Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Investors are facing a risk most of them have never seen in their lifetimes -- a major crossborder war in Europe -- and that’s wreaking havoc across financial markets. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Risk appetite is surging again in markets

The move back into risk is a stunning turnaround from September, when a record percentage of global fund managers were underweight equity allocations.

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27 Nov 2022, 5:39 pm

By Denitsa Tsekova

(Bloomberg) — Under the surface of one of the quietest weeks on Wall Street all year, some money managers are renewing speculative bets, hoping against hope that a more friendly — or at least less-hostile — Fed, is back in their corner.

Sure, they're getting ready to close out the worst year since the financial crisis. But a plucky optimism remains, and it's showing up across a range of assets. A rush to corporate credit is favoring the riskier edges of the market, with junk bonds drawing their biggest passive inflows on record. Equity exposure among quants has turned positive and that of active fund managers is back near long-term averages. The inflation bid is crumbling, with the dollar heading for its steepest monthly decline since 2009 and benchmark Treasury yields down 30 basis points in November.

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