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What the trade data says about BRICS+ ambitions
Kim Catechis, senior investment strategist at the Franklin Templeton Institute, argues that BRICS+ has become more representative and less able to act together...
Reporting season favoured delivery over promise
Datt Capital's Emanuel Datt says reporting season split the market into companies funding their own growth and those still asking shareholders to fund an...
Concentration in the S&P 500 is an outcome, not a design choice
S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Amit Pathak says the index’s top 10 weight has more than doubled in a decade because US earnings concentrated first, and that the...
The WiseTech bull case after a difficult result
WiseTech Global fell 11 per cent on results day, but Datt Capital sees a different story in the numbers. Here is the bull case, the risks, and what FY27...
Emerging markets: the AI sell-off and the value opportunity
Pzena's Rakesh Bordia says the market has crushed emerging-market IT services stocks on the fear that AI will make them obsolete, and that the sell-off is a...
The signs of a bubble are back
Bathla's collapse reveals a private credit bubble hiding inside a true premise: everyone agrees on the housing shortage, yet every lender pays a price anyway....
Fund managers are moving their emerging markets desks to where the index already lives
Amundi has moved four senior emerging markets investors to Hong Kong and Singapore. With four Asian markets holding 79 per cent of the index, advisers should...
Australian equity funds just had their second-worst half against the index
Sue Lee's mid-year SPIVA scorecard shows three in four Australian equity funds trailing the ASX 200, the weakest result since 2013, while adviser Andrew...
US earnings: the 493 are forecast to outgrow the Magnificent Seven
Sell-side consensus expects S&P 500 earnings growth of 16.6 per cent from the other 493 companies in 2027, against 4.9 per cent from the Magnificent Seven....
Emerging markets: why cheap is no longer enough
Orbis' Saurav Das says passive flows have broken the mechanism that repriced cheap emerging market stocks. The new test is not whether a company is cheap, but...
Franklin Templeton hits record US$1.8 trillion as private markets run ahead of target
Franklin Templeton reported a record US$1.79 trillion in AUM for the June quarter. Private markets fundraising beat its full-year target early, raising the...
Where the flow splits, active bond funds still win
The active-versus-passive debate looks different in fixed income. Amundi's quarterly results show active bond funds attracting serious new inflows, with local...
Ten managers, one verdict on ASX20 concentration
Ten active Australian equity managers agree: ASX20 concentration is distorting prices at the top of the market and widening the gap between index heavyweights...
Space as infrastructure? The AI trade advisers keep getting half right
AI infrastructure investment is emerging as the more durable side of the AI trade. Franklin Templeton's Matthew Cioppa argues the real opportunity has shifted...