Jim O’Neill, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, suggests that the market pessimists might be wrong this year.

Financial Times, review of ETF prospects.

Rebecca Christie, a non-resident fellow at the Brussels-based Bruegel think tank and Brussels columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, provides a look at European sovereign debt.

Bloomberg explains why it thinks corporate bonds will perform well in 2023.

Larry Light, a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Forbes. An opinion piece on what will push bond performance in 2023.

Financial Times. “Private markets are more likely to deflate than implode in 2023”. A look at what may happen in private markets in 2023.

PwC Private Equity Outlook for 2023.

Gita Gopinath and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas of the IMF give their opinions on what is driving US dollar growth and what countries can do.

Mark Sobel, US Chair of OMFIF, reviews the factors that may cause the USD to decline.

Sir Adam Thomson, former UK Ambassador to NATO, the UN, Pakistan and former senior UK rep to Moscow, Washington, New Delhi; Meral Karasulu, Invesco Director of FI Research; and Arnab Das, Invesco Global Macro Strategist,collaborated to pull together this deep dive on scenarios, macro and market implications of the Russia/Ukraine crisis. They explore the motivations behind the crisis, how further realignment in the balance of power and geopolitical / geo-economic relations in the world may occur over the longer term, and how developed and emerging markets economies will shift policies in confronting risk.

Financial Times, A look at brightening sentiment for Emerging Markets in 2023

Nikhil Sanghani, Managing Director, Research, OMFIF, highlights restrictive policies, debt concerns for some countries, and political risks rising due to elections.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

S&P Global’s view on metals.

The US Energy Information Administration’s latest outlook for oil markets.

The IEA (International Energy Association) latest oil market report (December 2022).

This article considers how web3 (blockchain) technologies could help to resolve the problem of balancing security vs privacy.

This article considers how blockchain can increase financial competitiveness and help embed the most complex business logic enhancing trading possibilities.

Lewis McLellan, Editor of the Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF. This article considers the changes that the big crypto players, such as Binance, will need to make in terms of risk management and the return of truly public blockchain models.