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Mega IPOs and faster index inclusion rules may reshape liquidity, float, weighting, and execution for index investors and benchmark tracking.

Year-to-date stock market returns have been driven by robust earnings growth. But when assessing the equity outlook, it’s important to ask what’s supporting the strong earnings trend.

As private infrastructure markets face slower deal activity, elevated interest rates and growing levels of undeployed capital, investors may want to reassess where they seek infrastructure exposure.

Global equity income may merit attention as inflation lingers, valuations stay stretched and investors seek more resilient, less correlated equity exposure.

AI investment enthusiasm is rising, but returns will vary widely. Long-term value is more likely where practical, commercially viable use cases are already beginning to emerge, says Walter Scott’s George Dent.

Semiconductor sector volatility remains high as investors weigh surging memory growth against questions over durability and valuation. Walter Scott’s Murdo MacLean breaks down what’s going on.

Walter Scott’s John Rae assesses outsourced drugs manufacturer Lonza’s role in the healthcare ecosystem.

Checkpoints is a comprehensive monthly chartbook highlighting major top-of-mind themes that could shape financial markets in the near term. In addition to the broader macroeconomic discussion, Checkpoints delivers detailed views on major asset classes, including global equities, fixed income and real assets.

The U.S.’ extraction of President Maduro from Caracas on January 4 could alter the trajectory of geopolitics in the Americas.

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Watch a quarterly Fund update with April LaRusse: Head of Fixed Income Specialists at Insight Investment.