All Inflation articles – Page 24
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Opportunities across the credit spectrum for multi-sector income investors
As central banks near the end of hiking cycles, the environment is becoming increasingly supportive for fixed income.
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Learnings from Earnings: Macro Crosscurrents Make Growth Elusive
Markets are being shaped by disparate trends from falling energy prices to rising interest rates. During first-quarter earnings season, company reports indicated that these crosscurrents are intensifying business challenges—and making it harder for investors to find resilient sources of growth.
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Connecting the Disinflation Dots in Multi-Asset Strategies
The Federal Reserve’s latest 0.25% interest-rate hike has likely capped one of its most aggressive policy-tightening cycles in 40 years. And the cumulative 5% policy rate increase in just over a year is now starting to have an effect on rate-sensitive sectors and inflation.
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Financial stability concerns back to the fore
In this macroeconomic update, Silvia Dall’Angelo, Senior Economist, reflects on the scenarios that have influenced markets this quarter, including fragility in the banking sector and the US/China tech ’Cold War’.
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Real estate forecasting and physical risk: A brief climate story
Incorporating physical climate risk into real estate valuations is no easy task. Olivia Muir, Head of Sustainability – Real Estate & Private Markets, offers some reflections on what to consider.
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Finding the silver linings: Private Equity International interview with Markus Benzler on the future of private equity
Public market corrections, inflation, increasing interest rates and political uncertainty are all having an impact on LPs’ capacity to invest in private equity. This is already leading to a knock-on effect on private equity fundraising, but what might this mean for the industry over the short to medium term? And where are the bright spots for investors in today’s environment and beyond? Markus Benzler, head of multi-managers private equity at UBS Asset Management, gives his take on how the market will evolve.
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Navigating Uncertainty— Risks and Opportunities in Commercial Real Estate
Rapid shifts in the global economic and capital markets are exerting strong influences on U.S. commercial real estate.
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European Real Estate: Structural Reprice, But Secular Trends Endure
Barring capital market events and refinancing risks, the opportunity to invest at or near the bottom of the European property cycle appears close. The Barings Real Estate team discusses.
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Infrastructure debt: An essential ingredient
With inflation returning and investors on the hunt for stable yields, insurance companies should explore how an infrastructure debt allocation can support their investment strategy.
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Market update first quarter 2023
Despite a slowdown in economic growth due to last year’s inflation shock, the Dutch economy has shown itself adaptable and resilient.
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The Cost of Waiting for Goldilocks
Janet Rilling and Danny Sarnowski discuss the costs investors can face as they wait for a “Goldilocks moment” to add duration to their fixed income portfolios.
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Is This the Final Fed Hike, for Now?
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to hike its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, by 25 basis points (bps; 100 bps equal 1.00%), to a range of 5.00% to 5.25%. Despite the banking sector’s ongoing wobbles—most recently, First Republic Bank’s takeover by JP Morgan over the past weekend—the FOMC sees fighting inflation as its highest priority.
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Bond Investors May Find Most Rate Pivot Potential in UK, EU
As consumers suffer the biggest inflation hit in 50 years, bond investors must anticipate how quickly prices will stabilize, when interest rates will fall and which fixed-income markets can provide the best pay-offs.
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The Inflation Reduction Act: implications for U.S. timberland and agriculture
Aiming to reduce carbon emissions by approximately 40% by 2030, this legislation represents the single largest investment in climate and clean energy solutions in American history. We examine its potential impact on foresters and farmers—and on investments in U.S. timberland and agriculture.
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European market volatility provides real estate debt opportunity
Market conditions remain volatile amid higher interest rates, inflation and the threat of looming recession. In such an environment, investors are struggling to meet return requirements. However, asset classes such as commercial real estate (CRE) debt could offer the potential for value across short, medium and long-term timeframes, while adding effective portfolio diversification.
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European real estate: the core plus opportunity
In a world of volatile markets and rising inflation, core plus real estate can offer investors diversification benefits, inflation protection and a strong, sustainable income stream.
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Real estate in an era of inflation
In a climate of rising inflation, real estate investments can offer attractive returns.
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Impact Investing - for investors who want to make a difference
As the scientific evidence of climate change is becoming increasingly indisputable, impact investing has become a prominent and necessary aspect of investing.
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Fixed Income: the road ahead
Recent crises within US regional banks and the more idiosyn- cratic case of Credit Suisse have various underlying causes. However, the overall context of these issues is undoubtedly the sudden and significant tightening of financial conditions in the past year.
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Where next for inflation?
Inflation is by far the most crucial investment consideration today, yet it’s not all bad news for long-term investors. In this paper, our Research, ESG and Investment teams explain the factors shaping their inflation outlook, the dynamics behind resilient equity markets, why ESG and sustainable development is here to stay despite short- term price pressures, and where to find investment opportunities in today’s uncertain environment.