In this research note, we decompose 2Q26 fixed income returns, examine how AI-related corporate issuance is changing fixed income indices, offer our initial assessment of new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, and discuss our outlook and portfolio positioning for the...
After more than thirteen years of large cap dominance, anchored most recently by the AI driven rally in the “Magnificent Seven,” small and midcap U.S. equities have led their large cap peers for four consecutive quarters. The post The Broadening: Why Market Leadership...
Pivotal on New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s reform agenda, is the abandonment of the Federal Reserve’s forward guidance, a multi-decade tradition at the Federal Reserve since the pre-GFC days of Alan Greenspan. In reaction, economists, strategists, and...
Quality investing in developed non-US markets has run into a strong headwind. After more than a decade of durable outperformance, the highest-quality segments of the MSCI EAFE universe lagged sharply over the year ending April 2026, while lower-quality, more cyclical...
As we enter the second quarter of 2026, geopolitical conditions have shifted meaningfully since our last quarterly review. The post Signals & Shields: Fixed Income Strategies for a World in Flux appeared first on Xponance | Asset Management and...
We believe the energy supply shocks of the 2020s will ultimately prove no less revolutionary for financial markets than their 50-year-old cousins did. Much like the First and Second World Wars culminated in the localization of steel production, over the next two...