After a couple of remarkably resilient quarters for the global economy and markets, the Asset Allocation Committee (AAC) maintains confidence in its overall medium-term outlook for growth and risk assets in parallel with applying more targeted exposure across asset classes and regions.
While idiosyncratic issues seem to have driven these recent corporate failures, they serve as a reminder of the importance of credit risk as the cycle matures.
Amid the AI frenzy are some early signs of the technology’s positive impact on productivity, raising profound implications for growth, inflation, labor markets, and asset prices.