The U.S. equity market’s struggles in early Q2 2025, combined with renewed opportunities for investing in non-U.S. equity markets, may encourage asset allocators to lessen the focus on home bias and reassess broader geographic exposures. 

U.S. tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets. Our scenario analysis shows a bleak outlook for multi-asset class portfolios. Shifts in allocation strategies, however, have offered relative downside protection and new opportunities in turbulent markets.

U.S. markets declined in the first quarter amid souring consumer sentiment, inflation and tariff headlines and disruption from China’s low-cost DeepSeek model. We explore global markets responses to trade tensions and why investment quality may be a pivotal risk factor in the AI race.

Why have some emerging-market equities bucked the underperformance trend versus the developed markets following the global financial crisis in 2008? We identified the shared fundamental attributes of these “long-term compounder” stocks.  

Some emerging-market (EM) stocks have bucked the trend of underperforming headline EM indexes following the 2008 global financial crisis. We used nearly 30 years of index- and stock-level returns to identify their shared fundamental attributes. 

We propose a risk-based framework to aid asset allocators, including wealth managers, in better understanding active ETFs as an investment category and to help discern between genuinely active strategies and enhanced indexing. 

We segmented India’s public equity market to study patterns in its factor, thematic and industry exposures. And to assess how the current market profile could change, we also analyzed private firms that may be in the pipeline to become public. 

The global number of publicly traded firms has grown steadily for more than two decades, but not consistently across regions. The variations in supply patterns have translated to differences in buyback yields and EPS growth rates.

A global equity portfolio may not be as broadly diversified as it appears. Understanding how deglobalization and megatrends are impacting regions, industries and asset classes can help in designing a portfolio with the desired diversification profile. 

Countries, sectors and industries that combine higher international revenues and a manufacturing orientation tend to be more export-driven and are likely beneficiaries of the trend toward deglobalization. What’s the case in India’s equity market?

For global investors, the idea of individual country or market allocations isn’t new. But in today’s world, with a dynamic geopolitical map, the rewiring of supply chains and a greater focus on sustainable investing, it may be time for a new approach. 

We introduce an integrated framework to investing in individual country and regional markets, analyzing macroeconomic risks and new growth opportunities as well as the role of sustainable investments in a globally diversified portfolio. 

A sector-based perspective of the Indian equity market, one of the emerging beneficiaries of global power shifts, indicates the valuation premiums of most sectors are high in historical terms and relative to sectors in other emerging markets.

China’s large share of emerging-market (EM) equities and its falling correlations with EM are leading some investors to allocate separately to the two universes. A tactical overlay of futures and swaps could be used to adjust regional exposures. 

We highlight key characteristics of the Singapore equity market and analyze the impact of foreign-listed securities in the MSCI Singapore Free Index. Investors may consider managing Singapore equity exposure using futures linked to the index. 

Beyond the symbolic nature of being the first to land on the moon's south pole, this feat underscores India's shift towards technology-driven innovation and could mark an expanding global role and increasing prominence in global equity portfolios. 

The rally in the first half of 2023 shared some similarities, and had notable differences, with past concentrated rallies. In addition to AI, structural megatrends, such as the blockchain economy and robotics, helped drive the rally. 

Global equities, as measured by the MSCI ACWI Index, roared back through May of 2023. A closer look, however, revealed that just a handful of stocks accounted for more than 70% of the total return. Which stocks punched above their weight? 

The recent banking crisis startled the credit markets while the broad equity market remained resilient. We analyze net long-short positions as investors adjusted their index futures exposures to adapt to changing market dynamics.  

There are varying risks and opportunities for emerging markets (EM) equities in Asia. We highlight EM Asia futures as a potential path for asset allocation, tactical adjustments and risk-management purposes.

Investors in emerging markets begin the year with historically low valuations and softened U.S. dollar strength. With a wide decoupling within these markets, we assess the consideration of multi-country, multi-currency or single-country futures.

India is the world’s fifth largest economy and one of the fastest-growing major markets. We believe that futures linked to the MSCI India Index could help capture a deeper opportunity set and manage Indian equity exposure. 

With the MSCI World Index down 20.3% in the first half of 2022, equity hedge funds have not been immune to recent market volatility. We evaluate how equity hedge-fund exposure has changed in terms of sector and style factors.

Carbon markets can play a significant role in managing carbon risk within equity portfolios to hedge against price risks. Our research focuses on applications, carbon-risk management and correlations to other assets classes.

The carbon market can play a significant role in the decarbonization of the global economy by putting a price on carbon and giving polluters an incentive to reduce their emissions.

We examine liquidity-related statistics for options linked to MSCI indexes and listed on several global and local exchanges

Futures linked to MSCI indexes are increasingly being used as a tool to manage market exposure and maintain exposures to target investment benchmarks.

Classic risk-control uses cash and/or U.S. Treasurys with a growth asset, typically referenced to an equity index, which has stabilized volatility, but not always allowed strategies to reach their full potential. We present new approaches for doing so.

Disperse markets have historically provided opportunities for active managers to outperform their respective benchmarks. We showed that, based on historical trends, CSV helped shed light on identifying where the dispersion was greatest.