All Global articles – Page 107
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White papersPastures new: Asset Liability Management in today’s reporting environment
The methods that insurers use to report profit to shareholders and solvency to regulators have been changing. This is the result of new accounting standards and solvency capital regulation in many markets.
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White papersHolistic Liquidity Measures During Covid-19: Supply, Demand, and Market Conditions
In late February and early March 2020, global markets experienced an unprecedented health crisis which increased both economic uncertainty and market volatility.
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White papersMarket weekly – Seize the opportunities with active equity strategies
After the recent strong rally in developed equity markets, senior investment strategist Daniel Morris and Guy Davies, chief investment officer active equity strategies, discuss the outlook and where we see opportunities.
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White papersGlobal High Yield celebrates its 10-year anniversary
Our Global High Yield capability is 10 years old. Since the capability’s inception a decade ago, the global high-yield market has transformed beyond recognition. Not only has it doubled in size, but the number of issuers – and the average size of an issue – have also soared.
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White papersThe New Purpose of a Corporation; or, What We’ve Known All Along
Without a doubt, the coronavirus is shaking the financial industry like never before. This is not the first time the world has faced a pandemic of this scale, nor is the first time that policy makers, business leaders and pundits have asked: “Is it different this time around? Are we at a turning point?”
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White papersInvestment grade credit: how cheap are credit spreads?
From the middle of February to late March was one of the worst periods of performance for risk markets in general and for investment grade (IG) credit in particular. This was in response to the Covid-19 crisis and was marked by both the speed and extent of the spread widening.
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White papersThe Day After #2 - Learn The Rules Like A Pro, So You Can Break Them Like An Artist
The vanishing – and probably for long – of most of the established economic rules is a crucial consequence of the crisis. Liberal democracies were living under these rules since the advent of the “Washington Consensus” and the ideological revolution of the 1980s.
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White papers(Weekly Pandemic) Market Commentary - Exit strategy goes live
Now is a key moment in the Covid-19 crisis, as the lockdowns end. Countries that have opened up early have not seen any significant relapse. But the number of new cases globally has picked up, and selected US States are easing up restrictions too early. V-shaped recovery? Non-sense. Vs ...
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White papersEmerging Markets After The Coronavirus
The investment case appears battered, but even lower returns may look good when the world gets back to normal.
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White papersThe New ‘Fusion’
As the physical and digital worlds merge, companies, investors and society will need to adapt.
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White papersCoronavirus – weekly update – 06 May 2020
As of 6 May, the global COVID-19 case-load has crossed the 3.7 million mark and the number of fatalities exceeds a quarter of a million people. Notwithstanding the usual caution around data comparisons across countries or through time, we highlight the following key features:
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PodcastThe AIQ Podcast: Climate emergency
This latest episode of the AIQ Podcast goes back to basics on climate: we explore leading scientists’ understanding of how the world is changing, as well as the investment community’s response.
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White papersEmergency Fiscal Programs: No Choice But To Increase The (Monetized) Deficits
The large fiscal packages announced by governments to counter the virus crisis aim, so far, at stabilization more than stimulus.
In addition to funding the emergency response to the virus situation itself, these packages intend to prevent a worsening of the crisis through the financial and household income channels. -
White papersOpportunities in alternatives: Don’t waste a crisis
Diversification and resilience are key investment attributes for navigating volatile markets and an uncertain economic outlook. Alternative asset classes are a rich source of both. Experts from Nuveen and its affiliates share their views on potential opportunities for institutional investors.
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White papersCoronavirus: Latest outlook for real estate investors
Nuveen Real Estate’s market-leading global research team is working daily to understand and assess the impact of the coronavirus on real estate markets and provide regular global, regional and sector perspectives.
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White papersEmerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2019
Financing countries’ climate and sustainable development commitments will require global investment on an unprecedented scale. IFC estimates cumulative climate investment potential of $29.4 trillion across six key sectors in emerging market cities through 2030. These sectors include waste, renewable energy, public transportation, climate-smart water, electric vehicles, and green buildings1.
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White papersEconomic and Real Estate Outlook in Context of Covid-19 #4
The global economy is slowly preparing to move out of phase 1 (lockdown) towards staggered re opening of key businesses with an emphasis on social distancing measures. The extent of damage to the economy will continue to be tabulated in the coming weeks, but the estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis is real U.S. GDP decreased a whopping 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 following a 2.1 percent increase in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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White papersThe day after #1 Covid-19 the invisible hand pointing investors down the road to the 70s
Without a doubt, the Covid-19 pandemic is shaking the financial industry like never before. But this is not the first time the world has faced a pandemic of this scale, nor is it the first time that public policymakers, business leaders and pundits have asked: “Is it different this time around? Are we at a turning point?”.
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White papersChina: Coming out of COVID-19
Looking at the economic outlook for 2020 just a few months ago, there’s no doubt times have changed. Many investors are wondering how to navigate the supply and demand shocks derived from the coronavirus, and questioning, where do we go from here? In this article we focus on COVID-19 impact on China, and how this might trigger an acceleration in the adoption of products or behaviours that some long-term themes will benefit from.
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White papersWill Covid-19 prove a pivotal moment for climate change?
Policymakers should use the current crisis to inject similar urgency into climate policy and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
