By Claudia RAVAT, ESG Analyst, La Française AM Over the last two weeks, ten major insurance and reinsurance companies have left the Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), including AXA , Allianz , SCOR and Swiss Re, some citing antitrust allegat...

By: Tiffany Wilding, Managing Director and Economist What happened? The May U.S. employment report showed payrolls were much stronger than expected (339k). However, details of the report were more mixed. The unemployment rate increased to ...

By Peter Garnry, Head of Equity Strategy at Saxo Concentration and valuation risks are coming back into US equities as May 2023 is ending today. The rally this year has been predominately driven by technology stocks and especially recently...

The headwinds that plagued emerging market debt (EMD) for most of 2021 and 2022 have broadly become tailwinds— thanks primarily to swift central bank action that has allowed emerging markets to reach peak inflation and begin leveling off rates fas...

By Peter Garnry, Head of Equity Strategy at Saxo Most of the equity market strength the past week has come from AI related stocks while the majority of growth equity themes are actually down highlighting the shallow equity market. The key ...

Where the government goes, companies follow. So goes conventional wisdom on doing business in China. But when it comes to improving ESG, that assumption may be due for an update. This week’s Chart Room shows that investors and consumers are havi...