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White papersCommodities Spotlight
From Pandemic Bottlenecks to Tariff Turbulence: Unraveling the Elevated (EFP) Premium in Precious Metals
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White papers2025 Hedge fund investor barometer
At Amundi, Alternative & Real Assets is dedicated to building long-term relationships with our clients and partners, rooted in proximity and authenticity. Guided by the belief that tomorrow’s economy must unlock new opportunities, we act as facilitators, bringing the right people together at the right time.
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White papersUnified Global Alternatives – Hedge Funds Bulletin
Risk assets were broadly positive in January on the back of optimism related to the expected pro-business and America first policies of the new US administration. In Equity Hedged, US Equity Hedged strategies generally produced positive returns. The majority of managers generated gains, with the highest absolute performance and value-add resulting from TMT managers collectively.
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White papersO’Connor Global Multi-Strategy Alpha Monthly Letter: Exploring the impacts of demographic changes
With the prospect of continued higher rates, encompassing a key debate within the market, we see the topic of demographics worth exploring for this month’s letter. For years, a common narrative around demographics has been driven by the experience in Japan – that an aging population is deflationary and longer life expectancies lead to greater savings for retirement and push down the equilibrium interest rate.
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White papersStrategy Outlook: Unified Global Alternatives - Hedge Funds First Quarter 2025
Unified Global Alternatives Hedge Funds (UGA HF) Broad Based Diversified (BBD) and Broad Based Neutral (BBN) portfolios generated positive results in Q4, experiencing profits across our four main strategies (Equity Hedged, Trading, Credit / Income, and Relative Value).
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White papersHedge Fund Outlook H1 2025
HF to lure more interest after a strong 2024 vintage for alpha
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White papersO’Connor Global Multi-Strategy Alpha Monthly Letter: Outlook for China in 2025
Heading into 2025, US exceptionalism may be one of the most consensus views in the market. With Trump retaking power, there are Goldilocks expectations for the early part of the year with anticipated tailwinds such as deregulation, improving corporate and consumer optimism and continued easing monetary policy.
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White papersHFS Bulletin: Monthly hedge fund update – November 2024
Risk assets were broadly higher in November, more than offsetting weaker prices from the prior month, as market caution ahead of the US election gave way to a more constructive outlook around the incoming administration. In Equity Hedged, US Equity Hedged strategies generally produced positive returns.
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White papersO’Connor Global Multi-Strategy Alpha Monthly Letter: Anticipated backdrop of greater deregulation and policy changes
The US elections dominated market conversations in November as the Republican party won decisively, with Donald Trump becoming only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988. In the subsequent weeks, we have seen the President-elect begin to nominate candidates for various cabinet positions, which has created plenty of sector-level volatility, particularly in areas relating to trade and healthcare
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BlogThe Case for Going Global, in Pictures
We’ve made the case—here, here, and here—that it’s generally a good time for fixed income given bonds’ revaluation to yields well above the secular stagnation levels that existed prior to the 2022 bear market. These higher yields, combined with the shift by most developed market central banks from rate hikes to cuts, suggest that this sleeper bull market is set to continue. But how does global fixed income fit within this context?
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White papersDiversify with real and alternative assets
Hedge funds (HF) to benefit from abundant alpha opportunities
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White papersHedge Fund Outlook H2 2024
Hedge Funds (HF) are up 4.2% year-to-date as of March 2024, which compares well with diversified global allocations, including 40/60 Equity/Bond portfolios which are up around +2.2% and have higher volatility. HF performance year-to-date was led by CTAs, EM focused and L/S Equity both Directional and Neutral. Overall, the HF industry continued to produce very strong alpha, up an estimated 6%+ y/y.
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White papersCIO views: finding value through patient investing
How and where can patience reward investors? Over time, how could patient investors find better value? Across asset classes, our CIOs seek out areas they believe are underestimated or mispriced by the market and could offer superior prospects to investors adopting a long-term approach.
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White papersPositioning: to the rescue of tech stocks
Last week’s focus was on real rates rising while growth stocks kept outperforming value ones. This week we follow up with a focus on one of the potential explanations to this situation: positioning.
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White papersPensions Watch | Issue 24: What’s been happening and what’s on the Horizon in the world of pensions
With the inexorable rise of Defined Contribution (DC) schemes and the continued closure of Defined Benefit (DB) schemes to new members and future accrual, suggestions that DB is dead are ever present. However, with funded DB schemes accounting for around 80% of UK pension assets, most of which are not going to buyout just yet, DB is very much alive and kicking.
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White papersMerger Arbitrage Investing: When Deals Fall Through
Why we believe a recent failed acquisition is a reminder to think twice about systematic approaches to merger arbitrage.
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White papersFinding the value in tail hedges
In financial markets, events that occur far outside of expectations are often characterised as tail events. They typically increase the level of volatility in the market, and they can happen both on the upside and the downside.
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White papersCryptonite
The FTX collapse is a blow to the idea of finance industry disruption and a potential source of volatility, but we think systemic contagion into broader financial markets is unlikely.
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PodcastCould Liquid Alternatives Provide Answers?
As we continue to navigate the current challenging investment environment, we look at the aspects of various asset class categories that could provide insight. As we transition into this new regime, investor demand for diversifiers have come into focus.
