All Commentary articles – Page 8
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White papersMidyear macro outlook: A new dawn of uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions, tariff uncertainty and global economic slowdown look set to define the second half of 2025. Our global CIO looks at why active management and research-led investing are the way to navigate this global complexity.
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White papersConfidence up for May but what comes next?
US consumer confidence index rose sharply, and above expectations, in May to 98.0, mainly due to a temporary trade truce between the US and China on tariffs. Expectations about the near future also improved.
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White papersThe Consumer Hangs In
Amid changing policy dynamics, fluctuating markets and swings in sentiment, the U.S. consumer has, so far, remained surprisingly resilient.
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White papersWill Smart Glasses Replace Smart Phones?
AI-powered eyewear offers a glimpse into the (not-so-distant) future. Growth investors, take heed.
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White papersCan Tomorrow’s Natural Hazards Inform Today’s Investment Decisions?
New research connects intensifying natural perils to their future implications for asset classes.
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White papersLeveraging the advantages of 60+ years of private real estate debt experience for clients
With 60 years of experience, private real estate debt offers tailored strategies and disciplined lending to navigate shifting market cycles.
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White papersConfusing Correlations: What’s Really Behind Them?
In recent weeks we’ve witnessed extreme (and at times, puzzling) correlations among asset classes. In this paper, we break down the potentially misunderstood drivers of these strange dynamics and their implications for investors.
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White papersEmerging Markets 2.0: The Tipping Point Is Here
The past decade has been one of “exceptionalism” for U.S. equities as technological innovation has created a league of American superstar companies driving extraordinary equity gains.
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BlogCombining Profit and Purpose: How Real Estate Drives Social Impact
A profound shift has been taking place across the real estate industry in recent years. Success is no longer measured purely by financial return – it’s also about creating places that have a positive social impact and improve people’s lives.
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White papersSchroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens Q2 2025: your go-to guide to global property markets
Valuations and transaction prices have continued to stabilise and recover despite uncertainties.
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White papersWhy investors need private markets
The 60-40 approach to portfolio diversification is being challenged, as traditional asset class correlations weaken. Can private markets be an alternative diversifier and should investors consider an allocation?
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White papersThe ECB’s road ahead: navigating the certain uncertainties
Europe’s economic backdrop is brimming with competing dynamics that have made the ECB’s principal mandate for ‘price stability’ more challenging than ever.
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White papersOil prices stop making sense
For the past few years, the expanded group of oil producers known as OPEC+ have tried collectively to stabilise crude prices by lowering production in order to dampen price volatility to the downside. But because several members of the wider cartel have different and conflicting fiscal and external financing priorities, efforts to limit output have not only failed, current production has increased. This would be newsworthy by itself, but is even more puzzling considering the potential impact of tariffs on global demand.
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White papersWebinar replay: View from the top
Register to watch the exchange between Chad Phillips, the newly appointed Global Head of Nuveen Real Estate, and Jenny Du, Global Chief Operating Officer of Nuveen Real Estate as they discuss the future of the real estate market, the vision for the platform, and strategic growth priorities.
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PodcastTalking Heads – It’s a match: infrastructure investing and Europe’s new focus
As investors shift away from US investments and eye opportunities for yield and growth elsewhere, it makes sense that Europe comes to mind. This is especially so now that the ‘old continent’ has kicked off a revitalisation drive to target new sources of growth and trim its dependence on the resources of other countries.
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White papersFrom Liberation Day to Independence Day
Business confidence needs to improve to restart U.S. investment and growth—could the forthcoming tax bill provide the impetus?
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PodcastOuterblue Convictions - Global Investment Views - Trade wars continue to complicate policy decisions
The spring meetings in Washington are a useful platform to gauge opinion of policymakers, economists, bankers and investors from around the world. In this latest edition of our monthly investment views podcast, Monica Defend, Head of Amundi Investment Institute, catches up with Swaha Pattanaik on her return from the US to share Amundi’s latest investment views and talk about the mood in Washington, and what this might mean for the markets.
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White papersChina in the race to technological leadership
With its rapid advancements in critical technologies, today, China is a formidable competitor to the developed West for global technology leadership. Innovation can take many forms, including process innovation – in which China excels – leveraging its large and dynamic manufacturing base. However, this is not enough.
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White papersSurging office lending
Office lending jumped 42% in early 2025, signaling renewed confidence. Banks and insurers led the rebound despite lingering sector challenges.
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White papersISA Briefing: The trade war, relatively speaking: Tariffs and real estate fair value
Two 90-day pauses, one on retaliatory tariffs with China and the other on the so-called “liberation day” tariffs, have not liberated markets from uncertainty. However, these course corrections have at least shown that the US administration has limits to its willingness to tolerate extreme market movements, particularly increases in Treasury yields, or severe outcomes for consumers such as product shortages. They have also contributed to a more benign recent market environment than at the beginning of April.
