All Global articles – Page 54
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White papersHot Debates for 2024
During the Amundi Investment Seminar, which took place in Rome early in October, we asked our investment professionals questions to help us define a forecast for what 2024 will be like for the economy, geopolitics and investments.
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White papers2024 Outlook: Steering through turning tides
The coming year will see the tides turn for growth, inflation and monetary policy, with the United States expected to enter a mild recession in the first half of 2024. Price pressures will abate, giving central banks scope to cut interest rates, but monetary policymakers will remain wary of the risk of policy errors. Fiscal policies will aim to reduce deficits and debt built up over the past decade while continuing to support the energy transition.
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White papers2024 Investment Outlook
Cross Asset Investment Strategy Special Edition: Steering through turning tides
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Global, Edition November 2023: Ongoing price adjustment
“Real estate capital values continue to edge lower, with the US lagging Europe, and APAC little impacted as Japanese interest rates remain on hold. Transaction activity remains muted while lending conditions have tightened. This is creating attractive opportunities for real estate-backed debt, such as bridging loans.”
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White papersIPM – Edition November 2023: Our semi-annual insights into private market
As we approach the end of 2023, markets are grappling with competing dynamics. US President Harry S Truman once quipped, “Bring me a one-handed Economist. All my Economists say, ‘on the one hand… on the other’.” Seventy years later, investors have more data, faster information flow and yet face similar complexities when trying to foretell the future.
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White papersBalancing uncertainty and optimism
The economic data in 2023 was better than expected: inflation fell, employment remained resilient and we didn’t end up in recession – in fact growth was impressively resilient.
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White papersISA Outlook 2024: The global view
Searching for peak interest rates, solving the capital stack equation, winning sectors coming off the boil and moving beyond bifurcation in the market. How should institutional real estate investors approach the new year?
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White papersCentral banks’ unwinding will put more public debt in market hands
The recent surge in global bond yields is partly ascribed to market worries about a greater supply of debt coming from governments. Some of this increase in yields should reverse when inflation nears central banks’ targets and monetary policy is less restrictive.
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White papersThree Notable Trends in the World of Secondaries
Why we think macro uncertainty and the private equity liquidity squeeze are making secondary market conditions particularly favorable for targeted buyers.
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White papersHigh-wire act: Is it possible to quell inflation and to avoid a recession?
The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England both opted to keep rates unchanged in their meetings this week.
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White papersThe recession party: should you stay or should you go?
Is the number up for the global economy? Fiorino looks to early 20th century polymath Frank Ramsey for guidance (and party-planning advice)…
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White papersHas the ESG bubble burst?
The blowback against ESG has taken on a life of its own in recent months but, even in the face of rising political opposition and a slowdown in fund flows, the real-world challenges ESG investing is designed to address are too big to ignore.
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White papersTech stocks take a tumble
Tech stocks slipped this week on the back of companies reporting weaker-than-expected earnings, dragging the Nasdaq 100 Index into correction territory.
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White papersPublic Engagement Report Q3 2023
The Q3 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes focuses on our engagements with companies on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and the community impact of large industrial projects. Plus, the wider societal impacts of AI, and voting season highlights from developed Asia and emerging markets.
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White papersDon’t Wait for Goldilocks
Yield curves have steepened and the opportunity cost of waiting for a “Goldilocks moment” to add duration has risen. Learn why diversifying across duration exposures, or “riding the curve” offers a compelling solution.
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White papersReal asset megatrends: Global trends shaping investment opportunities
Megatrends are long-term, global themes forecast to shape and transform society, the economy, and the environment over the next few decades. Investors are able to participate in the propagation of these trends through allocations to real assets, which are tangible physical assets with intrinsic value due to their substance and properties.
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White papersHow salmon became catch of the day
While salmon are known for swimming upstream, salmon farmers face a tough battle when going against the flow to create businesses that align with ESG principles
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White papersEmbracing diversity, equity, and inclusion: nurturing diverse talent for lasting business success
In recent years, we have seen conversations about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) take centre stage as part of a wider discussion about sustainability and meeting societal expectations about doing the right thing.
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White papersHow to think about bonds in this new world
After the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, investors reduced their allocation to bonds, and broadly remained underweight the asset class for more than a decade. In 2022, the long period of accommodative central bank policy came to an end as inflation accelerated.
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White papersGlobal inflation: Have deflationary forces subsided?
Global inflation continues to gradually cool, helped by lower energy prices and the impact of tighter monetary conditions. However, getting inflation back to 2% on a sustained basis could prove more difficult and depend on whether longer-term deflationary forces are able to re-assert themselves.
