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Asset Manager NewsGlobal Sustainable Outcomes - News & Views Q1 2020
This quarter has marked the end of the longest bull market in history after a decade-long recovery since the global financial crisis. Entering 2020, nobody would have predicted the “black swan” event that was to come, providing a lethal shot to both the financial markets and global economies.
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Investment grade: how cheap are credit spreads?
Between the middle of February and late March there was one of the most severe periods of poor performance from risk markets in general, and from investment grade credit in particular. This was in response to the Covid-19 crisis and was marked by both the speed and extent of the spread widening
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European equities – the best option for resilient income
With bond markets offering little in the way of income, the continent’s highest quality equities offer an attractive and defensive yield
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Pharmaceutical companies in a golden age for drug discovery
As new technologies such as genomics spur development of innovative drugs, European pharmaceuticals companies stand out as high-quality, defensive growth stocks
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Europe’s manufacturers are in good shape for a downturn
After reorganising themselves over the past 10 years, many European manufacturers have more flexible business models with higher returns
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Covid-19: a pandemic with no precedent in a modern economy
The good-news stories and optimism of three months ago have been consigned to the bin, as the virus, lockdowns and economic bailouts take centre stage.
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Pastures new: Asset Liability Management in today’s reporting environment
The methods that insurers use to report profit to shareholders and solvency to regulators have been changing. This is the result of new accounting standards and solvency capital regulation in many markets.
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Investment grade credit: how cheap are credit spreads?
From the middle of February to late March was one of the worst periods of performance for risk markets in general and for investment grade (IG) credit in particular. This was in response to the Covid-19 crisis and was marked by both the speed and extent of the spread widening.
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Bond investing in uncertain times – stay invested
The economic impact of Covid-19 will be significant in the near term but will take time to show up in the standard economic dataset. The response of fiscal and monetary policy is critical to stabilising financial conditions and instilling confidence.
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Coronavirus market volatility: performance update
Markets are very weak and volatile, as you would expect with such uncertainty around the Covid- 19 outbreak. Some days the moves are indiscriminate and everything plunges to a broadly similar degree, on other days our higher quality names are outperforming. As markets have slumped, and governments and central banks have tried to make sense of what is going on, our portfolios have so far coped very well. Companies that are operationally impacted – restaurants, airlines etc – are seeing severe weakness.
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Global equities: market volatility update
Concerns around coronavirus have been felt in global equity markets for more than a month now. However, things escalated last week, with the steep sell-off in oil further compounding fear around the recessionary impact of the virus.
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Asset allocation update: credit upgraded amid fluid and uncertain backdrop
The ultimate public health costs and economic impact of Covid-19 are at this time unknown. Public health responses have weighed the human cost of intensive care units being overwhelmed and the number of preventable deaths exploding against the jump higher in unemployment, collapse in investment and demand destruction attached to social distancing. Governments have, understandably, chosen life over wealth.
