All Global articles – Page 9
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Video
Emerging markets equities: What does the future hold?
Emerging market equities are poised to benefit from a variety of positive dynamics, ranging from diversified supply chains to easing monetary policy across developed and developing economies. But China’s slowdown and a spate of elections this year pose challenges. Join portfolio managers Brad Freer and Arthur Caye as they discuss these evolving dynamics and how investors should think about allocation to the asset class.
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White papers
Equity Outlook: Making Way for the Magnificent Others
Despite narrow market concentration, we see opportunities in high-quality stocks that haven’t yet been rewarded. Global stocks posted healthy gains in the first half of 2024, although second-quarter performance moderated from the previous quarter’s breakneck pace. With inflation still sticky and equity returns concentrated, the time may be right for investors to broaden their horizons.
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The Role of Cold Storage in the Supply Chain
Food, one of life’s basic necessities, relies on cold storage for its safe, efficient and effective distribution to U.S. and global populations.
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Podcast
Speaking of Alternatives
Speaking of Alternatives is an original podcast from PGIM, providing a global perspective on the rich and diverse landscape of alternative investments. Each month, guests join Eric Adler, President and CEO of PGIM Private Alternatives, to cut through the complexities and get to the heart of alternative investing. Together they look beyond the headlines and scrutinise the latest trends and strategies driving this important asset class.
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Filling the void: A brief history (and future) of lending disruption
While the 2008 global financial crisis greatly sped up the growth of private credit, where is the disruption of bank lending headed next?
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Preparing for Rising Volatility
The second half of 2024 could see the current, localized election-related volatility go global.
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Video
Emerging Markets: Q2 CIO Update
Chief Investment Officer Sean Taylor provides a Q2 update on what’s driving emerging market growth, a regional outlook on key countries, the impact of the 2024 global election cycle, and why country selection is a key risk control in seeking opportunities.
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IPM monthly blog – Edition June 2024: Our monthly insights into private markets
Commencement of interest rate cuts to support market
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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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White papers
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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White papers
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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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.