Perspectives
Stay up-to-date with the current investment and macroeconomic issues at ClearBridge Investments. We provide analyses of the themes and trends which lie at the heart of your investment challenges.
2022 Inflation Outlook: Transitory or Structural?
Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze, CFA, and Investment Strategy Analyst Josh Jamner, CFA, discuss the likely trajectory of inflation in 2022 and the good news for long-term equity investors in the face of rising interest rates.
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How Fears of the US Fed Tightening Are Causing Equity Volatility
In this video, Chief Investment Officer, Scott Glasser explains how reduced liquidity, inflation and supply chain issues are causing an adjustment period for US equities.
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AOR Update: Home Sick
Investment Specialists, Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner discuss how sick workers are measured in employment data could be understating jobs and overstating wage gains, and potentially impact monetary policy.
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The Long View: 2022 - The Year of Transition
We expect more volatile equity markets with more muted returns than the last two years as the macro environment undergoes a shift in terms of phase of the economic cycle, the pandemic, monetary policy and fiscal stimulus.
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Opportunities and Mega-Trends for Infrastructure
Infrastructure is at the centre of several well recognised and long term thematics, including COVID recovery stimulus programmes, net-zero and the path to decarbonisation, transport efficiency and digital connectivity. In this video Portfolio Manager, Nick Langley explains the impact of Public Policy globally and how investors can benefit from these opportunities and mega-trends.
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Protect Your Portfolio Against Rising Inflation
In this video Portfolio Manager, Shane Hurst discusses how infrastructure investors can get exposure to a set of assets that can protect their portfolios from rising inflation while also delivering attractive income with the potential for capital growth.
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Infrastructure Outlook in 2022: Defensive Growth, or Just Defense?
In an uncertain macroeconomic environment, the certainty of future earnings and growth will be key: infrastructure and utilities significantly outperform other equities on this measure.
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U.S. Equity Outlook: Markets Gird for Reduced Liquidity
In our U.S. Equity Outlook: “Markets Gird for Reduced Liquidity” Chief Investment Officer, Scott Glasser explains the importance of small caps contributing to market breadth and advocates a balanced approach among growth and value stocks as liquidity is withdrawn from the economy.
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AssetTV Global Equity Outlook for 2022
In a recently released AssetTV video Portfolio Managers, Margaret Vitrano, Elisa Mazen and Dmitry Khaykin highlight their views on inflation, Omicron and regulatory risks and discuss where they see the best opportunities in U.S. and international markets in the year ahead.
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AOR Update: The Anti-Taper Tantrum
With the economy recovering, removing QE is a step toward more normal but still accommodative monetary policy ahead of eventual rate hikes.
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Variants Could Extend Growth Curve for Vaccine Makers
The emergence of the COVID-19 Omicron variant shows the fight against the virus is ongoing and that COVID-19 could transition to an endemic virus.
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Acquiring a Taste for Climate-Friendly Food
Dimitry Dayen and Rob Buesing break down how agriculture is evolving to fight climate change through plant-based foods and other budding technologies.
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