The Investor's Guide to China: Cities and migration (#28)

Where people live within China - and why - is fundamental to understanding the country’s changing demographics. That, in turn, has important implications for the Chinese economy, consumption trends, and where investors should be looking. In this episode, Catherine Yeung, Investment Director, and M…

Rich Pickings: Asia and Latin America are reshaping the world for investors

Asia and emerging markets are our focus this month. Richard Edgar is joined by Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Paul Greer, Asia Economist Peiqian Liu, and Senior Sovereign Analyst Andressa Tezine to discuss whether they're being overlooked by investors. And, as interest rates pivot and pirouette aro…

The Investor's Guide to China: China's bond market (#27)

In this episode, Catherine Yeung, Investment Director, and Marty Dropkin, Head of Equities, Asia Pacific, tackle a topic that often flies under the radar, but could in fact hold great potential for investors: China’s bond market. Investors focused on the stock market, and the challenges Chinese pr…

Rich Pickings: Ready for a reset | Analyst Survey 2024

How confident are CEOs as they lean in to 2024? Is inflation still a major worry for businesses or has it been banished? How concerned are company managers about shifting geopolitics? For well over a decade we’ve been asking our worldwide network of sector analysts these questions (and about 80 mo…

Rich Pickings: What the lessons of 2023 can teach investors for the year ahead

From artificial intelligence to US resilience, Richard Edgar discusses the big themes of 2023 with a panel of multi asset portfolio managers: Taosha Wang, Ian Samson and Talib Sheikh. What can the investment stories of the year teach us about the year ahead? With additional contributions from Lee …

The Investor's Guide to China: Transition materials (#26)

In this episode, Catherine Yeung, Investment Director, and Marty Dropkin, Head of Equities, Asia Pacific, explore the critical role of transition materials — minerals and elements, such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel, that are essential to developing and deploying clean energy technologies. Demand…

Rich Pickings: Outlook 2024 - Four ways forward

Richard Edgar is joined by Steve Ellis, Global CIO for Fixed Income, Marty Dropkin, Head of Equities for Asia Pacific, and Global Macro Economist, Anna Stupnytska, to discuss the four scenarios Fidelity's investment teams are watching for 2024.  With additional contributions from Fidelity's Chief …

The Investor's Guide to China: In conversation with Louis-Vincent Gave (#25)

In this special edition of The Investor’s Guide to China, Catherine Yeung, Investment Director, is joined in Hong Kong by Louis-Vincent Gave, the founder and CEO of Gavekal, a leading independent provider of global investment research. They tackle questions from the development of China’s AI lands…

Rich Pickings: Higher rates - is the transmission mechanism broken... or just delayed

Richard Edgar is joined by Steve Ellis, Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income, Gita Bal, Global Head of Fixed Income Research, and Salman Ahmed, Fidelity’s Global Head of Macro and Strategic Asset Allocation, to discuss whether the levers central banks have to pull are working.   With addition…

The Investor's Guide to China: Japanification (#24)

When you look at some of the big economic issues China is dealing with today—lacklustre growth, a real estate slump, price disinflation, or an ageing population—you quickly realise Japan has been through a lot of the same challenges. What can we learn from Japan’s experiences? Is there a policy pl…