All Equities articles – Page 56
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White papersShooting the rapids in 2022 – Our investment outlook in an infographic
What can investors expect after a year marked by new phases of the pandemic and given the prospect of another year that could see further outbreaks, renewed restrictions on mobility and activity, and a slowing economic recovery?
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VideoLet’s Get Physical: Unlocking Real Assets for Liability-Driven Investors
While many financial concepts and securities can sometimes feel abstract, real assets are refreshingly tangible. As investments that enable the everyday functioning of society, real assets have intrinsic value and typically generate stable, predictable cash flows that can act as an inflation-hedge. These qualities mean real assets are increasingly important sources of portfolio diversification.
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White papersOutlook 2022 - Bye-bye beta
Despite a fifth coronavirus wave rising as we enter the third year of the pandemic, there are reasons to be optimistic for the economic recovery, explain the Generali Insurance Asset Management Macro Research Team. In fact, a global 60-40 portfolio would have risen nearly 40% since the lows of March 2020.
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Podcast2022 Outlook Series: Investing Through Climate Risk
Climate change is already having material impacts on public and private asset classes across developed and emerging markets.
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White papersFactor investing: understanding your performance!
Multifactor strategies are based on investable portfolios, benchmarked against market capitalisation indices and tilted towards stocks with given characteristics (factors): they should be cheaper (value), more profitable (quality), less risky (low risk), and have outperformed in the past (momentum).
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White papersOmicron vs. the Fed
The volatility of the past two weeks may have had less to do with the virus and more to do with underlying cyclical uncertainties about growth, inflation and Fed policy.
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VideoTen for 2022: Suzanne Peck on Private Wealth
As 2021 concludes, the leaders of our investment platforms got together to debate and identify the key themes that they think will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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White papersLiquidity Stress Testing in Asset Management - Part 4. A Step-by-step Practical Guide
This article is part of a comprehensive research project on liquidity risk in asset management, which can be divided into three dimensions.
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White papersEconomic Outlook Roundtable
The global economic recovery looks set to continue in 2022, but a number of risks remain—from tangled supply chains to lingering price pressures. Join our panel of experts as they explore these issues from both the “top-down” and “bottom-up.”
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White papersSolving for 2022: Joseph Amato on Equities
As 2021 concludes, the leaders of our investment platforms got together to debate and identify the key themes that they think will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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White papersMarket Scenarios and Risks - December 2021
We change the narrative and the probabilities of the scenarios in line with our 2022 Outlook. The central scenario assumes that Covid becomes endemic with multiple waves albeit manageable, fiscal levers remain significant and tied to monetary policy and growth comes back to potential in 2023.a
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Research Report2022 outlook: Slower. But still pretty fast.
The current economic cycle isn’t ending, but conditions are getting more difficult and returns are going to be tougher to come by.
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White papersQ3 earnings season: results better than expected but doubts remain about next year
Q3 21 results were generally well above expectations, which was not taken for granted given the bottlenecks and higher input costs. However, the 2022 consensus remained very cautious, with EPS forecasts at best equivalent to nominal GDP growth! Good surprises cannot therefore be ruled out.
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White papersOur best investment ideas
Broadly speaking, valuations across public equities around the world appear full, but we see opportunities across sectors and markets. We expect valuations to be relatively flat next year.
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White papersReal Rates Are the Key to This Cycle
Most of the consensus trades for 2021 failed in the second half of the year, and we think understanding why could be critical to unlocking the rest of this unique cycle.
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Research ReportSustainable Global Equity Report, Q4 2021
It is increasingly understood that absolute levels of poverty are far from the only issue affecting the world’s poor. Almost a third of adults globally (about 1.7 billion people) remain unbanked.¹
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WebinarThe Meeting Room Webcast: Global Emerging Markets SMID, November 2021
Listen to the latest Federated Hermes Meeting Room: Virtual Portfolio Briefing on Global Emerging Markets SMID.
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White papersMetaverse & the Disruption of the Internet
The sci-fi inspired vision behind an idealized metaverse is clear—but the road to get there is uncertain. As the industry tries to adapt existing business models to fit this new (virtual) reality, which companies will be the winners?
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White papersShifts & Narratives #12 - ESG is not a given, the battle for data has just begun
ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing has been making news headlines recently. With the rising adoption of ESG worldwide, regulatory scrutiny has started to intensify. The focus of this attention has been the assessment of what is effectively the integration of ESG principles into the traditional investment process versus what can sometimes appear to be the mere labelling of investment products as ESG with minimal effort to incorporate ESG aspects – a marketing push put in place to address fast growing investor demand.
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Research ReportImpact Report, Q3 2021
It is increasingly understood that absolute levels of poverty are far from the only issue affecting the world’s poor.
