With mud season keeping the conflict in Ukraine deadlocked and the next round of major central bank meetings still a fortnight away, investors turned their attention to taxes, corporate earnings and China’s economy during the third week of April.
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Market Insights: Money market
As we head into Q2 2023, EPFR’s iMoneyNet team shares key trends we’re seeing on asset allocation, yields and maturities for money market flows.
EPFR in the news – April 2023
EPFR fund flow data is trusted by leading media across the globe. Check out our April 2023 citations, featuring Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
Off the wires: Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America
Post pandemic, the US and Europe have seen prices soar and policymakers have been scrambling to slow the pace of inflation. Europe and the US took different approaches to keeping their economies stimulated during the pandemic, and this article from The Economist discusses how this may affect how each of these economies may bounce back.
Inflation is on the rise. So is fear
Driven by supply chain, labor market and energy supply issues, consumer prices are surging at a rate last seen in the 1970s and 1980s. To what degree this could have been foreseen is the subject of increasingly acrimonious debate.
Dealing with inflated expectations
Expectations for economic growth, US job creation and the transitory nature of inflation all took a knock during the second week of October as supply chain issues and rising energy prices continue to bite.
The global evolution of low-volatility investment in asset management
Asset managers are responding to this demand. According to data from Informa Financial Intelligence’s EPFR, by mid-2Q19 there were 204 low-volatility funds globally with a total Asset under Management (AuM) of over US$130 billion.