BPM speaks with Michael Mortimore about China’s challenges and opportunities
Reassessing China’s risk for EM investors.
Commentaries
Keeping investors informed on capital markets
Strategy Commentaries
Review each strategy’s performance and positioning during the quarter and near-term outlook. To view our latest commentaries please click the links below:
Quarterly Liquidity
Insights
Insights from our investment team on factors affecting recent market performance plus near-term outlook.
Money Moves Markets
Regular updates from Economist and Strategist Simon Ward on global monetary trends and their implications for economic and market prospects.
In the news
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Michael Mortimore talks TACO with Benefits and Pensions Monitor
Benefits and Pensions Monitor recently interviewed Michael for perspective on how the current US administration’s policies are affecting global markets.
NS Partners’ Michael Mortimore Featured in WealthBriefing and WealthBriefing Asia
Michael Mortimore, NSP’s Client Portfolio Manager spoke to WealthBriefing on how analysis of liquidity cycles can help provide discipline in stock selection and asset allocation.
Insights
Taking stock of EM performance
July 31, 2026
India has fallen out of favour with emerging market investors as attention has shifted to North Asian technology stocks.
US money update: further acceleration
July 29, 2026
Monetary buoyancy puts Fed Chair Warsh in a bind.
Eurozone money update: signal still downbeat
July 28, 2026
Monetary trends suggest that recent PMI improvement will prove temporary.
China beyond the headlines
July 22, 2026
Reassessing China’s risk for EM investors.
A cynical view of central bank money-speak
July 22, 2026
References to money trends in Fed and Bank of England reports represent tokenism, with no implications for policy.
BPM speaks with Michael Mortimore about China’s challenges and opportunities
July 20, 2026
Reassessing China’s risk for EM investors.
Japan’s QT disaster
July 9, 2026
The BoJ’s bond disposals are crushing money growth, threatening a return to deflation.
A “monetarist” perspective on current equity markets
July 2, 2026
The monetary backdrop for markets has become less favourable, while a pick-up in US money growth suggests rising medium-term inflation risks.
Are equities stalling?
June 25, 2026
The “excess” money backdrop for markets has become less favourable, with mixed prospects for H2.
Semiconductor lollapalooza stumbles
June 17, 2026
Semiconductors wobble as macro risk, momentum, leverage and crowding collide.
More slowdown signals
June 9, 2026
OECD leading indicator data and survey evidence on stocks support the forecast of a H2 loss of industrial momentum.
Alarming Eurozone / UK money data
June 2, 2026
April money numbers signal rising recession risk and suggest that policy-makers should be considering easing not tightening.
Is earnings momentum peaking?
May 27, 2026
An expected fall in global manufacturing PMI new orders suggests a moderation, at least, in current earnings strength.
Rallying EM equities reflect an AI-powered earnings surge
May 20, 2026
The AI boom is powering emerging market equities, led by South Korean DRAM giants which are now among the most profitable companies in the world.
Policy perversity
May 7, 2026
The policy biases of the Fed, ECB and Bank of England are opposite to those warranted by economic / monetary conditions.
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