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White papers5 Key Themes – and How to Play Them
As we look ahead to the second half of 2019 and into 2020, investors face a range of challenges as well as opportunities. We’ve narrowed these down to five key themes that we believe will continue to dominate headlines and drive the performance of financial assets, and outlined our investment ideas to help navigate the environment ahead.
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FTSE Russell China Bond Research Report Q2 2019
A quarterly report by FTSE Russell that provides insights into the China bond market, including performance of the FTSE Russell China Bond Indexes.
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July's Rich Pickings podcast: The spectre of inflation
“A return to inflation worries me … both sides of a balanced portfolio are going to get hurt,” says Head of Investment Solutions Design David Buckle in this month’s Rich Pickings, the podcast that puts you in the room of the monthly asset allocation debrief.
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Update on drivers in Real Assets - Q2 2019
Fears of a potential global economic slowdown have put interest rate rises on hold. Longer duration assets (infrastructure debt and equity, real estate long income) should capture the higher capital gain if long-term rates fall but are quite insensitive to short-term rates. Despite higher leverage in infrastructure ...
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Macro regimes: Macro matters
Macroeconomic conditions can have a strong influence on asset returns and should be specifically accounted for in portfolio construction. We define four different macroeconomic regimes and test their effect on the historical excess return distributions of global equities, global government bonds and commodities. We then compare targeting ...
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Blog | Are the Eurozone and ECB turning Japanese…?
ECB President Draghi recently stated his concerns about the slowdown in the Eurozone economy and noted that the ECB still has plenty of scope to expand its QE asset purchase program (Sintra, Portugal, June 19) if required.
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Strategic Relative Value Q2 2019
A quarterly look at how macro events are driving relative value around the globe.
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Italy: A Long And Winding Road
Arm-wrestling within the Italian government and between Italy and Brussels to find a solution to the Italian budget and avoid the Excessive Deficit Procedure. After Italy’s exit from a technical recession in H2 2018, economic data are still pointing to weakness, and many risks loom in the second half of this year.
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Core Matter: A Deeper Look into Financial Vulnerabilities
Almost ten years of record low interest rates have raised leverage in the non-financial sector as well as investors’ tolerance for riskier and less liquid instruments. As a result, the average quality of corporate debt has worsened. Credit risk has shifted away from banks to asset managers. Mutual ...
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Eaton Vance Global Macro Absolute Return Advantage
Designed to seek steady risk-adjusted returns that lower portfolio volatility
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Expectations Diverge
A broad-based stock rally in the early part of this year extended a notable divergence to the less optimistic views being reflected in government bond markets.
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How Opportunistic Is Your Investment Grade Allocation?
Michael Freno, Head of Global Markets, discusses the benefits of ‘multi-asset’ or ‘opportunistic’ credit portfolios and the newly-launched Barings Global Investment Grade Strategies.
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Modern Monetary Theory: Could it go mainstream?
An obscure and heterodox branch of economic theory is quickly gaining support from prominent politicians in the US and beyond, which could have big implications for policymaking, argues David Nowakowski.
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Do not discount a rise in bond yields
There is a widespread assumption that bond yields cannot go much higher and, over the medium-term, are likely to fall. As a result, long duration positions in G7 government treasuries have become commonplace as investors bet on rising bond prices.
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Threadneedle (Lux) European Social Bond Fund - Annual Social Impact Report
The Fund, the first of its kind in Europe, aims to deliver both a financial and a social return by investing in corporate bonds across Europe. It has a clear focus on supporting positive outcomes for individuals, communities or society as a whole.
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Countdown to Zero—The Final Chapters
In our last interest-rate focused paper (Fall 2018), we hypothesized that G3 rates were temporarily boosted by fears of an acceleration in growth and an associated normalization of central bank monetary policy—a euphemism for less quantitative easing and higher short-term interest rates. Our bottom line was that once the growth bulge passed, long-term rates would continue to inch lower. This thesis wasn’t based on pessimism regarding the world’s growth outlook.
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