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Q1 2026 HOUSE REPORT
LOOSE MONEY HARD POWER
Fresh into 2026, our latest House Report explores the themes shaping the months ahead, from the resilience of risk assets amid geopolitical tension and renewed Trump-era unpredictability, to the risks around elevated AI valuations and the payback from data-centre investment.
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Investment insights: our commitment to stewardship
At Sarasin, engaged stewardship has long been at the heart of our global, thematic approach to investing. In the latest in our Investment Insights video, Natasha Landell-Mills, Head of Stewardship, and Julia Shatikova, Ownership Lead, talk though how we work as long-term stewards of our clients’ assets. The...
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Six minute strategy: Loose money, hard power
After what had been an almost uninterrupted bull run across global equity markets following President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ speech on 2 April, markets have finally paused for breath.
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Banking regulation: rhetoric versus reality
Bank regulation is being revisited, particularly in the US, but this is more refinement than deregulation. Basel 3 is still set to push capital requirements higher, and any changes are unlikely to significantly lift bank lending. Meanwhile, higher post-Covid interest rates and resilient credit quality have driven record or near-record profitability across much of the sector.
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Accountability in action
Following proxy season, the stewardship team turned its attention in the final quarter of the year to writing to Chairs or Senior Independent Directors of our key engagement priorities to explain our votes and set out key expectations for the year ahead. We sent over 50 post-proxy letters...
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Loose money, hard power
The past 12 months have delivered an extraordinary sequence of geopolitical shocks, many of them coming directly or indirectly from the Trump White House. They began in April last year...
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Market regimes, and why they matter
At Sarasin, a key part of how we assess investment opportunities – particularly within equities – is through the lens of market regimes...
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