t happen until one of three broad shifts occurs, argues Christophe Donay, head of asset allocation and macro research at Pictet Wealth Management.
Japan’s surprise move to negative interest rates on Friday is both a “welcome boost” for investor confidence, and in another sense, a failure of policy, sources said.
In view of the US rate hike that didn’t happen, Sonja Laud, head of multi-asset income at Baring AM, made some recent tactical allocations.
The Federal Reserve’s positive outlook for the US economy and for the unemployment rate suggests an interest rate hike is still highly possible this year, according to several fund managers.
Nearly 31% of the surveyed respondents said they are likely to invest in China equities if interest rates are reduced further this year.
Emerging market assets will likely face rising volatility and capital outflows as the US Federal Reserve begins tightening interest rates, according to JP Morgan Asset Management.
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