All Global articles – Page 8
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PodcastSustainability agenda – Capital and solutions for real-world issues
Increasingly, investors want to see real-world outcomes resulting from asset managers’ sustainability-related efforts. These could range from engagement and stewardship to ensuring corporate transition plans are credible. Simultaneously, demographic shifts and innovations such as AI are emerging as social investment themes that require capital and solutions to tackle them.
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White papersGlobal High Yield – 2025 in Review and 2026 Outlook
GHY delivered a standout 2025, supported by resilient growth, low defaults and strong demand. What comes next? Our latest outlook explores whether today’s tight spreads can remain justified in 2026 and where opportunities still lie.
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White papersMaking portfolio optimisation understandable for humans
Outside of the small circle of quantitatively minded portfolio managers, portfolio optimisation remains largely underused in practice because of one big obstacle: optimisers are still seen as black boxes. They help produce the final portfolio, but how the result comes about is a mystery.
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White papers2026 Global Trends and Tactics
Global private real estate markets have shown signs of stabilization, with transaction activity increasing in recent quarters. Nuveen’s Global Trends and Tactics examines the current real estate environment, including recent performance trends across global markets, evolving transaction dynamics as pricing adjusts from prior peak levels, and opportunities in real estate debt markets as capital values and margins shift. This analysis explores both potential opportunities and risks for investors considering real estate allocations in the current environment. Read the full report.
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White papersIlliquidity premia in private debt
Our private markets research team have crunched the Q4 2025 data. They explain how evolving macro conditions are reflected in private debt returns.
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VideoPortfolio Design as Gesamtkunstwerk: The Total Portfolio Approach
In this video I discuss an increasingly important framework for institutional investing: the Total Portfolio Approach, or TPA which is the subject of our latest paper.
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White papersRisk Assets: Navigating the Crosscurrents
Under a resilient macro surface, risk markets are being shaped by powerful crosscurrents, driving rapid rotation across factors, sectors and regions.
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White papersAI world of opportunities
Highlights how AI is reshaping global markets, creating investment opportunities across multiple sectors.
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White papersRob Lovelace on the year ahead
As 2026 unfolds, markets are once again climbing a proverbial wall of worry. Trade wars, geopolitical conflicts and fears of a bubble in AI stocks have shaken investor confidence at times, but markets have managed to look past these daunting events and forge ahead. Can this remarkable resilience continue?
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VideoAI optimism, not exuberance
In our latest video, Steven Chiavarone, Deputy CIO of Global Equities, outlines why we see rational optimism – and not irrational exuberance – driving the artificial intelligence (AI) theme. Elsewhere, he revisits our market predictions for the year ahead and shares our latest thinking on the ‘broadening out’ trade.
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White papersWhy Emerging Market Equities now?
Emerging market (EM) equities were among 2025’s most successful investments, outperforming developed markets (DM). In this Q&A, Michael Bourke, Head of Emerging Market Equities, explores the factors driving this rally and explains why strengthening fundamentals and supportive macroeconomic conditions are fuelling optimism about the outlook for emerging markets. He also discusses the advantage of an active, long-term approach to investing in emerging markets and shares where he sees promising opportunities.
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PodcastIncorporating inclusive growth as a stock selection factor
Is inclusive growth an underappreciated investment criterion when investing sustainably? Amid geopolitical tensions, rising populism and growing inequalities, assessing a business’s inclusivity matters when selecting investments. Shazaan Gaffoor, Investment Specialist for the Global Equity team, explains why to Andy Craig, Co-Head of the Investment Insights Centre.
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White papersIndia’s Clean Energy Moment
Will India’s policy push create the de risked clean energy opportunities of the decade?
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White papersMegatrends are driving infrastructure debt into the mainstream
In a new interview, Emaad Sami explains why, as volatility reshapes global markets, infrastructure debt is emerging as the understated source of stability, income and structural growth.
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White papersEmerging Markets. Starting the year on a strong footing
Emerging Markets are proving resilient despite tariff-related headlines and geopolitical uncertainty. As inflows return to EM fixed income and real yields remain attractive in select local markets, we see opportunities—while remaining highly selective across credits and countries.
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White papersHarnessing Yield—and Growth—in Multi-Asset Income
Multi-asset investors should use a diversified toolkit to generate income efficiently.
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WebinarWorld in chaos after Davos? Impact on Markets
During this webinar, our experts Philippe d’Orgeval, Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer, and Monica Defend, Head of Amundi Investment Institute & Chief Strategist, moderated by Danae Quek, Senior PR Manager, explored how the latest surge in geopolitical tensions, renewed tariff threats, and mounting concerns over public finances are shaping market behaviour and influencing investor positioning.
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White papersThe ‘inverted pyramid’: winners from new US food guidelines
The US government’s move to shift the national diet provides tailwinds for companies in ‘real food’ supply chains and reformulation. Its revised guidelines emphasise high-quality proteins, dairy and fats, raise nutritional standards for school meals and reshape how ‘food stamps’ can be spent.1
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White papersA healthy correction underway
Market broadening accelerates as software gets its ‘DeepSeek’ moment.
