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Infrastructure Insights Video

10 Jan 2024

The Impact of Bond Yields on Infrastructure Assets

Watch Portfolio Manager, Nick Langley explain the impact that bond yield volatility has on the infrastructure asset class.

Anatomy of a Recession Market Outlook

5 Jan 2024

The Long View: Here Comes the Sun?

Several rays of light are showing through the macro clouds, including an increasing likelihood of a soft landing with the Fed being in a more flexible position as inflation moderates and three positive indicator changes for the ClearBridge Recession Risk Dashboard in the last quarter.

Anatomy of a Recession Equity Insights Market Outlook

15 Dec 2023

U.S. Economic Outlook: Beware Lagged Effects

The economy is at the crux of this cycle, the most difficult period of headwinds. We expect the lagged effects of Fed tightening to slow economic growth during the first half of 2024 and we continue to maintain our base case of a recession as we move through this period.

Equity Insights Market Outlook

15 Dec 2023

U.S. Equity Outlook: Market Breadth to Dictate Bullishness

CIO, Scott Glasser explains the importance of greater market participation to extend the current bull market and why high-quality defensive stocks, particularly in health care, are positioned to hold up better than the current mega cap leaders in an economic downturn.

Infrastructure Insights Market Outlook

15 Dec 2023

2024 Infrastructure Outlook: Diversification Benefits Could Be Timely

Infrastructure’s inflation pass-through worked well in 2023, supporting earnings across the asset class, while its defense and diversification could make it valuable in 2024.

Anatomy of a Recession Market Outlook

7 Dec 2023

AOR Update: The Fed is Done, What's Next?

With the U.S. market and Federal Open Market Committee suggesting the rate hike cycle is complete, the first rate cut could come by May, a pause consistent with the Fed’s “higher for longer” messaging.

Equity Insights

23 Nov 2023

Global Value Improvers: A Value Approach to Delivering ESG Gains

ESG investing approaches typically focus on best-in-class companies in growth sectors, overlooking value sectors that carried poor sustainability profiles in the past but are today undertaking powerful new initiatives for improvement.

Infrastructure Insights Video

17 Nov 2023

Infrastructure Opportunities Amid Uncertainty

Watch Portfolio Manager, Nick Langley discuss the drivers of recent listed infrastructure performance and highlight how stabilising real yields and strong company fundamentals are improving the outlook for the asset class.

Anatomy of a Recession Market Outlook

6 Nov 2023

AOR Update: Not Always a Straight Line Down

Despite better than expected Q3 GDP, we remain cautious as consumption has historically remained strong right up until or even past the start of previous recessions.

Anatomy of a Recession Market Outlook

6 Oct 2023

The Long View: The Crux

The toughest test for investors lies ahead as stimulus and consumer resilience fade while lagged effects of rate hikes take hold.

Anatomy of a Recession Market Outlook

29 Sep 2023

Higher Deficits to Impact Equity Valuations, Market Leadership

The U.S. interest burden is set to move higher in the coming decade and could eclipse the previous peak seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Infrastructure Insights

8 Sep 2023

Total Returns Set Infrastructure Apart from Equities and Bonds

Listed infrastructure’s defensiveness relative to other equities and its ability to provide long-term capital growth over an economic cycle relative to bonds offer differentiation in an environment of macroeconomic uncertainty and higher bond yields.