CIO Scott Glasser and Head of Strategy Jeff Schulze see the economy slowing but avoiding recession in the second half of 2024 into 2025. Meanwhile, the stock market remains healthy yet bears watching due to deterioration beyond the mega caps. They also explain how these conditions create compelling opportunities for active managers.…

Industrials Analyst Hannah Whang and Portfolio Manager Steve Rigo discuss the current freight recession and the macro catalysts that could support a recovery in the transports industry. They also offer their views on investment opportunities among LTL trucking companies, freight rail operators and package delivery providers.…

Portfolio Analyst Ben Buckley and Software Services Analyst Hilary Frisch discuss how cutting edge innovation is helping sustainability goals and what the sustainability opportunities and risks are of cutting edge innovation like AI.ClearBridge Investments

Portfolio Manager Shane Hurst discusses how AI and data growth are among strong thematic drivers for infrastructure and utilities stocks, which continue to effectively pass through stubborn inflation and look attractively valued.ClearBridge Investments

The Magnificent Seven, a collection of the largest companies in the market, have begun to show divergent stock performance. Internet and Technology Analysts Naveen Jayasundaram and Anuj Parikh join Jeff Schulze to assess recent results, the beneficial impact of generative AI as well as regulatory and competitive risks to watch.…

Energy analyst Adam Meyers joins Jeff Schulze to discuss the latest in the energy sector, including his takeaways from recent large mergers in oil and gas, the prospects of upstream producers versus oilfield services, and what oil and gas companies are doing to lower their emissions and play a role in the energy transition.…

ClearBridge’s Head of Economic and Market Strategy joins Consuelo Mack on WealthTrack to explain why he expects a shallow recession in 2024, the importance of the consumer and the labor markets in determining the economy's path and how a new interest rate environment could cause the market's concentrated growth leadership to broaden and support val…

The ClearBridge Anatomy of a Recession team of Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner make their annual forecasts for the economy and equity markets, discussing why the lagged impacts of the Fed's aggressive monetary tightening cycle should be fully felt in the year ahead and sharing their prognostications for stocks and bonds in 2024.…

Portfolio Manager John Baldi and Senior Analyst Tatiana Eades join Jeff Schulze to discuss their preferences among dividend payers and income-oriented sectors such as utilities. They explain how a potential peak in interest rates could offer a tailwind for these companies, especially with recession still a key concern.…

Portfolio Manager Evan Bauman provides an update on performance and positioning.ClearBridge Investments

ClearBridge ESG analysts Ben Buckley and Anna Cala highlight recent biodiversity-focused international agreements and initiatives, explain the main drivers of biodiversity loss and the investment opportunities ClearBridge is seeing as we examine nature-related impacts and dependencies across sectors.…

ClearBridge Portfolio Managers Matt Lilling and Mike Kagan join Head of Economic and Market Strategy Jeff Schulze to debate the recent disconnect between strong equity performance amid a weakening economic backdrop, what factors could support resilient corporate earnings and where they see pockets of market strength in the back half of the year.…

Health care analysts Marshall Gordon and Brittany Henderson highlight new treatments for the chronic conditions of diabetes and obesity. They quantify the size of the Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and obesity markets, discuss innovations in managing diabetes and explain how GLP-1 therapeutics developed to treat diabetes can be effective in addressing …

Technology analysts Hilary Frisch and Anuj Parikh provide perspective on the surge of interest in generative AI and the likely paths forward for its application.ClearBridge Investments

ClearBridge Analyst Rob Buesing explains the defensive characteristics of consumer staples companies and where he sees stock opportunities across the beauty and food and beverage industries as China reopens but a U.S. recession looms.ClearBridge Investments

Dimitry Dayen and Hannah Whang break down recent decarbonization commitments from the aviation industry, the nascent technologies such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) those commitments will need to rely on, the role of the Inflation Reduction Act in spurring innovation and how industrial software companies are enabling emissions optimizations as…

The Anatomy of a Recession team of Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner discuss the resilience of a weakening U.S. economy, focusing on whether 2023 will yield a long awaited recession or escape with a soft landing, the potential timing of a Fed pivot and implications of these various scenarios on equities.ClearBridge Investments

Sector Analysts Hilary Frisch and Naveen Jayasundaram discuss the headwinds that have impacted mega cap and other long duration growth stocks in 2022 and how they are sifting through the rubble to identify compelling opportunities in derisked or overlooked companies in technology, internet and related areas.…

Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze joins Consuelo Mack to discuss rising recession risks as measured by a yellow signal for the ClearBridge Recession Risk Dashboard and analyzes how a resilient labor market and peaking inflation could still allow the Federal Reserve to engineer a soft landing for the U.S. economy.…

ClearBridge Portfolio Manager Chris Eades and Commodities Analyst Adam Meyers discuss how an increased focus on cash flow generation and financial discipline by energy companies as well as new energy legislation will impact domestic oil and natural gas production.ClearBridge Investments

Portfolio Manager Charles Hamieh breaks down how infrastructure acts as a pass-through for inflation and rising rates, what separates it from commodities and real estate in its ability to provide inflation protection, and where he sees opportunities in infrastructure asset class.ClearBridge Investments

ClearBridge Senior Health Care Analyst Marshall Gordon and Portfolio Manager Jean Yu discuss investment risks and opportunities in the health care sector.ClearBridge Investments

Portfolio Analyst Steve Rigo joins Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze to trace the spike in inflation, analyze how the Federal Reserve is seeking to tame it and what signals would indicate success. They also discuss where to invest in a period of sharply rising interest rates and higher recession risks and the medium term outlook for equities.…

Robin Freeman hosts Ben Buckley and David Hochstim to discuss the role of financial companies in helping the world reach net-zero emissions. They offer highlights from the 2022 ClearBridge Stewardship Report, which gives a comprehensive view of the latest in ESG investing at ClearBridge, explain how they assess climate risks, discuss the value of c…

Senior Industrials Analyst Hannah Whang and Portfolio Manager Pawel Wroblewski discuss the near-term and secular impacts on industrial companies due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, highlighting the likelihood of increased defense spending in Europe and the region’s stepped-up focus on energy security.…

ClearBridge Portfolio Manager Charles Hamieh weighs in on how infrastructure portfolios fare during periods of inflation and rising bond yields.ClearBridge Investments

ClearBridge’s Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze explains why U.S. economic health, more than geopolitics, will drive markets in 2022.ClearBridge Investments

Director of Research Chuck Harris joins Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze to debate the direction of company profits as the economy grapples with inflation and a normalization of economic growth and monetary policy. They also discuss pandemic changes that leave companies in certain industries well positioned to maintain solid earnings growth and h…

Chief Investment Officer Scott Glasser joins the Anatomy of a Recession team of Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner to discuss the impacts of surging inflation on the economy, the outlook for growth and value stocks in a changing monetary regime, what stock market breadth is signaling as well as key risks to the current bull market and economic recovery.…

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Nick Langley, Portfolio Manager at ClearBridge Investments, who has spent a career investing in the infrastruct…

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Sophie Monsour and Rob Morrison of Barwon Investment Partners. In a wide ranging conversation we cover everythi…

ClearBridge Portfolio Analyst Erica Furfaro and Portfolio Manager Mike Kagan assess the dominance of Netflix in the streaming industry and how other media companies are utilizing streaming for growth as well as provide an overview of the opportunities and privacy challenges facing the leadership names in digital advertising.…

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Mark Smith, of NEO Super, who is best described as an SMSF ‘lifer’. Mark has been involved in the SMSF sector f…

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Simon Redman of Invesco Global Real Estate. In this session we focus on the role of commercial property within …

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Qiao Ma, Portfolio Manager of the Cooper Investors Asian Equities Fund. China has been at the centre of headlin…

ClearBridge's Nick Langley breaks down current inflation signs, including climate-related inflation, and how listed infrastructure is positioned.ClearBridge Investments

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with Andrew Lockhart, the founder of multibillion non-bank lender Metrics Credit Partners. In this session we focus …

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different tack, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session we speak with the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, Professor William Mitchell. In a wide ranging discussion we discuss what…

As a change of pace in our third season, we will be taking a slightly different track, discussing some of the biggest issues and concerns facing investors today, but with a particular tilt towards retirement. For this session, we are speaking with Dushko Bajic, of First Sentier. At Wattle we summarise investing quite simply, being I + G = R, or inc…

Jeff Schulze is joined by Senior Energy Analyst Dimitry Dayen and Senior Consumer Staples Analyst Rob Buesing ahead of the 26th U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP26) on climate change to get a better understanding of how the fight against global warming is shaping markets and what role investors can play. They give an update on electric vehicle ad…

ClearBridge Senior Health Care Analysts Marshall Gordon and Nick Wu assess current opportunities in health care as the economy works through the Delta variant and elective procedures continue to come back. During the discussion, they pinpoint promising trends in the areas of diabetes and obesity management, new therapies for rare diseases and innov…

Portfolio Managers Paul Ehrlichman and Grace Su discuss why the changing focus of global monetary policy is supportive of pro-cyclical positioning in the International Value and International Small Cap Strategies, the role of traditional value companies in contributing to global sustainability efforts as well as how the team is navigating a heighte…

For season two of our Market Thinkers series, we focus on identifying and understanding the most powerful, demographic, societal, and technological themes occurring in the global economy right now. Big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and automation. All are central to the digitisation trend but what do they have in common? They all r…

ClearBridge Co-Chief Investment Officer Scott Glasser joins Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze to assess the current state of equity markets and the economy, why the current bull market is likely in its later stages, reasons growth and value stocks should continue to share performance leadership and what risks and opportunities he is monitoring as …

A recent selloff could mark only a temporary setback for a software industry that is positioned to offer some of best revenue and earnings growth going forward.ClearBridge Investments

For season two of our Market Thinkers series, we focus on identifying and understanding the most powerful, demographic, societal, and technological themes occurring in the global economy right now. This session, with Dave Wanis of Longwave capital dives into the fast-evolving world of retail spending, shopping and experiences amid the digital revol…

For season two of our Market Thinkers series, we focus on identifying and understanding the most powerful, demographic, societal, and technological themes occurring in the global economy right now. This session, with Chris Joye of Coolabah Capital, seeks to take stock of the events of 2020 and where everything from interest rates to property prices…

For season two of our Market Thinkers series, we focus on identifying and understanding the most powerful, demographic, societal, and technological themes occurring in the global economy right now. This session, with Nick Griffin of Munro Partners, covers the emerging battleground in technology supremacy, high-performance computing, and semiconduct…

Research analysts Kimberly Gifford and Deepon Nag join host Jeffrey Schulze to discuss how ClearBridge's ESG investment framework aligns with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They explain what the SDGs mean in the context of their fundamental company research and ClearBridge's approach to ESG integration. The role of active managers i…

For season two of our Market Thinkers series, we focus on identifying and understanding the most powerful, demographic, societal and technological themes occurring the global economy right now. This session, with Tobias Bucks and Simon Wood, co-managers of the Ausbil Global Small Cap Fund covers the incredible opportunities emerging in the cleaner …