All Asset allocation articles – Page 4
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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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White papersReimagining the opportunity: How Total Portfolio Approach could reshape multi asset investing
With traditional rules of thumb of investing becoming less reliable in an increasingly complex global landscape, how are investors tackling the new normal? Fabiana Fedeli, CIO Equities, Multi Asset and Sustainability, explores how large asset owners are increasingly moving towards a Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) and allocating more flexibly and dynamically across asset classes to achieve their investment objectives.
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PodcastFixed income ETFs: Simple, transparent, low-cost beta exposure
Despite trebling in size since 2020, fixed income ETF (exchange-traded fund) assets remain under-bought in Europe. Luca Pagni, Head of Fixed Income ETFs, tells Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, that there is still great growth potential for bond ETFs – for a variety of reasons. They can improve portfolio construction by offering low-cost beta exposure, diversification, faster and simpler execution, and better liquidity than direct bond portfolios.
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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 papersPension Funds Letter 27 - An Age of Empires: Retirement investing through a new era
We’ve entered an era of competing forces. Our systems and societies are being forced to adjust. Alliances and partnerships are changing shape. Power balances are shifting. At the same time demographics, technological advances and climate change are transforming the investment landscape. This year our annual Amundi World Investment Forum asked a question about this new era: Is it an “Age of Empires?”, where power and potential are being remastered into different forms?
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White papersPortfolio construction in an inflationary era
We don’t expect a 2022-style inflation shock, but we recognise that 2026 is no longer a normal inflation environment. In this regime, bonds may be less reliable as an equity hedge and portfolio construction needs broader inflation protection: selective risk assets, carry over duration, real and private assets, commodities and gold.
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White papersRetirement takes centre stage: designing portfolios for long-term outcomes
At this year’s Amundi World Investment Forum, retirement emerged as a major top-of-mind topic across the plenary sessions, breakouts, peer-to-peer discussions and the closing exchanges on the consequences of current trends for investors.
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White papersBeyond the runway: How airports manage through rising jet fuel prices
Amid renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, energy markets remain volatile. Jet fuel is more expensive, airlines are starting to face increased costs, and clients are asking what it means for airport assets. While a potential path to peace may emerge, this does not change the fundamentals of airport operations.
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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 papersInvesting in euro high yield: Key considerations for insurers
Across European insurers’ portfolios, allocations to high-yield public corporate credit remain modest, at around just 2%.
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PodcastMidyear Investment Outlook 2026 – The Power of Endurance by Outerblue Convictions
In a special edition of Outerblue Convictions, Swaha Pattanaik sits down with Monica Defend, Head of the Amundi Investment Institute, to unpack Amundi’s mid-year investment outlook, The Power of Endurance.Against a backdrop of geopolitical shocks, shifting central bank priorities and the continued strength of AI-related trades, the discussion explores why global growth may remain resilient but uneven, with fragile de-escalation abroad and broadening AI adoption continuing to shape the macro and market landscape.
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White papersAsset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026: Staying Pro-Risk in a Broadening AI Cycle
An AI-driven capital spending cycle is gaining speed, spreading across the broader economy and creating a supportive environment for risk assets.
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White papersA record quarter for equities
“Diversification* is paramount as investors start to move away from overcrowded areas, taking profits and making room for new IPOs.”
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White papersPrivate credit is not a monolith
Understanding dispersion across assets, vehicles, and leverage
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - July 2026
Over the last month, central banks have taken an increasingly hawkish turn that has forced markets to start reassessing the AI trade’s remarkable momentum. As inflation continues to rise, policymakers have remained cautious despite positive headlines around a US/Iran ceasefire deal.
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White papersThe IPO market inflection
How a new cohort of large AI-driven companies could reshape liquidity and market structure
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White papers2026 Midyear Multi-Asset Outlook: From AI Promise to Delivery
At the beginning of 2026, we were anticipating a year when market leadership would pivot back to the U.S., given that global growth drivers remained narrowly focused on AI and largely U.S.-based. Taiwan and Korea supply much of the chips that drive AI, and several mega-caps from these two countries have almost single-handedly pulled emerging markets into the winners’ circle.
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White papersA New Investment Playbook for An Unruly World
In a new paper, “A New Investment Playbook for an Unruly World,” MetLife Investment Management outlines how investors may adapt to a shifting global framework, rising geopolitical influence and a more complex, volatile market environment that may be less U.S.-centric.
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White papersRelative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q3 2026
Markets are refocusing on fundamentals as geopolitical noise fades. This Q3 2026 outlook highlights resilient growth, persistent inflation and opportunities in high-quality sectors. Discover where disciplined, income-focused investors can find value.
