All Global articles – Page 21
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Is China’s reopening lifting the global economic cycle?
The current macro situation is puzzling. The three main economic regions are exhibiting three very different trajectories: the US is decelerating, China is recovering and the Eurozone is showing remarkable resilience.
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2020s vs 1970s: echoes, not a replay
”The many challenges that lie ahead will likely lead to high volatility in the global cycle, in terms of growth and inflation. To weather such an uncertain period a more dynamic asset allocation framework is needed.”
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Alternative Allocations: The growth and diversification of secondaries
Secondary funds, commonly referred to as secondaries or continuation transactions, purchase existing interests from limited partners (LPs) or assets from primary private equity fund investors. Although once considered a niche strategy, secondaries have matured and now represent a vital cog in the private equity ecosystem, according to Franklin Templeton Institute’s Tony Davidow.
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Gauging S&P’s Proposed Changes to Its Risk-Based Capital Adequacy Methodology
Guy Haselmann, Head of Thought Leadership at MetLife Investment Management (MIM), recently sat down with Jingsu Pu, Global Head of Insurance Strategy and Solutions at MIM, to dig through the proposed changes S&P Global is considering to its Insurer Risk-Based Capital Adequacy Methodology. Jingsu will help assess what it could mean for insurers and their ratings.
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2023 Fixed Income Midyear Outlook: Riding the Curve
Martijn de Vree, head of Fixed Income Solutions, and George Bory, chief investment strategist for Fixed Income at Allspring, discuss strategies that global fixed income investors can pursue in today’s markets. A more complete discussion can be found in Allspring’s midyear report to investors.
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Schroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens June 2023: your go-to guide to global property markets
Our latest analysis highlights the key data and trends that matter to global real estate investors.
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How investors can get on board with sustainable travel and transport
International tourism is expected to return to almost pre-pandemic levels this year, but this poses something of a conundrum. How do we combine the economic and wider benefits of travel with the increasing urgency of the need to tackle climate change?
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Impact Investing – Global Emerging Markets
“It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.” Paulo Coelho
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Allocation views: Testing the upside
In this Allocation Views, the prospect of an early pivot toward lower interest rates is less likely than markets hope and could act as a drag on investor sentiment, according to our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team.
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Perspectives from Emerging Markets: Green Steel
The steel industry is one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions. The challenge in producing green steel from zero-emissions hydrogen is cost. This report focuses on the process to produce green steel, breaking down the costs and technology used in each step in the process.
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How private credit can help fulfil long-term investment needs
In these volatile times, investors with long-term horizons such as global pension schemes need to find assets that can reliably deliver income whilst minimising volatility in challenging environments, but where could they invest in order to meet their requirements?
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Will Artificial Intelligence Become the “Terminator”?
Read more on the risks and opportunities of Artificial Intelligence
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Putting the ‘investment’ in investment grade credit
Investment grade bonds have historically provided a resilient and reliable option during volatile and uncertain market conditions. After last year’s sweeping sell-off, the global investment grade universe now offers an array of opportunities in quality issuers, allowing for effective diversification and the potential for attractive returns.
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Stock market outlook: Broader opportunities emerge
Even as the global economic outlook weakens, powerful tailwinds are forming behind certain areas of the equity markets that previously spent many years in the wilderness.
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A global approach to real estate private debt
DRC Savills Investment Management, Savills IM’s debt platform, is on a journey to becoming a global provider of real estate credit investments. Our goal is to ensure real estate credit forms a permanent part of investors’ portfolios, whether they are based in Asia, Europe or the US. Managing partner Dale Lattanzio explains our global real estate debt proposition.
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Conflict risk: an engagement update
The world’s facing much geopolitical uncertainty. We’ve been engaging with companies on their exposure to high-risk areas like Myanmar, Sudan, Russia, and Ukraine.
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Allspring Climate Transition Fixed Income Strategies
As the world transitions towards net-zero emissions, Allspring’s clients increasingly want to decarbonise their assets. We explain how our climate transition strategies enable this.
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Across The Universe #1: The Energy Transition
To accelerate the energy transition in light of the climate emergency, it is more crucial than ever that we bring all players to the table, argue Hervé Guez, CIO for Equity, Fixed Income and Social Imact Investing, Raphaël Lance, Head of Energy Transition Funds, and Marc Romano, Head of Impact Private Equity at Mirova.
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Is the Fed rate-hike pause still likely?
2023 was to be a relatively well telegraphed year, as opposed to 2022 which took investors by surprise. The idea was simple: in 2022, central banks had raised a wall of interest rates to protect our economies from a wave of inflation not seen since the 1970s. These rate hikes were to cause a slowdown in economic growth during 2023 without plunging the world into a deep recession – the ‘soft landing’ scenario.