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PEI Keynote Interview: Private Markets in Japan Continue to Accelerate
In a keynote interview conducted by PEI, Jonathan Shofet and Yoshi Yagisawa discuss how active primary fund investing and increasing LP appetite for co-investments, secondaries, and direct lending are indicative of Japan’s maturing private market landscape.
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Family Offices 2024: Adjusting to Post-Inflation Markets
Optimizing Family Office portfolios for the road ahead.
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Equity Market Outlook 2Q 2024
Powerful investment themes, such as AI, can capture the market’s collective imagination. Taken to an extreme, however, they can also trigger distortions across and within the markets.
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2024 Proxy Season Preview
No right versus wrong assessment can be applied to proxy voting. Assessing how proxy voting supports the overall investment process is what is most important. Rather than seeking to influence vote outcomes, the market should focus on influencing how investors use the proxy vote in the context of the investment objectives it seeks to achieve on behalf of clients.
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Q1 2024 CIO Review and Outlook
CIO Sean Taylor says macro uncertainty may moderate in the coming months, placing greater importance on active investing for generating alpha in emerging markets.
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Six reasons to consider an unconstrained approach to credit
After two years in deep freeze, appetite for risk in fixed income has begun once more to flow. In this update, we identify six reasons why an unconstrained credit approach may make sense from here.
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The Challenge of Active Engagement in a World of Passive Ownership
In an exclusive interview with the Global Investment Institute, Jonathan Bailey Managing Director and Global Head of ESG & Impact Investing shares the areas of focus driving his team’s research agenda and addresses his thoughts on the implications of the upcoming US Presidential election on the Inflation Reduction Act, the role for active engagement and how to measure companies’ true progress towards reducing real world emissions.
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Talking Markets – European Opportunities
Join Jonathan Willocks, for this episode of Talking Markets, where Thomas Brown, Fund Manager of Premier Miton European Opportunities Fund, discusses the European equities landscape, investing in undiscovered gems, and navigating sectors like luxury goods and AI amidst market shifts.
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How to build a cross-asset value factor
MARS, our Multi-Asset Research Series, focuses on complex topics in the realm of multi asset to bring quantitative investment research back to Earth. This fifth edition addresses some of the complexities of forming a value strategy.
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Dispelling 3 myths about the small-size effect in equities
As a factor, size is widely understood by equity investors and is often a feature of portfolio construction. With mega caps continuing to dominate market returns, we assess the track record of the small-size factor and dispel three myths that challenge its relevance in today’s environment.
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CIO views: finding value through patient investing
How and where can patience reward investors? Over time, how could patient investors find better value? Across asset classes, our CIOs seek out areas they believe are underestimated or mispriced by the market and could offer superior prospects to investors adopting a long-term approach.
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Hard and local currency bonds provide different routes to returns
Emerging market (EM) bonds are increasingly becoming a strategic holding for many investors but a key consideration in this is the different attributes of hard- and local currency-denominated bonds — the two broad sets of investments available in the asset class — and understanding the benefits each can bring to a portfolio.
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Ready for a deluge of new high-yield issuance?
US high-yield issuers are likely to refinance their pandemic-era debt and potentially benefit from lower interest rates in the next two years. The US Federal Reserve’s pause in rate hikes, the market’s expectations of rate cuts and the increase in mergers and acquisitions may incentivize high-yield issuers to come to market sooner rather than later, according to Glenn Voyles.
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The Credit Opportunity in M&A
In an environment of tight spreads and low volatility, we believe the reemergence of mergers and acquisitions can be a source of idiosyncratic alpha in credit markets.
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Postcard from India
Fiona Manning, co-fund manager of the Premier Miton Emerging Markets Sustainable Fund, hits the road and shares notes from the team’s company research trip to India.
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Fiorino: Where physics meets finance
Fiorino visits Switzerland to uncover the hidden links between the most successful particle physics theory to date and the ongoing Basel bank capital risk management experiment (now in version IV)…
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Where does Europe have the edge in technology?
In this video insight, Fidel Manolopoulos, Co-Head of EMEA, Private Equity, discusses the outlook for technology companies in Europe at the present time.
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Have higher rates made private equity trickier to do?
In our latest video insight, Elias Korosis, Partner, Private Equity, discusses the impact of higher rates on the private equity industry and outlines Federated Hermes’ approach.