All Global articles – Page 37
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Defensive asset allocation extends into 2023, with a gradual increase in risk exposure later in the year
”Global slowdown amid still elevated inflation to characterize most part of 2023.”
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2023 infrastructure outlook: Climate, macro drivers create tailwinds
ClearBridge Investments expect dire need for infrastructure spending to underpin growth for the next decade and beyond.
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5 things to know about the future of semiconductors
How fast things can change: there was a major shortage of semiconductors at the start of the pandemic, and now the industry is grappling with too much inventory in parts of the supply chain. This has led to a sell-off in semiconductor stocks and prompted questions about the depth and duration of this downturn.
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Investment Outlook – Positive but tempered return expectations
There were few places to hide in 2022. Inflation, monetary policy tightening and geopolitical risks marked a stark contrast to the drivers of returns in 2020 and 2021; the backdrop ultimately forced a revaluation of fixed income and equity assets. From low to high inflation, and from low to high interest rates, returns suffered as markets adjusted to the new paradigm.
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Food accessibility and security: An investment intangible
Explore issues stemming from food security and the impact financial markets can have in addressing potential solutions.
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Global Data Centers: The Resilience of Digitalization
While the COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest economic shock in generations, it led to a significant increase in the mass adoption of advanced technologies. As we highlighted in our previous paper, the use of technologies that enabled remote working, distance learning and online entertainment and shopping resulted in unprecedented increases in global internet traffic and data volume.
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Global Real Estate Outlook: Steering through volatility in the search for value
In our latest Global Real Estate Outlook we explore the structural and cyclical challenges impacting traditional property sectors, how portfolio allocations may shift, and the need for skill and perspective to steer through ongoing volatility in the search for value. Risk aversion is discernible, but history has shown that real estate often delivers the best vintage of investments in the years after recession.
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Driving toward new frontiers; Nuveen’s stewardship report
Welcome to the Nuveen 2021-22 Stewardship Report. For more than 120 years, along with our parent company TIAA, we have helped millions of investors achieve long-term financial health.
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Is Relief on the Horizon for Rising Construction Costs?
In the past year, construction teams around the world have been facing increased cost pressures with rising steel and lumber indices. Materials, commodities, labor and supervision, subcontractors, and opportunistic cost in general are escalating in many places.
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Equities: Not All Growth is Created Equal
The indiscriminate sell-off in growth companies is creating potential opportunities in ‘true’ growth stocks, which are becoming increasingly undervalued amid the broader market decline.
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Global Investment Views - December 2022
Markets have seen some relief in a year that overall is likely to be remembered as among the most challenging for investors. But the negative trend reverted somewhat with gains for the S&P 500 and select Treasury Indices.
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Investing in 2022, a year of regime change
Like financial risk, change can also cluster. Revisiting our CIO views published over 2022, we consider the seismic shifts in the investment landscape and how our strategies adapted dynamically to the new environment to make the best of it for investors.
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Economic trends and investment themes for 2023 and beyond
Our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team recently brought together experts from across Franklin Templeton’s various investment groups for their fourth annual Investment Symposium event.
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EMD outlook for 2023: local currency yields offer protection in volatile conditions
Global factors weighing on emerging market debt (EMD) in 2022 look likely to continue in 2023, with three main driving forces within this: tighter financial conditions led by the US, a stronger US dollar and weak global growth.
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Investing in the fight against a worsening obesity epidemic
Obesity has quickly reached global epidemic proportions over recent years with levels close to tripling since 1975.
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COP27: 8 key takeaways
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) took place in a year of severe climate impacts as well as a host of humanitarian challenges from wars on multiple fronts and an uneven recovery from an ongoing pandemic to the growing food, energy, and cost of living crises.
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2022 IFM Investors Responsible Business Report
Our responsible business approach underpins our financial performance for our investors as we pursue our purpose, which is to protect and grow the long-term retirement savings of working people around the world.
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COP 27: not a lost COP after all
On 6-20 November 2022, Heads of State, Ministers, and negotiators with representatives from business, civil society, mayors, and environmental organizations met in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt for the largest annual gathering on climate change.
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Investment Outlook 2023 – Investing in an age of transformation
In our 2023 Investment Outlook, we seek to guide investors at a pivotal moment for the global economy. Surging inflation and fundamental geopolitical shifts have led to rising demands on governments.
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2023 Investment Outlook - Some light for investors after the storm
2023 key convictions from CIOs: 1. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is acting as an accelerator towards a regime shift, featuring higher inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, and a tug of war between monetary and fiscal policy, in a world already flooded by debt. Expect economic divergences to intensify.