Markets

AlphaSimplex examines the impact of macro across equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.

Where the Loomis Sayles Full Discretion Team is finding favorable prices and security selection opportunities amidst heightened volatility is explored.

Despite poor quarterly returns, attractive valuations and supportive credit fundamentals could mean potentially improving relative return prospects.

What’s driving the markets, and if Big Tech can save the day or exacerbate a selloff, is analyzed.

Read our affiliate’s views at the end of the first quarter 2022.

Frank Trividic, Deputy CIO at Seeyond provides his views on the current markets.

While the road ahead may be challenging and uneven, the yield curve can be over-interpreted. Loomis Sayles Core Plus Team Member Michael Gladchun explains.

Simon Aninat, Volatility expert at Seeyond, provides insights on volatility during wartime.

What the credit cycle’s advance into late expansion phase means for fixed income investors is explained by Loomis Sayles’ Full Discretion Team.

How the tide is going out on the great wave of liquidity in the markets after the pandemic and what it means for investors in 2022 and beyond.

Rates have been rising. Can companies take the heat? Loomis takes a look at the Loan Market.

Amid unrest on multiple fronts, Loomis, Sayles & Company’s Matt Eagan, CFA® sheds light on geopolitical shifts with likely impact on investors.

Geopolitical, inflationary, and policy pressures may increase volatility in equity markets and value opportunities, says Chris Wallis, CEO, Vaughan Nelson.

Putin’s well-worn, ultranationalist, and perhaps revisionist historical perspective may, in his mind, justify the Ukraine invasion.

Portfolio strategists explain why fears about rates, energy prices, inflation and recession may be overblown.

AEW Research Director Mike Acton, CFA® discusses 4 developing US property sectors: senior housing, cold storage, medical office, lab/life science property.

The President and Congress take steps to sanction Russia and aid Ukraine financially. With no easy answers, the fallout is unknown and certainly complex.

How rising interest rates help deliver more total return to investors’ bond portfolios is explained in this bond basics video by Loomis Sayles.

Three scenarios for the Russia-Ukraine crisis and their potential ripple effects across global markets are examined.

How direct and indirect risks, sanctions, commodity prices, and investor sentiment may impact the world as Russia continues its drive is analyzed.

Emmanuel Bourdeix, Chief Executive Officer at Seeyond, shares his insights on the current risk regime in the markets.

An introduction to bank loans and their benefits: seniority, security, floating interest rates, and diversification for the short or long term.

As market volatility escalates in response to Russia’s invasion, international equity value expert David Herro of Harris Associates shares his perspectives.

Loomis, Sayles & Company’s Full Discretion Team Co-Head Matt Eagan on how easy Fed monetary policy has been, and the implications as tightening transpires.

Loomis, Sayles & Company’s Global Bond, Full Discretion, and Core Plus Bond teams provide insight on sanctions, default risks, and central bank moves.

Intraday volatility was very high in January. Simon Aninat, Volatility expert at Seeyond, discusses this event...

Loomis, Sayles & Company's Senior Sovereign Analyst, Hassan Malik, CFA®, considers the less obvious dependencies on Russia, including aluminum and titanium.

Market and macroeconomic implications of the Russia-Ukraine crisis are explored by our strategists.

Potential impact on global markets, oil prices, inflation, and other risk factors of Putin’s moves are analyzed by our market and macroeconomic experts.

As Putin invades Ukraine, our government policy expert Susan Olson outlines how Russia came to this position and the multi-faceted risks that could ensue.

Advantages of a core plus bond approach with the flexibility to pull a lot of levers and pursue yield are explained by Loomis Sayles PM Rick Raczkowski.

Fed policy moves, inflation, and security selection opportunities for active non-traditional fixed income managers are discussed by Loomis Sayles’ Matt Eagan.

Stéphanie Bigou, Global Macro Portfolio Manager at Seeyond, provides the market analysis and 2022 outlook of the management team.

Which asset classes may prevail over the new year 2022?

Loomis, Sayles & Co. Investment Director for Bank Loans Cheryl Stober summarizes expectations for a constructive 2022 with high demand and low defaults.

Varying views on a cryptocurrency correction, inflation, and the Great Resignation are shared by a panel of portfolio managers.

Loomis, Sayles & Co. Fixed Income investment experts share what they’ll be watching in 2022, from inflation to shifting China growth, and yield plays.

Simon Aninat, Volatility expert at Seeyond, provides an update on the volatility of Equities vs Govies in 2021.

Covid-driven trends, yield appeal for income investors, and infrastructure ideas are explored by AEW Capital Management’s Director of Research, Mike Acton.

Portfolio strategists offer a refreshingly different take on inflation, interest rates, valuations and the most recent comments from the Federal Reserve.

Investment trends and new market themes that appeared in 2021 are analyzed by trend-following research specialists at AlphaSimplex.

Growth, a strong US dollar, commodities, and sector rotations are explored by Vaughan Nelson CEO and Portfolio Manager in this 2022 outlook.

There’s no shortage of extravagant predictions for the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence, but what does the technology promise for our workplaces within this decade?

Growth catalysts, favorability of US equities, inflation’s path, and fixed income hurdles and highlights are explored by our investment experts.

Views on volatility, risks and trends in a Covid recovering world are shared by Alternatives, Global Bond, and Tactical Allocation Portfolio Managers.

Fixed income market action in Q3 and drivers to consider going forward are discussed by Loomis, Sayles & Co. Core Plus Bond Team’s Richard Raczkowski.

Why rising interest rates and a prolonged global recovery should propel value stocks is explained by Harris Associates PM David Herro.

Loomis Sayles PM Matt Eagan discusses the low yield environment currently challenging fixed income markets, and the benefits of an active approach.

AlphaSimplex Group’s Chief Research Strategist analyzes realized risk over recent crisis periods in global markets and considers future implications.

China’s recent blitz of regulations has triggered a cascade of knock-on effects in global markets. Bo Zhuang, Senior Sovereign Analyst at Loomis Sayles provides her insights.

A deeply held system of persistent beliefs, a rigorous investment process, and proof points of Loomis Sayles' Growth Equity alpha thesis are explained.

Bo Zhuang, Senior Sovereign Analyst at Loomis Sayles & Company provides insights on the Evergrande case.

Why investors should pause, take a breath and avoid overreacting.

Signs of a US dollar bear market, currency risk, and global yields are explored by Loomis, Sayles & Co. Portfolio Manager David Rolley.

International small and midsized companies may be offering the most attractive value today, explains Vaughan Nelson Investment Management’s Chris Wallis.

Recovery, European financials, fintech, and China regulatory crackdown are among the topics covered by CIO-International Equities at Harris Associates.

Simon Aninat, Volatility expert at Seeyond, provides an update on the volatility environment as of the end of the first half of 2021.

Experts in the Natixis Investment Managers family say the biggest risk facing investors in the second half of 2021 may be no risk at all.

Tony Coniaris talks to Natixis about value and whether he thinks it is here to stay.

Are Joe Biden’s economic policies the end of forty years of post-Reagan orthodoxy? And what could they mean for investors’ long-term strategies?

With the Creating Sustainable Value newsletter, Mirova offers you to understand the markets from a new angle and to engage in sustainable development.

New dynamics, trade, inflation, risks, and opportunities in emerging markets are explored by WCM Portfolio Manager Mike Tian and Barron’s editor Reshma Kapadia.

Sustainability of economic and market growth as the US and world reopen and big infrastructure plans are discussed by Vaughan Nelson’s Chris Wallis.

How the domination of Mega-cap stocks within indices reduce the ability to generate outperformance?

David Herro of Harris Associates discusses how the economic repercussions of Covid-19 are creating long-term growth prospects for value investors.

Learn why investing regularly, regardless of market conditions, is a strategy that can work in any market environment.

This International Women's Day, Madeline Ho and Celeste Tay, senior executives and industry pioneers, candidly discuss the experiences of women in finance. They highlight their career aspirations and challenges--and share tools for empowerment.

Our statistical analysis shows that 70% of equity investor risk appetite is defined by global growth, political risk and the FED’s monetary policies.