All Commentary articles – Page 4
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White papersIs the UK market at a turning point?
Recent developments across private and public markets suggest the UK may be moving toward a period of greater alignment between capital, policy and fundamentals. We reflect on where selective opportunities are beginning to form and what they could signal for long‑term allocators.
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White papersTimberland investment: growing credible impact
Timberland is meeting rising demand for credible nature‑based decarbonization solutions by providing a biologically renewing resource with diversified revenue streams and the potential to generate high‑integrity carbon credits through improved forest management, conservation, and reforestation. Learn how sustainably managed timberland can offer investors stable long‑term returns and measurable climate benefits, backed by Manulife IM’s 40‑year track record and 5.6 million managed acres.
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PodcastThe Great Bond Divergence: Opportunities Across Curves, Countries, and Credit
Global bond markets are starting to diverge again. After years of moving in near lockstep, correlations are breaking down as political and fiscal paths split across regions. The balance for investors is pursuing income, diversification, and flexibility without making an all-or-nothing “sell the U.S.” call.
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White papersThe good news and the bad news
Lowering return expectations even while ’macro’ looks solid.
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White papersInvesting in nature is investing in resilience
Here in the Netherlands, we have enjoyed 80 years of peace, food security and abundance. We’ve become accustomed to it. It’s almost impossible to imagine life without clean water running from our tap or picking up some fresh groceries. But the rapid decline in biodiversity is putting these certainties at risk, making us unnecessarily vulnerable in times of geopolitical instability.
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White papersFixed Income: The Calm Before the Storm?
Fixed income markets have shown relative calm versus other risk assets since the start of the year. That is unlikely to last, creating challenges and opportunities.
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PodcastSustainability agenda – Capital and solutions for real-world issues
Increasingly, investors want to see real-world outcomes resulting from asset managers’ sustainability-related efforts. These could range from engagement and stewardship to ensuring corporate transition plans are credible. Simultaneously, demographic shifts and innovations such as AI are emerging as social investment themes that require capital and solutions to tackle them.
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White papersWhy Today’s Environment Favors Mortgage-Backed Securities
A strong housing market and supportive federal policy could benefit US mortgage-backed securities.
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White papersMaking portfolio optimisation understandable for humans
Outside of the small circle of quantitatively minded portfolio managers, portfolio optimisation remains largely underused in practice because of one big obstacle: optimisers are still seen as black boxes. They help produce the final portfolio, but how the result comes about is a mystery.
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White papers2026 Global Trends and Tactics
Global private real estate markets have shown signs of stabilization, with transaction activity increasing in recent quarters. Nuveen’s Global Trends and Tactics examines the current real estate environment, including recent performance trends across global markets, evolving transaction dynamics as pricing adjusts from prior peak levels, and opportunities in real estate debt markets as capital values and margins shift. This analysis explores both potential opportunities and risks for investors considering real estate allocations in the current environment. Read the full report.
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White papersIlliquidity premia in private debt
Our private markets research team have crunched the Q4 2025 data. They explain how evolving macro conditions are reflected in private debt returns.
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VideoPortfolio Design as Gesamtkunstwerk: The Total Portfolio Approach
In this video I discuss an increasingly important framework for institutional investing: the Total Portfolio Approach, or TPA which is the subject of our latest paper.
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White papersHousing crisis: Understanding the UK residential market gap
The UK residential housing market faces a structurally challenging outlook shaped by a decade of macroeconomic shocks and demographic shifts. Brexit, COVID-19, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have driven inflation and interest rate hikes, with the Bank of England’s rate peaking at 5.25% in 2023. These pressures have eroded affordability, especially in London, where indexed sale and rent prices have nearly doubled since 2010, while real wages for low earners have declined by 9% since 2008.
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White papersAI world of opportunities
Highlights how AI is reshaping global markets, creating investment opportunities across multiple sectors.
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White papersUS high-yield: Embracing credit divergence, unlocking opportunities
The US high-yield bond market has moved up in quality. We believe healthy fundamental and technical factors in 2026 will continue to underpin it in 2026. Carry should again drive returns, but there is likely to be more variety in returns across sectors, credit ratings and bond issuers, writes Jack Stephenson, Investment Specialist for US High-Yield.
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White papersRob Lovelace on the year ahead
As 2026 unfolds, markets are once again climbing a proverbial wall of worry. Trade wars, geopolitical conflicts and fears of a bubble in AI stocks have shaken investor confidence at times, but markets have managed to look past these daunting events and forge ahead. Can this remarkable resilience continue?
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VideoAI optimism, not exuberance
In our latest video, Steven Chiavarone, Deputy CIO of Global Equities, outlines why we see rational optimism – and not irrational exuberance – driving the artificial intelligence (AI) theme. Elsewhere, he revisits our market predictions for the year ahead and shares our latest thinking on the ‘broadening out’ trade.
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Asset Manager NewsNTR and Almac Group agree supply of additional localised clean power from Murley Wind Farm, Northern Ireland
NTR and Almac increase clean volume offtake by over 20% of the project’s production as Almac expands its operations
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White papersGlobal Emerging Markets Equity: Outlook 2026
Emerging markets (EM) outperformed developed markets (DM) last year on the back of a variety of tailwinds. We believe the EM rally has the potential to be prolonged and significant as we outline in this report.
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White papersChina: The year of the fire horse
Improving earnings, an ongoing economic transformation and benign valuations all add up to a positive outlook for the year ahead.
