Market Insights

September 1, 2020

Fallen angels, or issuers that are downgraded from investment grade (“IG”) to high yield (“HY”), can represent significant risk or reward depending on your vantage point and investment guidelines.

July 1, 2020

Despite stimulus and support measures to support markets and encourage economic growth, we are not in the “V-shaped” recovery camp. Growth headwinds may persist, with re-openings delayed until a Covid-19 vaccine or therapy becomes available.

July 1, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 witnessed a strong rally in risk assets as the federal government utilized every tool imaginable to stabilize markets following the COVID-19 related selloff in March. 

September 1, 2020

A productivity boom would be a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Although such a boom is by no means guaranteed, conditions appear good for an uptick in productivity.

July 25 2020

The world is unlikely to see the same economic repercussions as it did in March and April of this year. There is a more sophisticated understanding of how to manage COVID-19, the blunt force tool of a shutdown is unlikely to be reimplemented on the same scale,1 and businesses are better prepared.

July 1, 2020

Predictions of the value of the implied volatility of an FX pair are commonly used as inputs to pricing models in an FX option trading strategy. Depending on the trading strategy, however, a metric that quantifies implied volatility relatively across currencies can be of supplemental value or of more interest than level prediction for a single currency.

July 16, 2020

There is no doubt that environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles play an increasingly influential role in investment management today.

May 15, 2020

COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have called into question the future need for office space. While we believe there may be a permanent shift to remote working arrangements, determining the impacts to office demand requires a more nuanced approach. 

September 13, 2019

We believe U.S. economic growth and labor markets remain on solid footing. Trade frictions and other geopolitical tensions have not pushed the current expansion off course, but the associated uncertainty could pose a risk.

August 4, 2020

The growth of “green” energy is indisputable—renewable energy overtook coal generation in the United States for the first time in 2019, providing 23% of US power generation, exceeding coal’s 20% share.1 Solar and wind energy receive the majority of new investment, with 97% of net new generation capacity additions expected to come from these two resources in 2020.2

January 1, 2020

MetLife Investment Management is pleased to provide you with our latest Private Capital Quarterly Investment Update, which provides our outlook on the global private placement market.

December 13, 2019

MetLife Investment Management's Mansi Patel, Vice President, Infrastructure & Project Finance and Syed Ahmed, Associate Director, Infrastructure & Project Finance were featured in Insurance AUM, discussing social infrastructure.

August 7, 2020

An open foreign investment environment has unlocked highly productive agricultural land in Peru and allowed the nation to become a top fruit and vegetable exporter. 

July 17, 2020

MetLife Investment Management is pleased to provide you with our latest Private Capital Quarterly Investment Update, which provides our outlook on the global private placement market.

July 1, 2020

Expanding sawmill capacity in the U.S. South has contributed to decreasing real discount rates on timberland in the region, particularly in states with the largest investments in capacity.