All Investors articles – Page 11
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Signal changes: why finance is warming to AI
Fiorino tracks the AI journey from sci-fi to hi-fi(nance) and where the faux-human tech may take the real financial industry next…
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Upcoming: Principal Speaker Series – A conversation with Dr. Lawrence H. Summers
Join us as we welcome Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, immediately following the pivotal March FOMC meeting. Seema Shah, Managing Director, Chief Global Strategist at Principal Global Investors, will host a timely and engaging conversation on the state of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve’s response, and how investors can prepare for the volatile period ahead.
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Senior Floating Rate Loans: A Low-Cost Hedge Against Inflation
Headline CPI inflation in the U.S. came in at 7.5% year-over-year in January 2022, its highest level since the mid-1980s. Before the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalated, market participants held the view that the Federal Reserve was well behind the curve on rate hikes as the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury reached a near-term peak of 2.05% on February 15.
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ETF Observations on Russia
Investors are reminded within the current environment to take a broad perspective across a variety of asset classes and geographies and to weigh short-term developments against longer-term factors.
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Shifts & Narratives #14 - Russia conflict marks a further step in the road back to the ‘70s
In recent history, geopolitical crises have tended to be short-lived and after an initial sell-off they provide buying opportunities for investors. It’s tempting to see a similar pattern in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which would explain why markets have been on a roller-coaster, with a fast recovery expected for any perceived positive development, after the initial negative shock when Russia launched its unexpected large scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.
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Research Report
Primonial Reim Germany Convictions
The Research & Strategy Department’s role is to formalize Primonial REIM’s real estate investment strategies, based on continuous monitoring of the European markets. By nature, real estate is at the crossroads of financial (interest rates), economic (tenants), demographic and social factors. This is why a broad analysis is needed, which is also long term and therefore matches the horizon of most real estate investors.
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Credit Pulse: market update – 25 February 2022
In this Credit Pulse, we use analysis from our February Credit Strategy Meeting (CSM) and discuss the challenges we see arising in the markets and how the expectations formed a few months ago are challenged in the present environment.
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Tackling climate change through outcomes-focused stewardship
With the publication by EOS at Federated Hermes of the 2021 Annual Review of engagement and voting highlights, Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, head of EOS, reflects on the climate crisis and the challenges it will pose for investors in 2022 and beyond.
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What are the merits of a public-private equity investment approach?
Combining public and private equity investments in the same portfolio brings investors the best of both worlds.
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Getting along – Can investors influence geopolitics to improve climate action?
The outcome of the 2021 COP26 climate conference showed that, despite nations planning their own environmental efforts, collective climate action is difficult to foster. What does this mean for investors? Is there any way governments can be swayed into working together more effectively?
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What’s the outlook for European asset-backed securities in 2022?
European asset-backed securities (ABS) outperformed many other areas of fixed income last year as investors were drawn by their floating rate properties and supportive fundamentals, including a resilient labour market and low arrears in underlying asset pools. But how strong is the outlook for securitisations in 2022?
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Asset Manager News
Bouwinvest raises €836 million in capital, welcomes 10 new clients in 2021
Bouwinvest Real Estate Investors raised €836 million in capital in 2021 and welcomed 10 new clients, including pension fund Notariaat and Centramed.
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How can investors ensure a “just transition” in climate change fight?
A dollar invested in emerging and frontier markets can do more for the climate emergency than one invested in developed markets, but we must ensure plans are fair to all.
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The vital role of investors in the carbon transition
Pre-COVID-19, the transition to a low carbon economy was already enjoying several tailwinds. But the onset of the pandemic has fuelled this drive as companies, governments and investors appear to have galvanised their efforts like never before in a bid to tackle climate change.
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*Spotting the mega trends and the potential winners*
A number of mega trends are set to shape our world as it emerges from the pandemic, including disruptive forces that were already in place before Covid. For investors, this is a time to pay close attention: Uncertainty creates opportunities and to capitalise on disruption, you must be able to identify the long-term beneficiaries.
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Unigestion Global Macro: A Unified Approach For Systematic And Discretionary Macro Investing
All investors construct their portfolios to achieve the goals that matter most to them, while contending with their constraints.
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Resilient Recovery Stocks Transcend the Growth-Value Divide
Investors are reassessing which types of companies will thrive in the next stage of the recovery amid the recent rebound of value stocks. But we think the distinguishing performance factor will be a company’s ability to generate sustainable earnings, regardless of its style classification.
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Asset Manager News
The end of LIBOR: implications for investors
The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is one of the main interest-rate benchmarks used in global financial markets. By the end of 2021, LIBOR reference rates and other interbank offered rates (IBORs) will be retired. What will replace LIBOR and other IBORs, and what does this mean for investors?
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Chinese New Year: How Investors Might Navigate Markets In The Year Of The Ox
What’s in store in the Year of the Ox—are our portfolio managers bullish, or will the year play out like a bull in a china shop? Read their outlook.
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Four Themes for Insurance Asset Management in 2021
Insurers have fared relatively well through the pandemic, but there is likely a long and uneven road to recovery ahead. With this in mind, there are four key themes worth considering for insurance company investors in the months to come.