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20 May 2026

Global Government Debt Has Reached $111tn. What Does That Mean for Investors?

Governments have always borrowed, and in many cases, debt has funded the infrastructure, stability and investment that support long-term growth. What makes today different is the combination of record debt, higher rates and rising fiscal demands arriving at the same time.

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13 May 2026

The Cost of Comfort: What Happens When the Market Backstop Shrinks?

For more than a decade, markets have operated with an increasingly powerful assumption: when stress becomes severe enough, governments and central banks will step in. During the pandemic, fiscal stimulus and liquidity injections prevented widespread economic collapse.

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06 May 2026

Oil’s Long-Term Price Outlook: Less About Scarcity, More About Strategy

For APAC investors, oil has always been more than a commodity price. It feeds into inflation, currencies, trade balances, consumer demand, and corporate margins. That is why the latest pressure on OPEC matters. Not because it changes the oil market overnight, but because it may change how reliable long-term price support really is.

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29 April 2026

Borrowed Confidence: Why Asia Cannot Simply Copy Wall Street’s Market Reflex

US equities have repeatedly recovered from shocks, but Hong Kong and APAC investors should be careful about borrowing Wall Street’s confidence without testing the local fundamentals beneath it.

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22 April 2026

Thematic Roadmap: Why the Best Opportunities Sit Outside Consensus

A recent Barclays “2035 Thematic Roadmap”, that maps 150 global trends by likelihood and potential impact, offers more than a view of the future. For institutional investors, it provides something arguably more valuable: a snapshot of where market consensus already sits.

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15 April 2026

In Fast-Moving Tech, Fundamentals Matter More - Not Less

Markets have a habit of treating new technologies as reset points - moments when the old rules no longer apply. Artificial intelligence is being framed in much the same way.

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