All Dynamic/Global/Tactical Asset Allocation articles
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White papersRethinking Trend Investing: Alternative Signals, Not Alternative Markets
Inflation, geopolitical fragmentation and concentrated, AI-driven markets have put a premium on investors’ ability to navigate directional moves across asset classes. We think systematic trend-following strategies can help chart a course. But how they’re designed matters.
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White papersAsset Allocation Outlook 4Q 2026: Repricing Risk, Recalibrating Exposure
The Asset Allocation Committee enters the fourth quarter moving to a more cautious near-term stance while maintaining a broadly constructive posture on risk assets. Higher long-end rates and the beginning of a modest rate hike cycle prompts risk adjustment at the margins.
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White papersGlobal Macro Outlook: Fourth Quarter 2026
The global economy remains resilient amid war tensions and soaring energy costs. AI-driven investment and productivity gains are helping offset inflation pressures, while central banks increasingly diverge on policy. We think growth should remain positive through 2026, though elevated oil prices, market complacency and geopolitical risks warrant caution.
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White papersRelative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q4 2026
Resilient growth, persistent inflation, evolving monetary policy, and geopolitical uncertainty are expected to shape markets heading into 2027. AI-related investment remains an important growth driver, while rate volatility may create opportunities for selective investors.
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White papersUnified Global Alternatives – Hedge Fund Bulletin
Risk assets generated mostly positive performance in August. After an uneven July, markets rallied to start the period boosted by forecasts of a reduced likelihood of a September rate hike from the US Federal Reserve which boosted the broader equity market. Market momentum stalled during the second half of the month in the wake of renewed hostilities in the Middle East as well as rising rate hike odds in the wake of Jackson Hole comments from Fed Chairman Warsh.
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White papersReplacing Equity Beta with High-Carry Credit
With U.S. equity valuations elevated and fixed income yields attractive, investors may be better served replacing portions of broad equity exposure with high-carry credit over the next three to five years.
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VideoSeeking Steady Income in an Unsteady World
Investors are grappling with how to generate sustainable income in a challenging market environment. De-globalization and trade tensions are driving up inflation and instability, while geopolitical risks and high fiscal deficits are making economies more fragile.
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VideoWebinar Replay: Asset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026
With real rates driving markets and AI’s investment reach expanding into power, industrials, and real assets, where are the best opportunities across equities, fixed income, and alternatives?
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White papersPositioning portfolios for the next world order
The global operating system is being re-wired. Strategic rivalry is back, self-interest is back, and the institutions built to manage a more cooperative world are visibly straining. None of this is sudden. The pressures have been building since the Global Financial Crisis, but their impact on markets is becoming harder to ignore. For investors, the result is a more fragmented, policy-driven world in which outcomes are more uneven and less predictable, and in which resilience matters more than ever.
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White papersInvesting in a ‘Low Trust’ World
Geopolitics shapes the backdrop for policy and business decision-making. It influences fiscal and industrial policy, public spending, inflation and interest rates. It shapes choices companies make, thereby affecting trade routes and supply chains too.
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White papersReimagining the opportunity: How Total Portfolio Approach could reshape multi asset investing
With traditional rules of thumb of investing becoming less reliable in an increasingly complex global landscape, how are investors tackling the new normal? Fabiana Fedeli, CIO Equities, Multi Asset and Sustainability, explores how large asset owners are increasingly moving towards a Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) and allocating more flexibly and dynamically across asset classes to achieve their investment objectives.
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White papersAsset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026: Staying Pro-Risk in a Broadening AI Cycle
An AI-driven capital spending cycle is gaining speed, spreading across the broader economy and creating a supportive environment for risk assets.
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White papersA New Investment Playbook for An Unruly World
In a new paper, “A New Investment Playbook for an Unruly World,” MetLife Investment Management outlines how investors may adapt to a shifting global framework, rising geopolitical influence and a more complex, volatile market environment that may be less U.S.-centric.
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White papersRelative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q3 2026
Markets are refocusing on fundamentals as geopolitical noise fades. This Q3 2026 outlook highlights resilient growth, persistent inflation and opportunities in high-quality sectors. Discover where disciplined, income-focused investors can find value.
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White papersHedge funds: The Red Thread – Alternatives, mid-year edition 2026
2Q26 outlook - The conflict in the Middle East and subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz are shifting the global economy from a ‘goldilocks’ state (steady growth and falling inflation) towards stagflation (lower growth and rising inflation). The recent rebound in risk assets, albeit welcome, may prove short-lived; supply chain disruptions are underway as energy prices and shipping costs rise and global inventories are depleted.
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White papersMulti-Asset Investments Views: From extreme caution to upside chasing
On 17 April, with the Iranian regime having confirmed US President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations were indeed ongoing in a bid to put an end to the Middle East conflict, we increased our equity exposure to its maximum overweight.
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VideoHow does MDT’s investment approach respond to geopolitical risk events?
MDT chooses discipline over reaction in the face of market shocks.
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White papersRethinking global diversification
The Russia-Ukraine war, the rise of tariffs and, most recently, the energy crisis are all triggers of a new geo-economic regime, where the forces shaping markets are broader and more structural.
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White papersEnvisaging and enabling cities of the future
So said Edward Glaeser, an American economist and influential urban expert at Harvard University. Glaeser’s work has illuminated the ways in which cities could be humanity’s greatest invention and how their evolution can have cultural and economic impacts far beyond their immediate locations.
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White papersBeyond data centres: Could fibre optic networks bridge the AI divide?
If you were asked to name a few standout inventions from the 19th century, you’d probably answer without much hesitation. The steam train, the light bulb, the telephone – all fundamentally changed the way people interact with one another and the world around them.
