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White papersHow SpaceX and AI Spending Are Reshaping Investment Grade Credit
Hyperscalers are coming to the bond market at scale to fund AI spending, and the implications for investment grade credit investors are significant.
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White papersDiversification Reimagined: Fixed income perspectives for a new market regime
After years in which falling inflation, predictable central banks and familiar market dynamics shaped investment decisions, fixed income investors are navigating a more complex landscape. Geopolitical fracturing, persistent inflationary pressures, elevated public debt and shifting currency relationships are challenging long-held assumptions about diversification and the role of traditional safe havens.
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PodcastKnow What You Own: Joe Amato on the AI Rally, Mega-Cap IPOs, and the Hidden Risk in Passive
US equities have proven remarkably resilient this year. Despite the Middle East conflict, energy price pressures, and an uneven global backdrop, the market has powered higher on AI enthusiasm and broad-based earnings growth. But beneath the headline numbers, the questions that matter most are about durability, valuations, and what investors actually own.
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White papersHealthcare Investing: Finding Growth Beyond Pharmaceuticals
Equity investors should cast a wide net to capture the healthcare sector’s full potential.
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White papersFor DC Savers, Better Returns May Translate into Longer-Lasting Income
For defined contribution (DC) plan participants, the ability to improve investment returns may make a sizable difference over time—a difference that may translate into more effective wealth building and more years of income in retirement.
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White papersThe Full Picture: How Factors Work Together in Systematic Fixed Income
Systematic fixed-income investing is an active approach that aims to beat market returns by identifying and harnessing the factors that drive bond performance.
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White papersMonetising AI: Driving innovation and multiple investment opportunities
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to large-scale deployment and a tangible revenue driver across an ever-broadening range of industries.
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White papersBond Portfolio Optimization
Although bond portfolio optimization is one of the oldest applications of the mean-variance framework, it is considerably less developed and adopted than its equity and multi-asset counterparts. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for bond portfolio optimization applied to investment universes composed of individual securities.
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White papersREIT Market Perspectives - a REIT reawakening
A strong market rotation into listed REITs to start 2026 is prompting renewed investor interest in an asset class that has been overshadowed by artificial intelligence (AI) and private markets in recent years. With durable cash flows, improving fundamentals…
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White papersChina: Late to the AI sprint, strong in the marathon
In today’s global artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the US leads in frontier models and accelerator design, Taiwan manufactures the most advanced chips, South Korea supplies high-bandwidth memory, and investors crowd into the most obvious winners. China — constrained by export controls and short of leading-edge semiconductors — is often seen as the laggard. That narrative is too simple. It may also be wrong.
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White papersPrivate credit is not a monolith
Understanding dispersion across assets, vehicles, and leverage
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White papers2025 Engagement Report: continuing to drive long-term value through stewardship
Stewardship has been at the core of our Responsible Investment approach since our inception and is now firmly established as a central pillar of our 2025-2028 Climate Strategy.
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White papers2025 Engagement Brief - June 2026
Through our stewardship activities, Amundi is seeking to have a tangible impact on the economy, as we truly believe that active ownership can trigger stronger outcomes than divestment in general. As a manager of portfolios, diversified by nature, we need to consider the risks and impacts affecting the global economy as these are the main drivers of the value of our portfolios.
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White papersPrivate biotech investing deep dive
Private biotech sits apart from traditional venture capital and growth equity for three key reasons. First, the potential for value creation is driven by clinical inflection points (scientific derisking) instead of revenue growth or operating scale. Second, outcomes at key readouts are often binary rather than incremental, producing wider dispersion. Finally, as private biotech companies are generally pre-revenue, they remain capital-dependent throughout their life cycle.
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White papersU.S. at 250: What Five Decades of Market History Tell Us About Investing Today
In investing, as in history, the long view tends to reward those patient enough to hold it.
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White papersThe Red Thread: Alts’ tenacity, tested once more
Our semi-annual insights into alternatives, Edition June 2026
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White papersThematic Equity Investing in a World of Disruption and Realignment
The evolving nature of disruption is creating new innovators and market leaders.
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White papersIt’s Time to Take Another Look at Core Fixed Income
In a higher-yield, volatile rate environment, core fixed income once again plays a central role in portfolios. In the current investment environment, core fixed income may provide attractive income, the potential for price appreciation, a focus on capital preservation and a valuable offset to the risk of more volatile assets such as equities.
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PodcastCheaper, smarter and ever broader uses: AI offers a long growth runway
Artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to get smarter and cheaper, spurring adoption and expanding the total addressable market. Pamela Hegarty and Derek Glynn, Co-portfolio Managers of BNPP AM’s disruptive technology strategy provide Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, with their expert views of the current AI industry and its investment potential, not least in supporting both training and inferencing applications.
