All Commentary articles – Page 5
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VideoCIO Year-End Review and Outlook
Chief Investment Officer Sean Taylor provides a year-end update and 2025 outlook on what’s driving emerging market growth, a regional outlook on key countries, and the impact of the potential Trump tariffs.
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White papersClosing Bell 2024 : ‘Immaculate disinflation’ and the ‘Magnificent Seven’
2024 was another good year for tech stocks and equities overall
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White papersOutlook 2025: Trumponometer
Our Annual Outlook provides our key views and investment implications for the coming year
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White papers2025 Outlook: We have seen this movie before
As we head into 2025, it is hard not to notice several parallels with the past; it feels like we have seen this movie before.
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PodcastA Look Under the Hood of Climate Risk Analysis
This episode focuses on the EU autos sector as a means of exploring how we leverage our bottom-up research approach to analyse climate risks.
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White papersAllview: Market Risk Monitor - December 2024
Each month, Allspring’s Investment Analytics team assembles a top 10 list of market risks that it believes have the potential to influence investment portfolios.
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PodcastOuterblue Research – Looking for clues ahead of a second Trump presidency
After a campaign full of twists and turns, November saw the re-election of Donald Trump for a second term as US president. In this edition, we take a look at the geopolitical and economic ramifications of a new Trump presidency.
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White papersFront runners: The property types more likely to benefit from rising AI adoption
In the first installment of our artificial intelligence (AI) and real estate series, we introduce a framework to analyze the impact of the rising adoption of AI technologies on the commercial real estate environment.
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White papersVarious tailwinds support private markets
In our Private Markets Outlook 2025, we outline why we expect direct lending and real estate debt to perform strongly; while in the UK, the new government’s Autumn Budget contained positive signals for infrastructure development.
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White papersWill the equities rally continue in 2025?
Our Equities Outlook 2025 outlines why the Republican sweep in the US election could have wide-reaching implications for stock markets, currencies, commodities and foreign countries.
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White papersAnother banner year for liquidity?
Investors won’t forget near-zero yields in a hurry. Liquidity – and the healthy returns on offer – will remain king in the coming year.
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White papersOutlook 2025-2026: Trump-starting the global economy
2025 may be characterised by divergence across the world’s main economic regions, around three dimensions: underlying growth, fiscal policy, and monetary policy
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White papersThe Chief Economist view: Divergence
2025 may be characterised by divergence across the world’s main economic regions, around three dimensions: underlying growth, fiscal policy, and monetary policy.
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White papersOutlook 2025: Highlights and investment implications
Two major uncertainties lie at the heart of the global economic and investment outlook - to what extent will US President-elect Donald Trump translate campaign promises into policy and how successful will China be in reigniting its economy?
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White papersReal estate investment enters a new era
Alternative sub-sectors offer unique demand drivers and the potential to outperform core real estate sectors.
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White papersWhat is in store for tech?
The tech sector continued to outperform in 2024, with a YTD performance of +34% versus a +25% for the S&P 500 Index. Over the past two year, the tech sector’s outperformance has been driven by superior earnings growth, expectations of lower US interest rates and the start of a cycle of investment in AI technologies.
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Video2024 Barings 360° Private Markets Conference
We hosted Barings 360°, our flagship private markets conference, November 18-20, 2024 in Boston. The conference included annual investor meetings, dedicated BDC, Real Estate, and Global Private Finance tracks, as well as thought-provoking breakout sessions on the biggest challenges and opportunities in private markets.
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PodcastOuterblue Talks Research – The Artificial Intelligence revolution
This episode returns to the topic of artificial intelligence. Since we last covered this topic earlier in the year, there have been even more advances in what generative AI can do and ever increasing interest in how AI can be used across the corporate value chain.
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VideoNeuberger Berman Private Markets: Q3 2024 Preliminary Valuation Summary & Analysis
Doug Manor, Managing Director, Neuberger Berman Private Markets, provides an overview of private equity markets and an outlook based on trends in the marketplace.
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PodcastDisruptive Forces Election Special: Trump’s Cabinet
President-Elect Donald Trump will take office on January 20, 2025, after a whirlwind election season. But how could this term differ from his first? How will Trump’s cabinet be shaped, and what directions could this take the markets?
