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White papersFriendvesting: the new architecture of investment in a fractured world
For decades, institutional investors constructed global portfolios with a primary focus on economic fundamentals-growth prospects, sectoral trends, and market efficiency. Geography mattered, but mainly as a source of diversification: emerging versus developed markets, Asia versus Europe. Geopolitics, when considered at all, was the preserve of sovereign wealth funds and the occasional risk manager. That era has ended.
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White papersHow Factor Investing Is Changing: Three Structural Shifts
Factor investing has long been a cornerstone of systematic portfolio construction, particularly within the ETF ecosystem. In European UCITS ETFs, its relevance has grown significantly: factor ETF assets have reached over USD 80 billion and have now surpassed those in sector ETFs, signalling a structural change in investor behaviour. Still, they represent only about 5% of the overall UCITS market . A key driver behind this trend is the rise of equal-weighted investment strategies, which have become a simple and efficient tool for investors to navigate current market challenges, now accounting for roughly a quarter of all factor allocations.
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White papersHow Beta Investors Keep Alpha Under Control
Active ETFs are redefining the parameters of modern portfolio construction, offering solutions to the challenges faced by institutional investors. While it is easy to get lost in the rapidly expanding array of active ETFs, when investing in them European institutional investors have remained firmly anchored near core allocations around established benchmarks such as MSCI World and Europe.
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White papersNavigating the climate index jungle
The need to understand Climate benchmarks and their personalities
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White papersDegrees of climate investing: decarbonisation on paper and in practice
Over the past years, sustainability considerations have permeated the investing space. While traditionally utilised for risk reduction, ESG investing has evolved to not only consider exclusion-based approaches but covers many different areas of sustainability and strategies to translate these into portfolio construction. As almost 90% of global emissions are covered under net zero targets, also a growing number of investors wish to specifically focus on climate in their investments.
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White papersThe Great Reallocation and what it means for fixed income investors
“Income is back in fixed income” – If there was a contest for the catchphrase of the year 2022, this one would certainly be a hopeful contender as it captures the essence of market evolution. The fixed income space has undergone a significant transformation and reallocation implications reverberate into 2023. This has resulted in a year-to-date influx of USD 87bn in global fixed income ETFs.
Latest from Real Assets & IPE
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NewsDWS Pan European Infrastructure III fund closes at €3bn
Pan European Infrastructure Fund III closes with more than 70 investors
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NewsDWS launches open-ended real estate fund
DWS has launched an open-ended real estate fund to target residential and living sector assets in Europe.
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Los Angeles Fire and Police puts $120m into industrial funds
LAFPP puts $80m into RREEF Core Plus Industrial Fund and $40m into Exeter Europe Logistics Value IV
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NewsTennessee Consolidated backs JP Morgan residential development fund
TCRS says the JP Morgan Sunbelt Residential Development Fund is planning to raise $500m
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NewsDWS invests €80m in Spanish BTR development
DWS is buying 210 affordable homes development from developer Culmia
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DWS snaps up Barcelona office tower in €128m deal
Värde Partners agrees sale of One Parc Central office development
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Special Report
The market: Transatlantic invasion
The Americans are coming! But unlike the US cavalry providing an 11th-hour rescue in the last reel of an old-time Western, these Americans are moving in on what they hope will be a lucrative European ETF market
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China Life acquires Xiwang Tower from Deutsche AM
Sale price was undisclosed, but as at March last year the building was listed at €162.2m
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Deutsche AM to manage German pension fund's €1bn property portfolio
The portfolio consists of 16 properties in 10 countries across
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