All Commentary articles – Page 104
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White papersEmerging Markets Equity: Evolving & Transforming
Technological innovation, an increasingly confident consumer and a growing focus on ESG are re-shaping the long-term growth opportunity in emerging market equities.
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White papersASEAN Equities: “Opportunities in Every Crisis”
Barings’ SooHai Lim discusses the dynamics shaping ASEAN equities today, from lessons learned from the pandemic to the structural trends supporting the region.
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White papersLots of Stimulus, Not Much Inflation
Weak U.S. jobs data fuels debate for further fiscal stimulus but some worry inflation may overshoot the Fed’s target this year. In China, the PBOC is tapering monetary stimulus. In Europe, the Q4 contraction was less severe than initially thought, but the recovery looks delayed.
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White papersThere’s Much More to Tech Investing than the US Market
There are many innovative technology companies outside the US and China that tend to get overlooked.
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White papers‘Cop 26 and The Importance of Net Zero’ Martin Currie - a Franklin Templeton specialist investment manager
Martin Currie: 2021 could prove to be a pivotal year in the fight against climate change and the race towards Net Zero emissions.
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White papersThe Investment Podcast by M&G Investments
As we enter 2021, this podcast examines some of the narratives that have emerged from the real estate sector during 2020 and how much truth there may be to them in the coming year.
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White papersThe Green Transition: Implications of the European Recovery Plan
Despite questions over financing the European Union’s (EU’s) new Green Deal, the green transition is now under way. The implications for bond investors are clear and urgent.
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White papersEuropean Banks’ Resiliency Tested By Covid-19 Pandemic
Franklin Templeton’s David Zahn, Head of European Fixed Income, and Tom Petersson, European Financials Research Analyst, discuss the fundamentals and valuation of the European banking sector and how the sector has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic.
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White papersReal Assets House View
No-one ever said predicting the future was easy, but this report represents our best collective judgement on the current and future investment themes we believe will shape the real assets market.
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White papersChinese New Year: How Investors Might Navigate Markets In The Year Of The Ox
What’s in store in the Year of the Ox—are our portfolio managers bullish, or will the year play out like a bull in a china shop? Read their outlook.
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White papers*Fixed income outlook – From despair to hope*
In the US, reflation on the back of fiscal stimulus and the exit from lockdowns should lead to modestly higher inflation expectations and nominal bond yields.
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White papersWhy we think UK real estate can flourish after the Brexit deal
With some major hurdles likely to fall in 2021, we believe that certain parts of the UK real estate market are at a turning point and set to perform strongly over the next few years.
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White papersOn My Mind: Investment Strategies For A Booster-Shot Recovery
Dr. Sonal Desai shares her investment views and strategies for the post-pandemic recovery.
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White papersFranklin Templeton Investment Solutions: Allocation Views
It seems like global financial markets and economies are experiencing a never-ending fluctuation between increased clarity, as we described in last months’ Allocation Views, and continued uncertainty.
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White papersA not-so-great rotation in developed market equities
Equity investors, quite rightly, remain resolutely focused on the positive, medium-term outlook for corporate profits rather than the near-term economic challenges.
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White papersHow to Sustain Sustainability
With sustainable investment approaches getting more popular across the globe, some investors inevitably question whether they could be potentially compromising the performance of their investments for the sake of good citizenship.
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White papersEU Outlook Brighter, but Watch the News in Rome
Expect answers next week on whether Italy can form a new government. Elsewhere, U.S. earnings are on track to show Q4 growth, illustrating that the recovery remained intact, and risks to China’s outlook have emerged with the resurgence in COVID cases.
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White papersFour Themes for Insurance Asset Management in 2021
Insurers have fared relatively well through the pandemic, but there is likely a long and uneven road to recovery ahead. With this in mind, there are four key themes worth considering for insurance company investors in the months to come.
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White papersThe Circular Edition 1, 2021 - Keeping you in the sustainability loop
Rounding-off a truly (we hope) one-off year, The Circular returns with must-read environmental, social and governance (ESG) news to sustain investors for another quarter and on to 2021… Here we’ve summed up our recent insights on ESG investing to bring you the latest edition of The Circular.
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White papersEM Investment Opportunities for 2021
Global investors are currently dealing with two key challenges: find decent yield for their fixed income portfolios in a world of ultra-low or negative interest rates and access some exposure to growth at a reasonable price. EM market assets may offer some opportunities in addressing these challenges and have the potential, in our view, to outperform other asset classes both in equity and fixed income in 2021.
