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Reading Time: 6 minutes After a challenging few years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February made it clear that 2022 would not mark a return to the low interest rate and low volatility, post-GFC paradigm.

Reading Time: 6 minutes After 15 years of post-crisis reconstruction, high energy prices, high inflation, rising interest rates and war in Ukraine have pushed volatility higher and are once again exposing the fragile backdrop to the global financial system.

Reading Time: 5 minutes In 2022, as the Fed started to tighten, the powerful rally in equities came to an end, and investor confidence in growth stocks has been eroded away.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Vladimir Putin defied the West and, against hopes and many expectations, proceeded with …

Reading Time: 5 minutes As we muddle our way through the pandemic, the acute phase of both illness and government support looks to be subsiding, with governments, businesses and individuals now focused on the adjustment to a world where COVID-19 becomes endemic.

Reading Time: 6 minutes Having been a COVID-19 success story in the early months of the pandemic, the Japanese equity market has been a marked laggard in 2021.

Reading Time: 6 minutes Against a difficult backdrop, there was no place to hide in public investment markets in 2022. Inflation and interest rates were on the rise and large blow-ups such as Credit Suisse, Tesla, FTX and the broader crypto-sphere dominated headlines.

Reading Time: 3 minutes When building a portfolio of US Large Cap companies, it is critical to have a global perspective. Over 30% of the revenue for the Fortune 100 is derived from outside the US. Additionally, many US multinational companies’ largest direct competitors are based in a different country.

Reading Time: 5 minutes The ongoing mini-crisis that erupted in the UK at the end of September underlines the broader systemic fragility, the challenges and risks of portfolio illiquidity and the very narrow execution space for policy­makers.

Reading Time: 6 minutes While the year’s weakness had initially been concentrated among the most speculative assets – including meme stocks, cryptocurrencies and special purpose acquisition vehicles – this sell-off became more broad-based in the second quarter.

Reading Time: 6 minutes The world is starting from an ongoing Covid-disrupted economic position compounded by Russia’s importance in commodity markets and geo-politics.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Real GDP in the developed world is now roughly back to pre-pandemic levels and while there have been differences in the pace of recovery, earnings and dividends have begun to recover sharply across major developed markets.

Reading Time: 5 minutes 2022 was a challenging year for the global economy and stock markets. The desperately sad war in Ukraine caused havoc on global commodity markets, further pressurizing inflation that was already on the rise.

Reading Time: 6 minutes In what is turning out to be a challenging year for global stock market returns, the performance of India stands out within the emerging market asset class.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the last few months, we have written extensively, and discussed at length with clients and consultants why we thought China was arguably the most attractively valued emerging market, if not global market.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Vladimir Putin defied the West and, against hopes and many expectations, proceeded with the deplorable invasion of …

Reading Time: 5 minutes If global news flow in 2020 was dominated by a lethal virus that originated in China, 2021 in emerging markets (EM) were subject to countless policy related headlines placing a question mark over the health of investing in Chinese equities.

Reading Time: 6 minutes The emerging markets asset class experienced a challenging quarter as negative news flow seemed to follow its largest component, China.

Reading Time: 11 minutes The decarbonization journey poses both investment opportunities and challenges with implications to risk appetite, access to capital and asset valuations.

Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 was not a systemic crisis. The scale and speed of fiscal and monetary stimulus led by the US Federal Reserve drove global markets to bounce, registering strong gains for the full year.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Clive Gillmore, CEO and Group CIO at Mondrian Investment Partners, discusses the international markets and global equities. Hosted by Paul Sweeney and Vonnie Quinn.

Reading Time: 7 minutes This paper sets out the relevance of international small cap investment in a post Covid-19 world.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mondrian’s CEO/Group CIO, Clive Gillmore, was one of three featured presenters on P&I’s Managing Volatility Amid the Coronavirus webinar in early May. The panelists discussed the recent spike in the markets and economic volatility, what investors might expect for the long term and the implications of corporate bailouts for investors.

Reading Time: < 1 minute As featured recently in Fin daily, “Asset Managers Have Clashing Views On Coronavirus Severity: Webinar,” Clive Gillmore, Group CIO and CEO of Mondrian, provided insight and perspective on the international investment landscape and the coronavirus.

Reading Time: 2 minutes One thing that prior episodes of dollar overvaluation have in common is that they did not last. In each case, the US dollar, as measured by its trade-weighted exchange rate against a basket of its peers, saw a massive depreciation over a multi-year period.

Reading Time: 6 minutes Emerging Markets Debt can complement traditional fixed income by enhancing long run returns and acting as an important diversifier within global portfolios.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Against the US dollar, the Japanese yen is at a 24-year low. Over the same period, the domestic purchasing power of the dollar has almost halved, whilst that of the yen has barely moved.

Reading Time: 5 minutes There is a long-held belief that engagement is the domain and responsibility of equity holders and fixed income investors cannot engage or do not have the tools to engage effectively with issuers.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Mondrian’s approach to credit is designed to identify and overweight the best value credits, consistent with Mondrian’s approach to bond market and currency selection.

Reading Time: 4 minutes There has been renewed interest in frontier markets as global bond yields remain low and the continued search for yield widens to evermore niche asset classes.