18 mid-year outlooks to help you navigate the next six months

The work doesn’t stop at EOFY. We’ve pulled together 18 mid-year outlooks to help you make sense of what comes next.
Keith Ford

Livewire Markets

The end of the financial year often feels like a finish line. All of the planning and the flurry of last minute activity that inevitably takes place is met not with a holiday break like the end of a calendar year, but instead with more of the same.

Taking the place of checklists to get ready for EOFY are… checklists for what to do in the new financial year.

Right at the top of that list should be understanding the lay of the land and how the rest of 2026 is likely to shake out. No one has a crystal ball (don’t believe them if they say otherwise), which means pulling from a diverse range of opinions and expertise is the best way to settle on the path forward for your portfolio.

To help you do just that is this compilation of 18 Australian and global market and economic mid-year outlook statements for the rest of 2026 from the major investment banks, fund managers and ETF providers.

There is a lot of information and sure to be more than a few nuggets of market wisdom buried in the outlooks below, so dive in and see what the experts think will happen over the next six months.

  1. Alliance Bernstein - Multi-Asset Midyear Outlook: Fortitude Amid Disruption
  2. BlackRock - 2026 Midyear Global Outlook, scarcity vs. abundance
  3. ClearBridge - Midyear Outlook: Earnings Buoy Case for International Equities
  4. Fidelity International - Mid-Year Outlook 2026: The shock absorbers
  5. Goldman Sachs - Investment Views from Our CIOs
  6. Impax Asset Management - Mid-Year Equities Outlook 2026
  7. Invesco - 2026 Midyear Investment Outlook: A world disrupted? Resilience endures
  8. Janus Henderson - Market GPS: Investment Outlook Mid-Year 2026
  9. J.P. Morgan Asset Management - Mid-Year Outlook 2026
  10. KKR - The Divergence Conundrum: Mid-Year Outlook for 2026
  11. Lazard Asset Management - Global Mid-Year Outlook 2026
  12. Macquarie Asset Management - 2026 Mid-Year Economic and Market Outlook
  13. Morgan Stanley - 2026 Midyear Investment Outlook: Constructive, Not Complacent
  14. PIMCO - Secular Outlook: Rupture and Resilience
  15. State Street Investment Management - Gold 2026 Midyear Outlook
  16. T. Rowe Price - 2026 Midyear Market Outlook: Five Shifts Reshaping Markets
  17. VanEck - VanEck ViewPoint: Optimism reigns
  18. Vanguard - Mid-Year Investment and Economic Outlook
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Keith Ford
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Livewire Markets

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