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Inflation remains the headline act in global markets, but the heat doesn’t stop there. Earnings season is setting the stage for fresh surprises, Korean equities are testing the durability of the emerging markets rally as leveraged ETF dynamics unwind, and AI driven capex is rippling through credit markets. Meanwhile, the VIX…

Despite trebling in size since 2020, fixed income ETF (exchange-traded fund) assets remain under-bought in Europe. Luca Pagni, Head of Fixed Income ETFs, tells Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, that there is still great growth potential for bond ETFs – for a variety of reasons. They can improve portfolio construction…

Cathy Clay, CEO of S&P Dow Jones Indices, and Lynn Martin, President of the NYSE Group, recently met on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange to discuss how the S&P 500 connects America’s past, present and future.

Although inflation risks have moderated, they have not disappeared. Central banks around the globe are increasingly debating rate hikes. The Fed is expected to remain on hold, but policy risks remain skewed toward hawkish outcomes.

The discussion continues with a closer look at how ruptures will impact expected returns across fixed income, equities, credit, gold and private assets.

This podcast examines what a wave of large IPOs means for capital allocation and cost of capital, and then turns to the harder question: when underexposure to AI and overconcentration in AI are both genuine risks, how do you decide which one to live with?

In this episode, Jeff Mo, U.S. mid-cap portfolio manager, explores a fundamental shift in how economies may grow over the next decade.

Bond markets have been transformed by a generational reset in yields, creating a very different backdrop for investors than just a few years ago.

In this episode of Unearthed, hosts Joe Cavatoni and John Reade sit down with Rebecca Patterson, globally respected macroeconomic investor, Vanguard board member, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to unpack the fast-moving and increasingly complex global economic landscape.

Catherine Yoshimoto, director of product management at FTSE Russell, recently joined the Index Ideas podcast to talk about an expansion of the Russell Indexes framework to cover global equity markets.

What innovative strategies are market participants increasingly exploring to measure growth? S&P DJI’s Jason Ye sits down with Andrew Geoghegan from ausbiz to discuss how GARP, or growth at a reasonable price, is an approach that is gaining traction in the Australian market.

Nine-tenths of the money in daily circulation has been created by commercial banks. In this week’s episode Tim Phillips talks to Stephen Cecchetti (Brandeis University, CEPR) about what happens when new forms of digital money test that architecture.

In this episode, portfolio manager Steven Visscher covers how Mawer's balanced portfolios navigated 2025 and how they are positioned in 2026. With a war-driven energy shock on one side and an AI investment boom on the other, the market is pulling in two directions at once. Steven walks through what that means for asset…

Rob Arnott, Founder & Chair of Research Affiliates, discusses where AI works well and can assist across the money management ecosystem, the risk of ‘AI hallucination’ & over-reliance, quant vs human judgement, and the future of work.

European equities have attracted growing inflows in recent quarters, as investors gravitate toward a region offering low valuations and strengthening economic momentum. In this interview with Asset TV, Jason Chen, Senior Portfolio Strategist at DWS Investment Management Americas, examines the key drivers behind that shift…

In this episode of Unearthed, hosts John Reade and Joe Cavatoni discuss recent gold demand trends.

The geopolitical pressures forcing Europe to develop an autonomous defence capability are unrelenting. This discussion focuses on opportunities offered by a passive European defence strategy using a benchmark built by Bloomberg Intelligence.

Former Bridgewater investor Jake Miller discusses private markets investing, AI in asset management, and why the 60/40 portfolio strategy needs rethinking for 2026.