All Global articles – Page 41
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PodcastOuterblue Convictions – Global Investment Views – Analysing the bright spots in a Trump 2.0 world
In the past few weeks, economists have been busy writing their predications for what might lie ahead of us in the next 12 months. This year, the task was made harder by the US elections, the strong chance of a shift in policy, and the potential spill over to other regions.
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White papers2025 Global Fixed Income Outlook
The results of the U.S. presidential election are on many investors’ minds heading into 2025. What are the potential implications for global fixed income markets?
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White papersGlobal Investment Grade Corporates: Let the Good Times Roll!
Major central banks easing policy, solid economic growth and moderating inflation should bode well for global investment grade corporate credit. So, is global investment grade corporate the current sweet spot in fixed income? We think it might just be.
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White papers2025 Outlook: Global Fixed Income Roundtable
Against a shifting macro, political and geopolitical backdrop, our fixed income portfolio managers explore the future prospects for high yield, emerging markets debt, and investment grade credit.
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White papersStanding Out in IG Credit
Current yields and total return prospects are presenting an attractive case for IG credit—but a global and flexible approach is key to capturing the diverse range of potential opportunities to generate alpha.
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White papersExploring emerging trends in the logistics and light industrial sector
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” As George Shaw rightly pointed out, continuous rethinking and development of strategies is essential for growth. In recent seasons, we have explored key megatrends like Industry 4.0, urban logistics, the rise of e-commerce, and de-globalisation. While the first three remain important components of the sector and continue to develop and shape the market, some megatrends are changing, thus offering opportunities and challenges alike.
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White papersIs real estate in recovery mode?
Following two years of cumulative losses, global real estate returns turned positive in the second quarter, suggesting a budding recovery in the asset class. In the era of low interest rates, real estate values were flying high. Globally, quarterly total returns reached 5.0% in Q4 of 2021 and 17.8% year-over-year in the subsequent quarter, according to the MSCI Global Quarterly Property Index – figures that were well above long-term averages. The tightening cycle that followed more than unwound those gains, with values now back to 2018 levels.
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White papersCOP29: Temperature Overshoot, Policy Undershoot
As COP29 gets underway, we consider the meeting agenda against the background of both the climate itself and recent progress on climate policy and financing.
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White papersLDI market review and outlook: The aftermath of an eventful election season
The summer lull never really materialised this year as geopolitical risk considerations, and a significant election schedule remained at the fore, resulting in changeable investor sentiment and hence relative value opportunities.
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White papersBeyond paper gains: the rising prominence of DPI and its focus on real returns
The private equity industry is undergoing a mindset shift with regards to returns. As traditional exit routes remain gridlocked and liquidity scarce, investors unable to turn portfolio returns into cash are rethinking what successful private equity performance looks like.
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White papersData centers
Data centers are growing rapidly across the world. How can we manage their sustainability impacts?
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White papersISA Outlook 2025: Global – The dawn of a new real estate cycle
Almost three years after interest rates began to spike leading into the Great Tightening Cycle, the first light of a new real estate cycle is clearly visible on the horizon. As with the start of every new day, however, opportunities and challenges lie ahead.
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VideoGlobal investment grade thoughts from Damir Bettini
According to portfolio manager Damir Bettini, all-in yields on global investment grade credit of between 4.5% and 5%, for an asset class that is A-minus rated on average, seem attractive. If you factor in central banks cutting rates, we could be looking at mid to high single-digit total returns over the next 12-18 months.
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White papersInflation trend is falling
“With ongoing inflation swings, central banks will be increasingly data-dependent.”
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White papersSpotting opportunities in a reconfigured world
Halfway through the decade, new forces are reconfiguring the post-pandemic global economy. The big shocks that hit labour markets, supply chains, and energy prices in the past five years have largely worked their way through the system. But geopolitics and national policy choices are creating a more fragmented world that may bring new surprises.
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White papersESG that thinks not just in years, but in decades
Our investment professionals and environmental, social and governance (ESG) specialists take on topics that matter.
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White papers2025 Investment Outlook: Bright spots in a world of anomalies
New forces are reconfiguring the global economy. While the big shocks of the past five years have largely worked their way through the system, geopolitics and national policy choices are creating a more fragmented world.
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White papersISA Briefing: The “Red Sweep” and real estate: has the outlook changed?
The impacts of US presidential elections on financial markets and especially real estate are often overstated, as we have pointed out previously (see our ISA Briefing, “Elections everywhere, all at once”). An excessive focus on the news cycle can distract from important ongoing trends that are not ‘new news’, such as a broad global trend toward cooling inflation. Headlines also tend to accentuate differences, rather than commonalities, between outcomes. For example, regardless of the election result, trends favored greater nearshoring, and both US political parties are hawkish on China.
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White papersStrategic Value Dividend: Why now, why always
Dividends offer stability in times of uncertainty, but, as Dan Peris, Head of Income and Value Group, argues, the returns they generate make them a smart choice in any market.
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White papersToo risky to cover?
As extreme weather events increase in frequency and severity, insurance losses continue to mount. Some areas exposed to the worst climate risks are now seen as too risky to cover. Michael Yamoah, Navishka Pandit and Judi Tseng assess the implications.
