Every quarter, MSCI’s index rebalancing announcements offer a potential windfall to traders who take positions in added or deleted stocks. A Risky Finance visualisation shows how it works.

Two new visualisations show how AI transformed the S&P 500, and will continue to do so in the future.

Bonds issued by Atos and Thames Water are trading at distressed levels as investors prepare for a changed climate after the UK election.

The top-heaviness of the S&P 500 index has a quality all of its own, with tech companies rivalling nation states.

How costly are unfunded public sector defined benefit pensions? The question looms large in the economic future of the UK.

How have the world’s biggest corporate borrowers changed since 2016?

The seven biggest money market funds used the Fed’s overnight repo facility to help boost their assets by 50% in just 18 months, while bank deposits have plunged. Now, with quantitative tightening, their strategy is changing.

Our corporate bond tool shows that dollar-denominated Chinese real estate bonds are collectively worth just 12% of their total value two years ago. By analysing iBoxx departures and distressed prices, we firm up this analysis and look at the wider implications for China’s troubled economy.

BP’s pension scheme was once a leading stakeholder in UK companies, but now it’s been ‘de-risked’ and may soon be hived off to an insurer. The story encapsulates the slow decline of Britain’s private sector defined benefit pension system.

High interest rates were a dampener on corporate borrowing but now the trend has reversed, led by two sectors with their own inflationary characteristics.