Senior Portfolio Manager, Nigel Bliss, reviews the international equity markets for the first quarter 2024, highlights our portfolio performance and provides an outlook for the markets going forward.
Given the increased concentration in equity markets and lofty valuations on many of the largest companies, passive investing presents a very different, and arguably riskier, proposition today, than over the past ten years.
In a nod to the turnaround of the Japanese stock markets fortunes that followed a focus on improving corporate governance, the Koreans have now embarked on their own value up program.
Earlier this year, a debate broke out among investors on the significance and impact of passive investing on equity markets and their role in long-term price-discovery in financial markets.
Senior Portfolio Manager, Nigel Bliss, reviews Q4 2023, our investment performance and provides an outlook for the opportunities ahead.
Andrew Miller, CIO-Emerging Markets Equities, provides an outlook for emerging markets including what the unprecedented number of elections in 2024 means for emerging markets investors and where we see opportunities going forward.
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