Market insights

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Covid-19 is likely to have a considerable impact on the second half of the year. Dovish central bank policies have mitigated the pandemic’s economic fallout, but with monetary policy being so dominant, it has maintained the gap between growth in the real economy on one side and equity and bond valuations on the other.

 

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Our portfolio management teams present their outlooks for 2020.

As the majority of US banks have now published their quarterly results, we provide our view on US financial institutions in light of the latest developments in interest rates. We focus particularly on the impact on net interest income given that bank earnings heavily rely on the lending business.

While emerging market debt has always been a diverse asset class, it continues to expand its boundaries.

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The US healthcare sector’s positive earnings releases are currently overshadowed by intense political debate over the future of the entire healthcare system.