Does recent US Federal Reserve activity hint at what lies ahead for US monetary policy?

Against an uncertain backdrop for global equities, our Real Return team discuss their favoured stock characteristics.

Our Real Return team considers the investment backdrop.

Against an uncertain and distorted backdrop, our Real Return team highlight the importance of being flexible and opportunistic.

With financial markets threatening to bounce the Fed into a fresh easing cycle, we give our perspective.

Our Real Return team considers the investment backdrop.

We consider the role of absolute-return strategies in investors' portfolios.

Modern Monetary Theory is gaining traction among policymakers, but what are the possible consequences for investors and markets?

Gold can be hard to decipher as an investment. How should you go about understanding this tricky commodity?

How an ESG approach to investment could help to protect capital and reduce risk for bond investors.

Why we continue to see potential for lower returns to combine with considerable volatility.

Our Real Return team considers the investment backdrop.

How the property market continues to dominate the cyclical ups and downs of China’s economy.

Real Return portfolio manager Andy Warwick discusses multi-asset investing and the impact of volatility.

A new ‘post-globalisation’ era may have major implications for investors.

With consumer price inflation remaining subdued despite extreme monetary policies, should investors still worry about inflation risk?

With a decade of financial excess now behind us, the risks appear skewed to the downside.

Our Real Return team considers the investment backdrop.

Trade confrontations may dominate the headlines, but deeper structural concerns are driving market movements.

We evaluate the current inflationary backdrop through the lens of our ‘fire risks’ investment theme.

Why we think this cycle has a significant chance of ending with a bang rather than a whimper.

While many argue against the current economic cycle being a rerun of the last, we beg to differ.

Have we seen an extended cyclical bull market or sustainable secular expansion?

Is it time for central banks to disregard CPI as a guide for determining monetary policy?

Trump’s promises, a questionable economic recovery and how to navigate them.

As central banks start to withdraw liquidity support, can risk assets continue their strong run?

Has a long-held central-bank assumption on what triggers inflation become obsolete?

High hopes of a President Trump-sponsored injection into global growth have taken a hit.

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election looks to have put the UK on the back foot.

Why all infrastructure investment opportunities aren’t created equal.

Strong markets and data point to confidence in economic recovery, but scratch the surface and a darker picture…

The French presidential election will provide the next opportunity to measure the progress of global populism.

Many investors appear to believe Donald Trump can deliver a Reagan-like reform agenda, but change will not be…

Why do so many investors believe Trump can transform the US economy, and are they right?

The Federal Reserve raises rates, and forecasts further increases in 2017, but is it getting carried away?

15 snapshots of our 2016 investment conference

Why ‘2’ may not hold the magical properties central bankers believe it does.

Policymakers may want to stop and check their engine rather than keep pushing on.

Despite the palliative of loose monetary policy, the challenges of the global debt burden remain.

What would a permanent return to a positive equity/bond yield gap mean for investors?

State intervention is gaining pace in the corporate sector.

Looking past the headlines at the effect of the EU referendum on equity markets.

The combination of financialisation and the numbers of displaced investors anaesthetised to risk is causing us concerns.

Japan dodges recession in Q1, but there’s still good cause for Japan’s policymakers to feel deflated.