Sino-pessimism is easy to find these days, perhaps with good reason. China spent 2021 cracking down on its most lucrative businesses, shuttering entire for-profit sectors, seeing several large property companies teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, suffer energy shortages, constrain the economy under an ongoing zero-Covid policy.

As we contemplate fixed income markets in 2021 and what is in store for 2022, it seems clear an inflection point is upon us. We have spent a large amount of the past few commentaries discussing inflation and the implications …

US equities were higher in 2021 with the S&P 500 up for a third straight year. There were a number of big themes in focus during the year. Covid vaccinations formed a key piece of the bullish narrative, particularly over the first several months of the year.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has been one of, if not the most topical strategies in the financial markets this year. While various forms of responsible investment have been utilized by asset managers for almost four decades …

As we enter the home stretch of 2021, we are struck by the notion that economic conditions might actually make fixed income interesting again! Coming from a market practitioner, this sentiment is a bit tongue-in-cheek …

View PDF | Print VersionOver the past decade, our research has taken multiple in-depth looks at the exogenous drivers of what we think of as “alpha availability” among active managers. Our original work focused on smaller AUM managers’ ability to deliver relatively...