All Global articles
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White papersStrategy Outlook: Unified Global Alternatives - Hedge Funds Fourth Quarter 2026
As we enter Q4, AI continues to drive economic growth, market leadership and political debate. While productivity gains from AI are widely anticipated, their scale and timing remain difficult to quantify. The near-term impact on labor appears broadly positive for now, with skilled engineers and IT developers in high demand as companies build infrastructure and integrate AI into their operations.
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White papersThe market is the economy: Reflexivity and the monoculture of markets
The market has effectively become the economy it once merely served. Barry Gill argues that a supposedly diversified portfolio may now simply be a single leveraged AI bet.
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White papersWhy Private Markets Have a Role in Portfolios
Investors continue to raise their private markets allocations, and the evidence suggests good reasons for doing so. Headlines have focused on slower exits and on private equity trailing the largest public indices, yet a closer look at the data points to a more constructive picture.
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Asset Manager NewsCoöperatie VGZ commits €25 Million to Van Lanschot Kempen’s SDG Farmland Fund
Coöperatie VGZ has made an initial commitment of €25 million to Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management’s Farmland Fund. With this investment, VGZ has chosen a globally diversified farmland strategy that combines regenerative agriculture with portfolio diversification and long-term value creation. The commitment represents VGZ’s inaugural investment into regenerative agriculture as part of its mission to promote biodiversity and healthy food.
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WebinarWebinar - Megatrends: From AI to space and beyond
Portfolio managers Mark Casey and Michael Beckwith explore the durable trends shaping the global economy. How sustainable is the AI boom, where are other opportunities emerging, and what could it all mean for positioning investment portfolios?
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - October 2026
In September, global bond markets came under pressure amid inflation concerns and hawkish shifts by central banks, while equity markets remained relatively calm, supported by strong economic data and earnings, alongside renewed optimism around AI.
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White papersWhere Conviction Meets Selection: Finding Value in a Market of Diverging Real Estate Outcomes
A perspective on why investment selection, not broad sector exposure, may define the next phase of alternative real estate investing.
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White papersKey Takeaways from Climate Week 2026
Climate Week NYC convenes leaders across business and government who are shaping capital, policy and markets. This year’s event, presented in coordination with the UN General Assembly, saw a range of experts addressing the shift from ambition to implementation…
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Asset Manager NewsHines Announces Next Generation Leadership to Build on Global Real Assets Momentum
Adam Hines to join Laura Hines-Pierce as Co-CEO; David Steinbach named President; Alfonso Munk named Global CIO
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White papersEquity Outlook: AI, Higher Rates Raise the Bar for Diversification
Global equities advanced in the third quarter as market returns broadened away from technology. But AI’s disruptive impact is spreading across sectors and industries—transforming the very nature of investment diversification.
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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 papersAn Invidious Choice? Towards Bond Market Crisis or Yield Curve Control
The yields on long bonds have risen to multi-decade highs. Debt sustainability fears have festered for years but to no tangible effect—either on investment portfolios or political debate. The most likely route is that the “can is kicked” on both debates; after all, >2% real yields will be tempting to many investors.
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White papersFixed-Income Outlook: Four Ways to Capitalize on Dispersion
Fixed-income investors are being paid more to take risk than they have been in years, but not all opportunities are created equal. Higher yield levels, heightened volatility and growing differences across countries, sectors, industries and issuers are expanding the opportunity set. Dispersion is the raw material from which active returns are generated. Below are four ways investors can capitalize on it.
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White papersInvestment View for Q4: Liquidity is confidence
‘Investment View’ provides our quarterly macro & market outlook and investment recommendations
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White papersThe USD bear case faces a monetary-policy test
We entered 2026 expecting expensive valuations and Fed easing, alongside an administration increasingly focused on limiting the cost of financing a deteriorating fiscal position. Together, these conditions were expected to gradually normalise the USD.
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White papersThe road ahead for central banks
In a low-trust world that is becoming increasingly predatory, investors should expect supply shocks to become a new norm and the distribution of economic gains to stay uneven. Another result of the global order fragmenting is the rise of fiercer competition between countries. However, this competition is no longer limited to trade, tech, industrial leadership or energy security; it is instead being shaped by a relentless search for capital at the public and private level.
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PodcastGlobal Real Estate Opportunities for Insurers
As banks pull back and valuations shift, opportunities are emerging across both real estate debt and equity. Greg Eudicone joined the InsuranceAUM.com podcast to discuss how real estate has become increasingly selective and why active management is critical to identifying opportunities across sectors and markets.
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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 papersEmerging markets fixed income: Diversification in an uncertain world
Over the past two decades, emerging-market (EM) fixed income has evolved from the volatility of the 1990s and early 2000s into an asset class characterized by strong fundamentals, disciplined policy mixes and effective structural reforms.
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White papersOil shock; six months on, the EM debt bid remains strong
In April, we argued that emerging markets (EM) fixed income was better positioned to withstand the oil shock than it had been in 2022 and that we believed the asset class was poised for a strong rebound if de-escalation occurred within a relatively short time frame. De-escalation took longer than ...
