All Global articles – Page 134
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Banning Huawei: an act of economic war
As long-term investors in Chinese companies, we ask ourselves: is the US’s blacklisting of Huawei a tactic in ongoing trade tensions, or a move instigating an economic war?
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Turning Big Data into Big Investment Insights
What do airline ticket prices, car sales and thousands of corporate filings have in common? In each of these areas, we applied advanced big data techniques to tackle an equity investing conundrum that couldn’t be solved by human researchers alone.
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Emerging Market Bonds—Standing On Their Own Two Feet
Some data demonstrates a stronger resilience to rising US rate than typically expected.
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The case for a core allocation to emerging market debt
A commonly held, but misplaced, belief that emerging market debt is an obscure and risky outpost of the fixed income universe has resulted in its under-representation in many portfolios.
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Amplified: ESG investing and Stewardship
The world is at a tipping point; responsible investment, ESG and stewardship, once seen as the preserve of niche green investors is now mainstream, challenging accepted investment fundamentals, as well as investors, asset owners and companies to do better.
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How Machine Learning Can Help Bond Investors
When a group of graduate students asked Warren Buffett about the best way to prepare for an investing career, he held up a stack of Securities and Exchange Commission filings. “Read 500 pages like this every day,” he told them. “That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
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Where the Dry Powder Goes Next
Stuart Mathieson and Bryan High, portfolio managers for the Global Special Situations strategy, discuss the outlook for distressed debt investing—and explain how they’re finding opportunities throughout the cycle.
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What to look for when investing in global cities
Hugo Machin, Co-Head of Global Real Estate Solutions, explains what makes a successful global city investment and why London is so highly rated.
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Pricing Individual Stock Options Using Both Stock And Market Index Information
When it comes to individual stock option pricing, most applications consider a univariate framework. From a theoretical point of view this is unsatisfactory as we know that the expected return of any asset is closely related to the exposure to the market risk factors.
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Responsible Property Investing - 2018
We have been benchmarking the RPI performance of our funds for many years, with our involvement in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) survey growing over that time.
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Variance Premium, Downside Risk, And Expected Stock Returns
We decompose total variance into its bad and good components and measure the premia associated with their fluctuations using stock and option data from a large cross-section of firms. The total variance risk premium (VRP) represents the premium paid to insure against fluctuations in bad variance (called bad VRP), net of the premium received to compensate for fluctuations in good variance (called good VRP).
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Expectations Diverge
A broad-based stock rally in the early part of this year extended a notable divergence to the less optimistic views being reflected in government bond markets.
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Four Reasons Security Matters Right Now
Amid the late stages of an elongated credit cycle, Martin Horne, Barings’ Head of Global High Yield, discusses four reasons why global senior secured bonds—a lesser known and perhaps underappreciated subset of high yield—could be an attractive option in the event of defaults.
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Modern Monetary Theory: Could it go mainstream?
An obscure and heterodox branch of economic theory is quickly gaining support from prominent politicians in the US and beyond, which could have big implications for policymaking, argues David Nowakowski.
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The Road Back To The 70s: Implications For Investors
History shows that the economy and financial markets are dominated by long-term regimes that at some point come to a break point, where one regime gives way to a new one. This shift may not be easy to detect. Trapped in their comfort zones, with a short-term perspective, few may see it coming.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - June 2019
After weeks of relative stability, the threat of a trade war has returned, shaking investor confidence and awakening markets from complacency. However, while there is still a significant optimism in the market that a deal can be struck, we believe that the risk of disappointment leading to another wave of volatility remains significant.
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Amplified: There’s more than one side to any investment story
We are now in the tail end of the second quarter of an already eventful year, with investors facing a range of stark choices.
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The 2020 US Presidential Election: Another Close Race?
President Donald Trump’s performance on the US economy gives him a significant advantage over his Democratic rivals heading into the 2020 election. However, Trump has consistently polled poorly with voters on character issues including leadership, temperament and management skills. The potential fallout from the Mueller report and ongoing House ...
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Should Markets Heed Recession Warnings?
How are fundamentals? Ed Perks, our CIO of Multi Asset Solutions, describes the backdrop for the US remaining relatively strong.