Outlook 2026 Webinar: Quantifying risk in an unprecedented market

Watch this interactive global discussion with the Investment Decision Research team that goes beyond traditional 2026 market outlooks. Markets have reached new highs despite political upheaval, tariff tensions, and shifting central bank policies – a disconnect that makes identifying the right risk factors more critical than ever.

This webinar is a dynamic Q&A session where our experts discuss how potential economic scenarios will impact markets and therefore reveal what matters for your 2026 portfolio positioning.

Asset managers, asset owners and wealth managers will learn about:

• Factor-based approaches for measuring risk when political uncertainty dominates
• How our analysts approach performance attribution against the current risk regime
• Quantitative frameworks for known and unknown unknowns across regions – that even fundamental managers can use
• The importance of stress testing in understanding the impact of changes in economic variables across the total portfolio

In this session the panelists answered a broad range of questions including:

• What factors have shown outperformance in 2025?
• Is the 60-40 portfolio dead?  
• How has recent geopolitical risk affected investor sentiment and behavior?  
• Has the dollar lost its safe-haven status during periods of uncertainty?  
• Is gold now the only refuge for geopolitical risk?  
• How can the disconnect between high uncertainty and low volatility be explained?