Newton Wrap February 2023

Investment insights and analysis to keep you a step ahead.

For professional and institutional investors only.

Newton Investment Conference 2023

Over the course of the last year, we’ve reached some significant boundary conditions on the investment landscape, and across the major asset classes we’ve seen broad-based price falls in often volatile conditions. We believe financial-market participants now face a very different regime from the one that has prevailed in the years since the 2008 global financial crisis.

How does that regime look different? And what do we need to do to invest in it?

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Featured insight - Geopolitical outlook

Last year will be remembered as one of the most geopolitically significant years in a generation – a year in which a major power staged a land invasion, occupation and annexation of another European country for the first time since World War Two. The ensuing fallout has been profound for markets given the disruption to commodity supply chains and the political repercussions for Russia, which has been disconnected from the Western economic system. The impact on global markets has been felt most manifestly in the form of even higher inflationary pressures.

Geopolitical analyst Richard Bullock, CFA assesses the outlook for 2023.?

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In focus

Biofuels: fueling the next food crisis

“The increasing percentage of agricultural crops diverted from food to biofuels has raised concerns about lower food production and rising food prices."

With biofuels set to play an important role in the energy transition, Albert Chu, CFA considers the potential pitfalls.

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Emerging-market equities: finally time to shine??

After a prolonged period of relative underperformance, could emerging-market equities be set for a renaissance? Ian Smith discusses the three factors that long-term EM investors should focus on when assessing companies for investment.

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Don't miss these pieces

UK editions

• Brainwaves episode 1: The outlook for bonds in 2023
• Defining our approach to thematic investing
• Reflections of a UK equity investor

US editions

• Is autonomous driving in our future?
• What should the world do to reduce carbon dioxide emissions?
• Investing in climate adaptation

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