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White papersMarkets on a roller coaster
“The market response to the Middle East crisis has been driven chiefly by concerns about inflation. This episode reaffirms our view that investors should remain diversified and maintain multiple layers of resilience and quality within portfolios.”
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White papersPrecautionary Liquidity and Worker Decisions: Evidence from French Employee Saving Plans
This paper investigates the demand for precautionary liquidity versus commitment contracts among participants in retirement saving programs by analyzing administrative data from the largest workplace saving plan provider in France, a country in which employers have wide discretion in structuring these plans.
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White papersUnpacking Asia’s 2025 Sustainable Finance Playbook
Asia is stepping up as a focal point for ESG regulation innovation, demonstrated by a market-calibrated approach that is increasingly aligned with international standards.
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White papersMapping the fallout: Iran, oil, and global markets
Macro impact: The Iran conflict and risks to the Strait of Hormuz do not yet warrant a major change to our base case macro outlook. Growth adjustments remain limited, inflation has nudged higher, and central banks are broadly in a wait-and-see mode, with policy rates expected to remain largely stable.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - March 2026
Topic of the month - Mapping the fallout: Iran, oil, and global markets
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WebinarPlayback | How to navigate market volatility sparked by the Iran war?
During this webinar, our experts Vincent Mortier, Group Chief Investment Officer, Monica Defend, Head of Amundi Investment Institute & Chief Strategist, and Silvia Di Silvio, Senior Cross Asset Macro Strategist, Amundi Investment Institute explored likely economic outlooks and the implications for different asset classes in light of recent events in the Middle East and the resulting increase in market volatility.
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White papersOil and gas back in the spotlight
“In the Iran crisis, oil is the key transmission mechanism through which tensions spill over into the global economy: a total disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is the decisive trigger that can turn an energy shock into a broader macroeconomic shock.”
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WebinarPlayback | Implications of US-Israel strikes on Iran
During this webinar, our experts Vincent Mortier, Group Chief Investment Officer, Monica Defend, Head of Amundi Investment Institute & Chief Strategist, and Didier Borowski, Head of Macro Policy Research explored potential scenarios, assessed the outlook for energy markets and inflation, and examined the regional and cross-asset implications for investors.
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White papersFrom Transition to Physical Risk: Rethinking Portfolio Management
Over the past fifteen years, responsible investment has evolved, shifting from broad ESG scores to more granular climate risk management. Transition risk has dominated, with portfolio decarbonization anchored in standardized carbon intensity metrics and, more recently, complemented by measures of green intensity.
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White papersReforms and reflation: unlocking Japanese equity upside
The Japanese equity market has underperformed for many years and has traded at a lower price-to-book (P/B) valuation than global peers. This discount has been warranted because return-on-equity (ROE) has been lower, reflecting an inflated denominator: balance sheets are overly large.
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White papersGeopolitical Risk and Asset Pricing Across Market Regimes
This paper examines how geopolitical risk (GPR) is transmitted across global financial markets by analyzing its effects on equities, sovereign bonds, foreign exchange, and commodities. Moving beyond single-regime and single-dimension approaches, the study adopts a two-regime Markov-switching framework to capture the state-dependent pricing of geopolitical shocks under low- and high-volatility market conditions.
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PodcastFragmented forces shaping the markets - Global Investment views by Outerblue Convictions
As tariffs figures once again hit the headlines, our new episode of Outerblue Convictions measures the feeling in the markets and looks at some of the main drivers over the past few weeks. Swaha Pattanaik speaks to Monica Defend, head of the Amundi Investment Institute, to gauge her reaction to the latest round of tariffs, and whether these impact our investment views.
