All Asset allocation articles – Page 10
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What’s in Store for European Insurance Investors in 2023?
European insurance investors enter 2023 in healthy shape but face a less-than-stellar macro environment and regulatory change. It will take selectivity and flexibility to tap opportunities.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - March 2023
European equities are favoured in a fragile earnings outlook
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Notes from the Road: Inflation, Private Assets and a Cautious Consensus
The beginning of the year always offers a chance to catch up with a broad range of clients who are in the mode of thinking about the big picture outlook: pension funds, insurers, consultants and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. This note reflects on the key issues that clients have wanted to talk about in the early months of this year. Collectively, these topics give us a picture of what’s on investors’ minds.
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Setting the tone: Private Equity International interview with Markus Benzler
Co-investment will continue to play a crucial role in PE despite the present macro environment, says Markus Benzler, head of multi-managers private equity at UBS Asset Management
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Factoring Next-Gen Inflation Resilience into Multi-Asset Strategies
In a changing world, multi-asset strategies need to evolve, especially when building inflation resilience, because tomorrow’s price pressures will likely look very different from today’s. Not only must inflation defenses be diversified, they should also be innovative.
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*Allocating to private assets in open-ended funds*
Private assets such as private equity and private debt have come to the fore as a viable alternative for investors looking for returns that were not available in public markets. Investing in private assets may involve concessions on the liquidity of the investments, but their illiquidity premium and the breadth of the asset class can be seen as offsetting factors.
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Non-Investment Grade Defaults: Up From the Lows, but Contained
With defaults rising off of all-time lows, but likely remaining well below recession norms, we remain constructive on high yield and non-investment grade credit.
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Activating Equity Portfolios for Higher Rates and Inflation
Passive equity investing has retained its dominance and outflows from active portfolios have continued amid the market and macro shocks of the past year. But in a world of structurally higher inflation and interest rates, there are good reasons for equity investors to consider active portfolios for equity allocations.
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Multi-asset Allocation Views: The mood music changes
The Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team continue to anticipate that the cumulative effect of monetary policy tightening will have a dampening effect on economic activity.
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Insurance Asset Allocation in the New Regime
After a year in which fixed income yields and capital market assumptions adjusted dramatically to a new regime, we believe it’s an opportune time to re-think insurance asset allocation.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - February 2023
Uncertainty over growth, inflation and corporate earnings persists, even though there has been a mild improvement on the economic front. These trends underscore the need to be active and well diversified.
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60/40 portfolios: end of the road?
Multi-asset investors face an inevitable question after an historic, and painful, year for equities and fixed income: has the 60/40 portfolio run out of road?
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What to look for when allocating assets in 2023
Listen to our quarterly asset allocation podcast with global head of multi-asset Maya Bhandari and chief market strategist Daniel Morris. They review the four key determinants of financial market behavior this year and the investment opportunities that follow from that assessment for the main asset classes.
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Practical Implications of the New Regime
You’ve pinned down your economic and market outlook, but what does it imply for your investment strategy—and how much of that is realistic?
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Market Perspectives: Divergent perspectives February 2023
‘Market Perspectives’ provide our monthly macro & market outlook and investment recommendations
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Multi-asset allocation in anticipation of a soft-landing
The performance of both equities and bonds in 2022 tested the resilience of multi-asset strategies and suggested it might be time to rethink how portfolios are structured. This quarterly edition of Simply put questions claims that the 60/40 portfolio is dead and examines whether the unfolding global recession is likely to result in a soft or a hard landing.
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Asset Allocation Committee Outlook: 1Q 2023
Neuberger Berman’s Asset Allocation Committee meets every quarter to poll its members on their outlook for the next 12 months on each of the asset classes noted and, through debate and discussion, to refine our market outlook. The panel covers the gamut of investments and markets, bringing together diverse industry knowledge, with an average of 30 years of experience.
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When Factors Rhymed
It’s been said that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” We believe 2022’s factor performance rhymes with several periods in recent history. What message does that send to investors?
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Multi-Asset Allocation Views: Is the growth pause discounted already?
The Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team believes many developed economies will experience a recession in the coming year as signs of an economic slowdown have been building for a while.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - January 2023
An economic backdrop characterized by high risk of policy mistakes and strong regional divergences calls for a prudent stance in risk assets, especially now that markets are priced for perfection, leaving little room for any negative surprise.