All Global articles – Page 7
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2024 midyear outlook: Widening cracks in the investment landscape
“Step on a crack, break your mother’s back” conjures up images of children playfully jumping over gaps between sidewalk squares. As grownups, we can indulge such youthful superstitions as harmless. As investors, however, we recognize the very real risks posed by fissures and fault lines in the economic terrain — and the need to navigate them successfully. This is the challenge we’re facing midway through 2024.
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Best ideas across asset classes
A combination of global economic resilience and strong corporate earnings has propelled equity markets higher over the first half of 2024. This upward move has been accompanied by less favorable valuations, which (combined with uncertainty surrounding central bank policy) leads us to stick with a neutral view toward global stock markets.
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Q2 2024 CIO Review and Outlook
CIO Sean Taylor says the second half of the year looks positive for emerging markets but country selection as a risk control will be critical in what is proving to be a politically-charged period for equities.
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Trade Wars and Tariffs Test Equity Investing Research
How can global equity investors incorporate the impact of tariffs into fundamental analysis of companies?
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Global real estate - Opportunities as market bottoms out
Why add unlisted real estate to your traditional 60/40 portfolio? The paradigm for global inflation and interest rates may have changed, but unlisted real estate still has a key role to play in a multi-asset portfolio. The role of unlisted real estate and its required risk-return has changed as the risk-free rate has moved from zero and below.
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What do geopolitical risks mean for central bank FX reserves managers?
Two major industry surveys show that adjusting for geopolitical challenges will impact the way foreign exchange reserves are managed.
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Asset Manager News
Actis Announces Launch Of Orygen And New Ceo Following Acquisition Of Enel Generación Perú
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has announced the launch of Orygen, its latest energy platform operating as an independent power producer in Peru.
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Five Structural Themes Driving Real Estate Investment
Commercial real estate demand and performance are driven by cyclical and structural factors. Cyclical factors, such as interest rates, consumer spending and employment, vary with economic cycles.
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New standards and frameworks arm investors in the battle against biodiversity loss
The global pledge to halt and reverse biodiversity loss – known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) – is helping to shape and accelerate government policy as well as corporate and investor action in terms of protecting the natural world. The GBF signals that while great strides have been made in terms of tackling the biodiversity crisis, much more still needs to be done.
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Global REITs: Out of favour, but rarely better!
The narrative on Global REIT price weakness in recent years has centred on the rapid rise of interest rates, headlines about the demise of the office, and concerns about the health of bank lending to commercial real estate. Whilst there is merit to some of these concerns, they mask the reality of a listed real estate sector in strong shape.
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2024 Global Outlook: Changing the Narrative
Dr. Peter Hayes, Global Head of Investment Research, uses the recently published Global Outlook report as a backdrop to discuss how investors should think about constructing a resilient, growth-driven portfolio for the next cycle and why the outlook for 2024 is compelling.
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Fueling the Future: Investing Across the Global Energy Landscape
Today we stand at a critical inflection point for the energy system. For decades, the world has wrestled with an energy trilemma in balancing multiple goals: reliability, universal access to affordable energy, and mitigating and avoiding environmental harm. However, the complexity of balancing these competing priorities has dramatically increased in a world facing multiple interlocking crises.
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2024 Best Ideas: Rethinking Resiliency and Risk
Our 2024 Best Ideas offers investors a look at where we see opportunity, while our case studies show how we help our clients overcome obstacles.
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Unlocking infrastructure opportunities: Top 10 interview with Roland Hantke
Private infrastructure investments are increasingly gaining traction – and for many reasons. Considered a safe haven especially during inflation, infrastructure is receptive to many secular trends currently shaping the global economic scenario. What are these, and how should investors approach this multi-faceted asset class?
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Tailoring the Taylor Rule for a clearer steer on rates
What will happen to interest rates this year? We’ve developed a modified version of the Taylor Rule which might have the answers.
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Will Productivity turn global growth around?
“If these trends continue, global growth over the next decade would likely be sub-3%, compared to just under 4% in the two decades before the pandemic.”
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Schroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens May 2024: 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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Podcast
Outerblue Convictions – Global Investment Views – Data driving diverging paths
Three factors are driving today’s global markets; economic growth, inflation and the outlook for monetary policy. Central banks are increasingly dependent on data and inflation remains their chief cause of concern. It is becoming clear that divergences are opening up in policy and outlook in the US and in Europe. On one side a clear path has appeared, where on the other, this path is still surrounded by uncertainty.
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Global Investment Views - June 2024
“Expectations of monetary easing by central banks may support areas that show earnings resilience and are attractively priced.”
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Webinar
Webcast – Unpacking recent global economic trends
In this second webcast in our Global Macro Views series, economists from our Macro Research & Investment Strategy team give their views on topics including the outlook for a resilient US economy and the effects of November’s election on interest rate policy. They discuss the signs of an economic pick-up in the eurozone economy and the chances of growth in China hitting Beijing’s 5% target.