All Global articles – Page 166
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The case for listed real estate in a multi-asset portfolio
This is an expanded version of a 2015 paper which sets out to re-examine existing literature and research on the role of listed real estate as a proxy for direct real estate and the impact of listed real estate on the performance of multi-asset portfolios.
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Global Economic Overview: Spring 2016
The world economy stumbled in 2015, amid weak aggregate demand, falling commodity prices and increasing economic volatility in major countries. The world GDP grew by 3.1% vs. 3.4% in 2014.
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Global Real Estate Summary: Edition 1 2016
The global economy is relatively healthy, despite the fact that in most major economies domestic demand is expanding at a rate below its 10-year (or longer) average.
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White papersThe High-Tech Lever: Examining Technology’s Influence on the Economy
The physical limitations of our strength, our endurance, and our finite life span have actually been a catalyst to the success of our species. Human beings have used their creativity and ingenuity to continually transcend those confines.
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White papersBasis Trade at Index Close (BTIC) Trading at Index Option Expirations
Most index options traders use index futures for hedging purposes.
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Automation and Real Estate – the rise of the machines
This paper considers the impact of computing and robotics advances on the workforce and how this will influence real estate markets.
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White papersPreferred Securities: an Oasis in the Fixed Income Desert?
Following the global financial crisis, the restructuring and recapitalization of financial firms have made banks and insurance companies an attractive sector for fixed income investors.
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Equity Controlled Volatility Strategy
Equity volatility – or the “fear factor” as popularised in fiction – recently came back to the forefront of market operators’ minds, the result of events such as the Greek crisis during 2015 and questions around China’s economic growth prospects and plunging oil prices earlier this year.
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Good buy or good bye?
2016 has already started with increased uncertainty over the direction of the global economy which has raised volatility in financial markets.
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UBS Asset Management's Global Real Estate business undertakes EUR 7.1 billion in transactions in 2015
UBS Asset Management’s Global Real Estate business conducted EUR 7.1 billion of transactions in 2015, compared to EUR 6.0 billion in 2014.
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Time to Re-load? Current High Yield Bond Prices Present Long-Term Value
Global risk markets have been under pressure lately due to a confluence of factors—weakness in China and other global economies, plunging oil and commodity prices, and the onset of the removal of monetary accommodation by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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White papersGlobal high yield multi-credit strategies: Finding sense in a nonsensical world
With 40% or more of the Eurozone sovereign debt market offering negative yields, a new investor to the global debt markets may well be thinking he has wandered into the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
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Key risks for global real estate in 2016
Aided by extremely loose global monetary policy, capital values have experienced a strong recovery since the crisis. We believe this period of very strong capital growth has largely run its course and the window to capture significant yield compression is passing quickly, says Sandip Bhalsod.
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UBS Asset Management’s Global Real Estate business appoints Paul Guest as Lead Real Estate Strategist
UBS Asset Management’s Global Real Estate business has appointed Paul Guest as Executive Director, Lead Real Estate Strategist.
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Outlook 2016: Global Real Estate Securities
The potential for higher interest rates in 2016 is unsettling some investors, but we believe the right real estate securities are supported by a number of other factors.
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UBS Asset Management achieves top results in inaugural 2015 GRESB Debt Survey
London, 6 November 2015 – UBS Asset Management’s Global Real Estate (GRE) business, which manages two real estate debt funds, are delighted to announce that the funds have ranked 1st and 2nd in the inaugural 2015 GRESB Debt Survey, which measures the sustainability performance of real estate debt funds globally.
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Debt, distortion and navigating credit markets
Markets have been distorted by unprecedented central bank intervention. In spite of talk of policy normalisation, the burden of debt is a significant constraint. Finding opportunities in credit markets will require innovative investment approaches, writes Insight Investment’s Head of Credit, Alex Veroude
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A world view: the case for global core real estate investment
Real estate has earned itself a firm place in institutional portfolios, with worldwide investment in property reaching a record $13.6 trillion. However, one key difference remains between investor attitude to real estate and to other asset classes.
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UBS Global Asset Management achieves strong results in 2015 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) report
London, 3 September, 2015 – UBS Global Asset Management’s real estate funds, managed by Global Real Estate (GRE), continued to achieve strong results in the annual GRESB survey, with the majority of its responding funds ranking in the first quartile of their respective peer groups and nine funds being awarded ...
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European equities: Finding the best investment approach
What impact have recent events in Europe, particularly Greece, and in China had on European equities?
