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Frontier Bonds: reward versus risk is still attractive in 2025?
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Frontier Bonds: reward versus risk is still attractive in 2025?

Kevin Daly explains why he thinks frontier country bonds should offer more reward than risk in 2025.

4 min Read
Climate Scenario Analysis: Steering through transition delays
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Climate Scenario Analysis: Steering through transition delays

Is it time to reassess your investment strategy amid climate policy delays and clean technology advances?

2 min Read
Down in Mexico?
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Down in Mexico?

In the latest episode of the Emerging Market Equities podcast, Nick Robinson sits down with Eduardo Figueiredo to discuss his recent trip to Mexico.

38 min Listen
Infrastructure: How investors can improve your quality of life
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Infrastructure: How investors can improve your quality of life

Find out how investors like you may enhance our quality of life and drive global growth by helping to build critical infrastructure

5 min Read
Emerging Markets: Navigating squalls as new Trump era looms on horizon
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Emerging Markets: Navigating squalls as new Trump era looms on horizon

Discover how Trump 2.0 will create emerging market winners and losers as economic headwinds build ahead of his controversial ‘America First’ policies.

5 min Read
The Investment Outlook: Introduction
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The Investment Outlook: Introduction

In our last Investment Outlook of 2024 we provide our latest House View, key macro trends to watch in 2025 and a range of topical articles from our asset class experts.

3 min Read
Equity: Unpicking the Trump effect on sustainability in four industries
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Equity: Unpicking the Trump effect on sustainability in four industries

Explore the impact of Trump policies on sustainability across tech, healthcare, industrials and utilities. What does the future hold?

4 min Read
Digital Assets: Trump comeback to usher in new era of financial innovation
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Digital Assets: Trump comeback to usher in new era of financial innovation

Trump's return may ignite a new era for digital assets, as Bitcoin soars and with regulatory changes on the horizon.

3 min Read
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Global Macro Research

Mexico will face challenges during Trump’s second term
Global Macro Research
Mexico will face challenges during Trump’s second term

The re-election of Donald Trump as US president will put pressure on Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to maintain favourable cross-border ties. But, despite threats of punitive economic policy from Washington, Mexico should still benefit from ‘nearshoring’ over the long term as a key partner of the US.

1 min Read
What does 2025 hold for macro and markets?
Global Macro Research
What does 2025 hold for macro and markets?

Insights from abrdn's economic research team on navigating 2025’s anticipated economic and geopolitical themes.

24 min Listen
Five macro themes to watch in 2025
Global Macro Research
Five macro themes to watch in 2025

We consider five themes for 2025, including slowing monetary policy easing, rising fiscal sustainability concerns, winners and losers from the changing patterns of globalisation, and major sources of political and geopolitical risk.

1 min Read
The Monthly Macro Outlook Video - December 2024
Global Macro Research
The Monthly Macro Outlook Video - December 2024

Find out the key macro and geopolitical themes for 2025 in our latest video. From rate cuts to global debt and political risks, stay informed and prepared.

4 min Watch
Global Economic Outlook: What is the impact of Trump 2.0 on the global economy?
Global Macro Research
Global Economic Outlook: What is the impact of Trump 2.0 on the global economy?

Discover how Trump's return to power could reshape the global economy with higher US growth, inflation, and significant policy shifts.

4 min Read
Will the bond vigilantes return?
Global Macro Research
Will the bond vigilantes return?

Explore rising government debt and the possible return of the bond vigilante. Listen to Macro Bytes for our insights on debt sustainability and markets.

30 min Listen
The Monthly Macro Outlook Video - November 2024
Global Macro Research
The Monthly Macro Outlook Video - November 2024

In our Monthly Macro video for November, Lizzy Galbraith, Political Economist, discusses what Trump’s leadership may mean for taxes, the deficit, immigration, trade, growth and inflation.

4 min Watch
Three scenarios for Trump's second term
Global Macro Research
Three scenarios for Trump's second term

We expect Donald Trump to deliver important shifts in trade, fiscal, regulatory and immigration policy. But the precise scale and composition of these changes will shape the growth, inflation and interest rate outlooks in different ways.

1 min Read
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