All Commentary articles – Page 27
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White papers2024 midyear outlook: Widening cracks in the investment landscape
“Step on a crack, break your mother’s back” conjures up images of children playfully jumping over gaps between sidewalk squares. As grownups, we can indulge such youthful superstitions as harmless. As investors, however, we recognize the very real risks posed by fissures and fault lines in the economic terrain — and the need to navigate them successfully. This is the challenge we’re facing midway through 2024.
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White papersBest ideas across asset classes
A combination of global economic resilience and strong corporate earnings has propelled equity markets higher over the first half of 2024. This upward move has been accompanied by less favorable valuations, which (combined with uncertainty surrounding central bank policy) leads us to stick with a neutral view toward global stock markets.
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White papers2024 midyear outlook: Portfolio construction themes
Navigating today’s investment landscape has become tougher, as widening cracks in the economy present tripping hazards or cause investors to stray from their long-term path.
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White papersArtificial intelligence and investing: it’s all about the data
Teaching machines how to ‘think’ has been a tantalizing goal since the early days of computing, and recent advances in generative AI have brought us closer to achieving it. However, whether AI-generated ‘buy/sell/hold’ signals can be used for investing is partly a question of whether the value outweighs the risk.
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White papersEuropean real estate: from headwinds to tailwind
After a tough couple of years, European real estate stands out as one of the few asset classes where valuations aren’t sky high. With fundamentals improving, this creates an attractive investment opportunity.
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White papersToday’s healthcare treatment, tomorrow’s healthcare innovation
While treatments for obesity have dominated the healthcare investment narrative over the past 18 months, they are by no means the only secular growth story. We see the life sciences industry as well positioned to benefit from structural trends.
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White papersPrompting AI: Can Better Conversations Drive Better Investment Research?
A richer dialogue between human experts and large language models may improve outcomes.
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White papersInvestment Perspectives Mid-Year 2024 Outlook: Descent from the peak
Where could investors discover opportunities as we approach the descent from peak interest rates? At the mid-way point of 2024, our CIOs and investment teams across Equities and Multi-Asset, Fixed Income and Private Markets bring you their views on the current investment landscape, look beyond the ‘noise’ and map the potential routes for success amid heightened volatility.
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White papersMidyear Outlook 2024: the new reality of investing
2024 so far has been a year of diverging economies, equity market highs and election fever – with far more to come.
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White papersFive Structural Themes Driving Real Estate Investment
Commercial real estate demand and performance are driven by cyclical and structural factors. Cyclical factors, such as interest rates, consumer spending and employment, vary with economic cycles.
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White papersEconomic Monthly: Strength or Softness?
Consumers have still not run out of runway. Despite having burned through the famous “excess savings” from pandemic-era stimulus, and despite a softer labor market, we continue to see consumers willing and able to spend. As we elaborate below, continued credit availability, investment spending and the labor market provide enough space for households to maintain their spending habits for the next several months.
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VideoFixed-income outlook: Shifting opportunities for bond investors
You don’t need interest rates to go down to succeed in fixed income, but you do need to look closely to find relative value.
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Asset Manager NewsInfranity (Generali Investments) Breaks Through €10 Billion Mark in Assets Under Management, powered by unique business model.
Infranity, a leading European infrastructure investment platform and part of Generali Investments, today announces it has surpassed €10 billion in Assets Under Management.
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White papersThe Importance of Active Ownership
Shareholder engagement is for life, not just for proxy-voting season.
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White papersWill Productivity turn global growth around?
“If these trends continue, global growth over the next decade would likely be sub-3%, compared to just under 4% in the two decades before the pandemic.”
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White papersPM Corner: Infrastructure debt in a sweet spot for 2024
Private infrastructure had a challenging 2023. After a record fundraising year in 2022, we reported in our Infrastructure Outlook 2024 overall funds raised in 2023 fell by over 50%.
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White papersIt All Rests on Infrastructure
We see the asset class underpinning several key growth megatrends, but also the return of “big government” and its pursuit of security and protectionism.
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White papersIndia’s election outcome and its economic implications
India has recently concluded a national election, one which has taken place over the past six weeks and has seen nearly 650 million people flock to the polls to elect India’s political leadership over the next five years. The country officially announced its elections results on 4 June, the turnout was quite high with 66.3% of voters participating.
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VideoIdentifying real estate opportunities in a higher rate environment
Watch the full video now at the link below
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White papersRedefining real assets: Megatrends and their impact on investment strategies
Demand for real assets is underpinned by megatrends which persist throughout market cycles, allowing investors to develop forward-looking investment strategies with confidence. These long-term, structural changes increasingly drive the demand and supply of real assets – natural capital, real estate and infrastructure.
