Viewpoints about International
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Q4 2020 Market Intelligence
Market Intelligence: quarterly updates that measure key investment markets — including Canadian equities, U.S. equities, international equities, and fixed income — for Canadian investors.
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Global Macro Outlook—Navigating a slowing recovery
Uncertainty returns as the recovery stalls and geopolitical tensions rise. Our macroeconomic strategy team examines themes that could influence the markets in the coming months.
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Thematic investing believes in the future
Understanding what the future may hold and the financial benefits that could come with it takes more than hope and guessing. It requires research and data that reveal where money is moving, as well as looking at companies’ connections to megatrends — long-term, global, influential trends.
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Global Macro Outlook—navigating COVID-19
Our macroeconomic strategy team examines whether the actions taken by policymakers worldwide could steer the global economy toward recovery.
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Strengths and weaknesses across emerging markets: COVID-19’s uneven impact
The coronavirus outbreak has changed the outlook of the global economy. But its impact on individual countries—particularly in emerging markets—will be uneven.
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U.S. core value equity team—market update
Sometimes, not reacting — or over-reacting as the case may be — is the hardest thing to do and we as a team have remained disciplined.
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Bear markets
Whether we’ll enter a global recession is not a question of if, but how long and how severe? So, where do we go from here?
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It’s all relative
Over the past year, the Capital Markets Strategy team has favoured a more defensive posture by allocating to high yield as an equity proxy with better downside protection. This has played out well, especially considering recent events.
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2020, so far
The COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak is having near-term economic consequences as investors are pricing in the risk of the infection continuing around the world, for the time being. Where does this leave us and how can investors weather the turmoil?
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When a black swan runs into an oil spill
The Capital Markets Strategy team’s views on Canada and the risks to the Canadian economy, equity market, Bank of Canada policy, and the loonie.
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