All Global articles – Page 128
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White papersBeyond Alignment: Contributing To The Sustainable Development Goals
How impact management contributes to specific targets and indicators behind each Sustainable Development Goal.
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White papersA Tug Of War Between The U.S. Consumer & Everyone Else
The three things you need to know this week: Third quarter S&P 500 earnings expectations are in decline, the U.S. slapped new tariffs on EU imports and a new Brexit plan was announced.
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White papersWhat Do We Really Want From China? And What Can We Reasonably Expect?
Even an unexpected trade deal this week between the U.S. and China will not alter the trajectory of two alternate political, economic and social models coming to terms with each other as a fresh decade dawns.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - October 2019
Over the past few weeks markets have fluctuated between positive news around geopolitics (US-China trade talks, Italy and receding risks of no-deal Brexit) and not so good news around economic data (German recession, US manufacturing and Chinese slowdown). This led to a rebound in equities and a rise in core bond yields.
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White papersMachine Learning Optimization Algorithms & Portfolio Allocation
Portfolio optimization emerged with the seminal paper of Markowitz (1952). The original mean-variance framework is appealing because it is very efficient from a computational point of view. However, it also has one well-established failing since it can lead to portfolios that are not optimal from a financial point of view (Michaud, 1989). Nevertheless, very few models have succeeded in providing a real alternative solution to the Markowitz model.
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White papersAssessing Markets Where We Can Go On Offense
Global equities and bond yields are trending lower, and we maintain a relatively low-risk profile. But we’re always assessing where we can go on the offensive, and in this post we walk through our thinking on some of these opportunities.
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White papersAmplified: weaving the SDG’s into investment processes
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) are a universal set of goals, targets and indicators for global development. They have been called a blueprint for changing the world – but how? By ending global poverty, safeguarding the planet and aiming for prosperity for all – all by 2030.
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White papersFive reasons why global cities are the ultimate investment super-trend
Cities are becoming more important than countries, with their success determined by innovation, efficiency and the clustering of industries. What does this mean for investors?
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White papersCorporate Governance In Emerging Markets: Harnessing Winds Of Change
Companies getting serious about shareholder value spell opportunities for investors.
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People NewsHines Announces New Global Investment Management Strategy And The Appointment Of Three Geographic CIO’s
Hines, the international real estate firm, today announced a new structure for the firm’s investment management platform, a transformation that strengthens its ability to develop, acquire and operate best-in-class real estate assets globally in partnership with current and future institutional and retail investors. With $124.3 billion of assets under management, Hines is currently the second-largest real estate investment manager in North America and the fourth globally, according to Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Hines’ new structure will encourage more large investors to work directly with the firm in a variety of collaborative ways with the goals of achieving their objectives and simplifying the process.
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White papersStrategic Relative Value – Q4 2019
A quarterly look at how macro events are driving relative value around the globe.
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White papersSeptember Macro Dashboard
Global leading indicators ticked up slightly in August, but remain in contraction territory. While global growth has slowed, risks are tilted to the downside. The mounting toll of higher trade costs, decreased investment and dwindling confidence are weighing on growth.
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White papersStaying Nimble Amid an Uncertain Outlook
Our CIOs’ Global Investment Outlook highlights what shocks could affect the market and where they see opportunities.
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White papersInvesting In Chinese Onshore Debt - Overcoming the storm
Writing in the South China Morning Post Cary Yeung head of greater China debt explains why the country’s USD13 trillion onshore bond market is well-placed to overcome a weak yuan and the trade war.
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Navigating Uncleared Margin Rules
CME Group offers bilateral and cleared solutions to help you comply with UMR, minimize impacts to your firm and add capital efficiencies.
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Low Touch Compression
Low Touch Compression is the next evolution in the compression process, delivering improved usability, user transparency and full automation together with API technology.
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White papersWhitepaper: A Great Time to Be Agnostic?
CME Group recently collaborated with Pensions & Investments (P&I) to survey the attitudes and allocation preferences of today’s institutional investors, given the current market environment and the use of alternative investment strategies.
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Equities: Is it Time for Dividends to Come Back in Style?
In the latest episode of Streaming Income, Darryl Lucas, Head of Equity Income, provides insight into how the Barings team seeks to capitalize on the power of compounding dividends while aiming to lower risk in the process.
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White papersImpactful intent: RPI report 2019
In 2018 we launched the Hermes impactful intent framework as part of our commitment to deliver positive societal and environmental outcomes alongside strong risk-adjusted returns. In our 2019 responsible property investment (RPI) report, we consider how our holistic approach to real-estate investment has created healthier workplaces and helped bring the ‘meaningful city’ concept to life.
