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![Equities’ Bull Run Picks Up in January](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/race-track-intro-image-900x350.png)
Rather than slow down, the record-breaking rally in global equities accelerated in the first month of 2018, with little clouding investors’ increasing conviction that the world economy is on firm footing.
![The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/office-buildings-intro-image-900x350.png)
Much of the media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) has been focusing, rightly so, on the fantastic new possibilities enabled by empowered, human-like computers.
![Outlook 2018 IV: the Road to Wider ESG Integration](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nature-lake-intro-image-900x350.jpg)
Somehow ironically, in the year when President Trump announced the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on global warming, more investors turned to climate-aware strategies, helping them outperform.
![First AI-Driven Index Tracking Artificial Intelligence Innovators](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/abstract-tech-intro-image-2_small-900x350.jpg)
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has penetrated most industries and services, with machines now handling an increasing number of tasks that only humans could once do.
![Advancements in AI Open up New Investment Frontiers](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/office-buildings-intro-image-2-900x350.png)
While we tend to think of artificial intelligence (AI) as the future, the truth is the technology has already transformed asset managers’ core business beyond recognition.
![2018 Outlook III: Thematic Investing and Infrastructure](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dam-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
As we reviewed the outlook for equity markets in 2018 in a recent article, UBS highlighted the disruptive trends of digitalization and robotics in its forecast, pointing out that technology stocks may continue their march higher.
![Smart Beta versus Dumb Alpha](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20180117_olivier_webinar_restricted_hands_v4-1-900x350.jpg)
In “An Aussie sense of style”, Axioma’s latest paper on smart beta products, we take a look at the inherent compromise between delivering target factor purity versus maximizing factor exposure.
![2018 Outlook II: Roaring Bull Faces Hurdles](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/light-house-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
After a bumper year for equities, strategists are forecasting further gains for 2018, while pointing to risks from rising bond yields and higher volatility.
![Stocks Wrap Up Vintage Year with December Gains](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Holidays-Intro-Image-900x350.jpg)
Global stock indices extended their record-breaking rally in December to end 2017 with the biggest annual returns since 2013.
![2018 Outlook I: Economic Momentum Continues](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cargo-shipping-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
The synchronized growth witnessed in 2017 is expected to continue this year, according to economists, who say markets can weather the gradual normalization of monetary policy.
![2017 Review: Global Economy and Risk-Taking Steam Ahead – Part II](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NYC-900x350.png)
Despite the Fed’s and the ECB’s divergent trajectories, the dollar fell against the euro to $1.18 in December from $1.05 in January, confounding expectations. At the start of 2017, the average forecast from five banks pointed to the euro ending the year at $1.05.
The post-crisis economic recovery gathered pace in 2017 as the Eurozone and Japan joined the global growth momentum, helping investors push risk assets higher.