ABS delivers performance through volatile market environments: what next?
We discuss how asset-backed securities provide an attractive investment proposition today and will perform well in benign and volatile environments.
RBC Funds (Lux) - Global Equity Focus Fund
EM equities: when challenges become opportunities
EM equities have started to perform better relative to DM equities of late. We look at whether this performance can be sustained and the main drivers.
Responsible Investment team
Global Equity Investor insight | November 2024
Reflecting on the past month, Jeremy Richardson explores shift in the market context, goldilocks conditions and developments in the world of AI.
Shifting Strategies: How institutions are embracing fixed income hedge funds
New global research of 450 of the largest institutional investors in the world shows that sentiment towards fixed income hedge funds is improving.
EM Equity Outlook Report 2025
We share a summary of our RBC EM Equity Outlook report for 2025, which includes macroeconomics, valuations, earnings, styles, themes, and ESG reforms.
Global Equity Investor insight | August 2025
Q2 earnings, market resilience, muted reactions to positive news, and shifting regional trends.
Asian Equity ESG report 2025
Integrating ESG factors into our Asian Equity investment process helps us unearth high quality, stable businesses that can succeed over the long term.
What is driving the positive sentiment towards alternative fixed income strategies?
Polina Kurdyavko discusses the resurgence of these funds and the strategic approaches used to navigate market volatility.
2025 Market View: Fixed Income
Mark Dowding, BlueBay Chief Investment Officer, shares his thoughts on 2024 and the year ahead.
Global Equity Investor insight | June 2025
Monthly update on the global equity market, discussing two scenarios that appear to have replaced tariff uncertainty in the minds of investors.
American exceptionalism: can the momentum continue?
The fundamentals of America’s economy can be described as exceptional, however valuation also matters and even great businesses can become over-valued
Timothy Ash, Senior Emerging Market Sovereign Strategist, Emerging Market Debt
Timothy gives his view on why he believes policy & politics are such an important consideration in the investment decision-making process.
Emerging markets equity
Disciplined security selection and risk management, combining top-down thematic views with rigorous company level research.
Fixed income
Sub asset class specialisms across long-only and alternative investment strategies.
Our approach
Being an active, engaged, and responsible investor can enhance risk-adjusted, long-term performance and is consistent with our fiduciary duty.
Responsible investment
We believe that being an active, engaged and responsible investor empowers us to enhance the long-term, risk-adjusted performance of our portfolios.
Alternatives
A heritage rooted in alternative investments. Fundamental research builds the basis for any of our investment decisions.
Responsibility for our environment
Understand the impact of our operations on the environment. Where possible remove, minimise or mitigate our impact on the environment.
Acting with conviction: investment grade
Neil Mehta, IG Portfolio Manager, discusses the team’s strong track record in investment grade debt and what it means to be a successful risk taker.
Taiwan: third time’s a charm?
Sentiment is positive amongst Taiwan’s tech companies this year, although Taiwanese equities could face further consolidation and caution is needed.
In praise of unconstrained investing
We discuss why a high conviction, total return approach is best suited to generating superior returns in the unconstrained EMD space.
Our CLO platform: an evolving growth story
Having recently priced our 11th CLO globally, we highlight the growth of our CLO platform, the drivers of its success, and plans for future issuance.
AI-related stocks: a time to tread carefully
The AI theme is a pertinent one for emerging markets equity investors. However, elevated stock valuations and strong demand suggest caution.
Why invest in Emerging Markets?
Investment grade
We are fundamental investors: this is the key component of our success.
European equity
Using a fundamental, bottom-up analytical approach, we construct high conviction portfolios of quality companies across Europe.
Responsibility for our conduct
Client satisfaction, ethical market practice, investment ESG, governance and monitoring and culture.
Opportunities in fixed income…in a lower rate environment
With the Fed’s recent half-point rate cut and more expected in 2025, we look at what this means for investors and how they can maintain their income.
Asian Takeaways: Rendang Review
Our trip to Indonesia reveals mixed feelings about the country’s economy due to weak consumption, a shrinking middle class, and slow economic growth.
Three drivers of growth and profitability in emerging markets
We highlight three key structural and cyclical drivers for a change in the EPS growth and profitability profile for the EM Equity asset class.
Privacy and cookies
Data protection and privacy policy
Navigating uncertainty in emerging markets equities
With trade uncertainty ongoing, we discuss intra-EM trade and key regions and countries in the EM equities universe – China, India and Latin America.
Shifting Strategies: How institutions are embracing fixed income hedge funds
Trump and Dump
It’s been a rollercoaster week in markets but as volatility fades, valuations can correct and there are opportunities to add performance.
Global equity
Our purpose is to make a positive difference to our clients through responsible long-term investment.
RBC Emerging Markets Equity Annual Climate Report 2024
Our EM Equity team makes measuring and monitoring the climate-related risks and opportunities of their strategy a key focus of ESG research.
Policy & politics
Driving alpha opportunities for our investors.
The $7 trillion question – when will cash come off the sidelines?
We explain why the case for sitting in cash is weakening – and why even small shifts in allocation could have a big impact on spreads and returns.
Romania - back on track after a high-stakes election
Romania risk assets have rebounded on an election win for pro-EU centrist Dan. We discuss what this means for the country’s economy and bond markets.
A noisy Trump, but relief that there isn't any follow through….(yet)
Trade tariffs – and widespread global economic disruption – were the talk of the week, with outlandish claims on Gaza also hitting the headlines.
South Africa: a sunnier future?
Our EM debt team discusses South Africa’s prospects post 2024’s pivotal election, and why political stability is key to achieving economic potential.
A favourable environment for high yield bonds
Today’s high yield bond market offers attractive yields, improved credit fundamentals, and alpha opportunities in sector allocation and single names.
Thinking the US can grow out of its debt burden is wishful thinking
We discuss how US economic underperformance would have severe implications on fiscal ratios and the trajectory of the country’s debt dynamics.
Pricing Externalities in a Changing World
Establishing a cost to pollution is critical in tackling climate change. However, often the firms emitting carbon do not incur these costs.
Corporate governance
Ownership and corporate governance.
Indonesia: a long-term growth story
Despite recent stock market falls and policy uncertainty, our EM Equity team believes the Indonesia equity story is a favourable one.
La Dolce Vita: lessons in purpose from Cucinelli
We discuss Brunello Cucinelli, an Italian luxury apparel business with a team who want to prove financially what they believe morally.
Joy, despair and the road in between
US policy uncertainty is making it difficult to implement medium-term plans, and this is weighing on business confidence and hindering investment.
Trump Towers
We dissect the week when Trump made a historic political comeback, winning each of the battleground swing states and scoring a resounding victory.
Keeping calm in dangerous times
The Middle East conflict escalated this week while, further afield, price action in Chinese assets grabbed attention in the wake of policy easing.
Trump 2.0, a song of fire and ice
There will be plenty of noise coming from Washington in the coming days, and we wait to see how this impacts markets, both domestically and overseas.
Are Trump's golden ideas starting to lose some lustre?
If there has been any political surprise in recent days, it has been a push by Merz to secure agreement on a large increase in defence spending.
DeepSeek shows us that 2025 won't just be about Donald Trump
This week’s DeepSeek disruption may inject some reality back into a market which, at times, has been at risk of believing too much in its own hype.
Are temperatures set to rise into the summer?
With Trump’s tariffs set to stay, we think there will inevitably be a period of adjustment that shows up in higher prices in the months ahead.
Pre-election nerves or is it a bout of the ‘cheese sweats'?
As we approach the US election, we look for opportunities to buy (or sell) extremes in price action, thinking that moves could subsequently reverse.
Our commitments
We participate in RI industry initiatives that work to increase transparency, protect investors, and foster fair and efficient capital markets.
The Second Coming….(minus Armageddon one hopes!)
Market volatility is subsiding but uncertainty in policy and politics will continue when Washington returns from recess at the start of next year.
Tax man cryin'. Rayner smilin'
What are the implications of any US Supreme Court ruling on US tariffs and the firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook?
