All Global articles – Page 115
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EM Equity: A Return to Fundamentals, but a Long Road Ahead
Conrad Saldanha, Neuberger Berman Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Manager, discusses April’s EM equity market rally and the impact of falling oil prices on EM economies.
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Perspective on Private Credit
Listen to David Lyon as he discusses the current dislocation in the credit markets and the types of investment opportunities that may emerge as a result.
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Unlocking the potential of environmental investments
There is a way for investors to both safeguard the environment and simultaneously secure an attractive return.
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Measuring the business world’s environmental footprint
The idea of “ethical” or “green” investing has gained ground in recent years, but it is hampered by a lack of quantitative definitions.
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Fast Retailing case study
Fast Retailing has made significant improvements in managing human rights risks in its supply chain and on other sustainability risks following investor engagement. This case study details how EOS has engaged with the company since 2016 on the challenges the company is facing as a casual clothing retailer.
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Market weekly – Time to add risk in multi-asset portfolios?
Senior investment strategist Daniel Morris and Denis Panel, Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Asset and quantitative solutions team (MAQS), discuss the challenges to asset allocation in this volatile and uncertain market environment.
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Opportunity in Credit Dislocation
Michael Holmberg and John Humphrey provide an update on the credit market dislocations resulting from the crisis, what is causing concern in the market and how to find the opportunities that are emerging.
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Covid-19 real estate update
Economic disruption is feeding through to real estate markets, prompting subdued investment market conditions The impact of the crisis is currently most evident in occupier markets, with the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors facing the greatest short-term liquidity pressure We believe Asia is best ...
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Five portfolio construction themes for—and after—the global pandemic
At the end of 2019, we titled our year-ahead outlook, “20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth.” That was then. Markets have since been thrown into turmoil, and investors are grappling with positioning their portfolios to minimize the damage from the coronavirus-induced crisis and take advantage of an eventual recovery.
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10 (mostly new) predictions for 2020: A light at the end of a very long tunnel
We launched our original set of 2020 predictions a few months ago with the theme, “Uncertainties diminish, but markets struggle.” The coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic and market upheaval have since changed everything. In early March, consensus expectations for 2020 global GDP growth were +3%. Now they are -3%.1 A 6% swing would be unusual over a three-year time period. We just saw one in a month.
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Life beyond lockdown: how the coronavirus will accelerate existing global trends
As we navigate the ever-changing landscape of the coronavirus, the world is changing. Will the shifts in our way of life being introduced as part of the fight against the virus accelerate industry trends that were already underway?
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Why farmland now? Amidst unprecedented market volatility, a durable and consistent investment with compelling upside
Considered a safe haven investment, farmland has proven to be a reliable store of value through times of economic tumult – exhibiting durable valuations and attractive levels of income, both of which are uncorrelated to competing assets.
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Fixed Income Market Update: A Lower Volatility Environment
Ashok Bhatia, Neuberger Berman Deputy Chief Investment Officer - Fixed Income, discusses the decline of fixed income market volatility in April and provides an update on where his team is finding value across the fixed income markets.
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Reimagining Handshakes For The Global Recovery
Crisis data is almost always lagging, so investors should focus on the psychology of getting back to normal.
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You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Stimulus
Worse-than-expected U.S. retail sales suggest a large drop in consumer spending, the IMF projects global growth will fall 3% in 2020, and people around the world are beginning to receive their stimulus checks—and it’s already not enough.
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Stewardship during and after the pandemic
Stakeholders and a social licence to operate are fundamental to long-term value creation
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Coronavirus – Weekly update – 15/04/2020
As of 14 April, worldwide COVID-19 cases were closing in on 2 million, while deaths now exceed 121 000. In terms of the broad trends at the regional level, we highlight a few key takeaways:
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Plotting the path to recovery: V, L or Nike swoosh?
When the coronavirus pandemic eventually recedes, what will a recovery in equities look like? Here we consider three potential outcomes and how our Asia ex-Japan portfolio is positioned to weather the outbreak.
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Looking Through the Pandemic
Confusion, uncertainty and snap responses to the coronavirus have created an environment that leads to more questions than answers. Because some previous tendencies will likely speed up while others slow down, here are three trends investors should watch in the months ahead.
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Infrastructure debt’s resilience is in its DNA
Infrastructure debt has been more stable than corporate debt over the past 35 years, but faces a stern test as coronavirus rocks markets. We look at what lends it such stability.