All Asset allocation articles – Page 14
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White papersBolstering Asset Allocation Defenses Against COVID-19
The surge of the coronavirus omicron variant has implications not only for broader asset-class allocations but also for macro exposures within asset classes. We believe that modestly capping exposure to certain COVID-19-sensitive assets can enhance risk management.
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PodcastAll the Credit - Episode 23
Despite the wildly unique ride that was 2021, which saw a boom in economic growth in most countries, a global inflation surge, and COVID’s constant and pervasive presence, the path of the global economy and financial markets may have been more predictable a year ago than they are today.
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White papersFour insurance portfolio allocation themes for 2022 and beyond
In today’s investment landscape, how can insurers effectively construct investment portfolios to achieve their targets and balance a range of unique requirements? This paper looks at four allocation themes we believe are most relevant to insurance portfolios.
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White papersAsset allocation – A fat (real) tail in 2022
2021 was an awkward ’steady state’ year for financial markets: bonds delivered the worst returns in a quarter of a century except for one year (1999), while equities secured top-quartile (or better) returns over the same period.[1]
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White papersMarket Scenarios and Risks - January 2022
We are making no change to the narrative and the probabilities of the scenarios. The central scenario assumes that Covid will become endemic with multiple, albeit manageable waves, that fiscal levers will remain significant and tied to monetary policy, and that growth will come back to potential in 2023. We assume the Omicron variant will temporarily impact the recovery in Europe.
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White papersOutlook 2022
The heads of our investment platforms welcome the New Year with their views for 2022.
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White papersWhere are the opportunities in private equity?
It’s been a bumper period of performance - across the card - for private equity. Our experts explain why returns been so strong and offer their views on what comes next.
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White papersOutlook 2022 - Bye-bye beta
Despite a fifth coronavirus wave rising as we enter the third year of the pandemic, there are reasons to be optimistic for the economic recovery, explain the Generali Insurance Asset Management Macro Research Team. In fact, a global 60-40 portfolio would have risen nearly 40% since the lows of March 2020.
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White papersGlobal Insights Outlook 2022: Past The Peak
Heading into 2022, investors face an entirely new set of challenges than they did at this time last year. Global growth has likely plateaued, central banks are starting to remove stimulative support, and for the first time in nearly three decades, portfolios are facing inflationary pressures brought on by supply shortages.
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White papersRevisiting the Term Premium Status
After detailing our findings about the persistently positive term-risk premium across developed market yield curves and how it can affect pension plans’ funded status several years ago, we’re revisiting the topic amid the considerable improvement in plans’ funded status and the corresponding implications for their fixed income allocations.
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White papersRecovery, risks and relationships
While interest rates are likely to creep up in the short term, the long-term structural impacts that have kept rates so low for so long are still in place.
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White papersFixed income outlook: Is the market overly hawkish?
After the bond bear market of 2021, valuations look more attractive in an environment where interest rate rises may already be priced in.
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White papersLiquidity Stress Testing in Asset Management - Part 4. A Step-by-step Practical Guide
This article is part of a comprehensive research project on liquidity risk in asset management, which can be divided into three dimensions.
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White papersMarket Scenarios and Risks - December 2021
We change the narrative and the probabilities of the scenarios in line with our 2022 Outlook. The central scenario assumes that Covid becomes endemic with multiple waves albeit manageable, fiscal levers remain significant and tied to monetary policy and growth comes back to potential in 2023.a
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Research Report2022 outlook: Slower. But still pretty fast.
The current economic cycle isn’t ending, but conditions are getting more difficult and returns are going to be tougher to come by.
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White papersRevolution on the horizon: will the Dutch pension system still set the bar for sustainability, adequacy and integrity?
Despite the seismic demographic, economic and regulatory shifts that have challenged many other pension systems over the past couple of decades, the Netherlands’ three-pillar pension system, introduced in the 1950s, remains uniquely generous in many respects, with collectivity and intergenerational risk sharing central to the system’s ethos.
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White papersDB plans in their End Game in the post-pandemic era
An inopportune toxic confluence of three unrelated forces has badly undermined the finances of employer-sponsored defined benefit pension plans, in which employers bear most of the risks involved in providing decent retirement pensions to their employees.
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White papersGraph Neural Networks for Asset Management
In this research article, Amundi Quantitative Research explores the use of graph theory and neural networks in asset management. In particular, they show how new alternative data such as supply chain databases require new tools to fully exploit this information.
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VideoBeyond Headline Multiples: US Equities webcast, November 2021
Join Mark Sherlock, Henry Biddle and Steve Chiavarone for the latest webcast on Federated Hermes US SMID.
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White papersThe next phase for private credit markets
The resilience and adaptability of the asset class during the ongoing pandemic has helped to cement private credit’s permanence in the minds of strategic asset allocators.
