Markets in Focus: Positioning equities in a rising inflationary environment – What’s your strategy?
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February 8, 2022
In 2021, economies around the world began recovering from the pandemic and we started to see vaccination rates rise. Despite this progress, the Omicron strain reminds us that we are not yet out of the woods. If economic expansion continues in 2022, with a sustained period of high inflation, we could see rising interest rates across countries, potentially leading investors to re-evaluate their equity portfolios. Mark Carver, Managing Director, Global Head of Equity Factor Products and Equity Portfolio Management and Hitendra Varsani, Managing Director, Global Solutions Research at MSCI recap the macro events that shaped the factor investing landscape in 2021, discuss factor-index performance in different U.S. interest-rate and yield-curve regimes and explore how the recent surge in inflation may impact style-factor and sector performance.
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