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International equities: From value trap to value creation?
After years of lagging the US, international equity markets are showing signs of a structural shift. Corporate reforms, improving capital allocation and rising returns on equity could support higher valuations and create attractive opportunities for investors as profitability improves across key global markets, outlines Portfolio Manager Faizan Baig and Client Portfolio Manager Callum Rushforth.
Europe's Electricity Price Premium: A Structural Risk and a Multi-Year Investment Theme
Europe's electricity challenge has moved well beyond the realm of cyclical energy market disruption. In their August 2026…
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Potential Was Never the Problem: Europe's Investment Cycle Has Arrived
Allianz Global Investors' Andrew Koch, Grant Cheng and Carola Dorn make the case that Europe's long-promised investment cycle is no longer a forecast — it is a construction site.
The great inversion: Investment opportunities amid a new paradigm
For two decades, the United States consumed and China built. That division of labor has not merely evolved — it has inverted. The investment map drawn for the early 2000s no longer describes the next decade.
Warning Lights On
The global economy is moving forward with warning lights flashing.
Where Returns Have Come From
by Derek Benedet, Portfolio Manager, Purpose Investments Developed markets have crushed it over the past three years. Sentiment…
The Next Phase of Broadening: HSBC AM Says the Equity Cycle Is Widening, but the Bar Is Rising
Equity markets have spent much of 2026 leaning on a single sturdy crutch: profits. In its August 2026…
China's Long Game: Doomberg on the Energy Chess Match the West Doesn't Know It's Playing
There is an old joke about the person who loses a chess match in twelve moves and spends…
ASML Is Crushing the Nasdaq: 143% Gains, a Perfect Score, and More Upside Ahead?
by SIACharts.com ASML Holding N.V. ADR (NYSE: ASML) has achieved a perfect SIA SMAX Score of 10 out…
The Great Rotation: Momentum, Valuation, and the Emerging Opportunity Set
The investment landscape is undergoing a structural realignment — one that rewards diversification for the first time in…
Europe Below the Surface: KKR's McVey Finds the Alpha Where the Map Runs Out
The default view on Europe has long been one of resignation. Modest growth. Structural drag. Coalition governments that…
The Tsunami of European Bank Mergers
by Cole Smead, CEO, Portfolio Manager, Smead Capital Management Most global investors are not attuned to what can…
The underappreciated strength of European banks
Portfolio Managers Julian McManus and Chris O’Malley, together with Research Analyst Martin Leitgeb, discuss how European banks’ strong performance in recent years reflects not only a rebound from depressed valuations but also sustained improvement in fundamentals that remains underappreciated by the market.
PGIM Mid-Year 2026: A World Running Hot, With the Tail Risks to Prove It
The global economy is growing. Inflation is sticky. The Middle East is burning. And PGIM's mid-year outlook says: position carefully, because the base case and the worst case have rarely been this close together.
Beyond the EM-DM Divide: Allianz Research's 4Rs Framework Reframes Emerging Market Risk
by Editorial Team, AdvisorAnalyst.com The Iran war has done something no oil shock has done before. According to…