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White papersHow EM Investors Can Succeed in a Dovish Monetary Backdrop
Central bank support should not shift investor focus away from fundamentals.
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5 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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Boardroom Briefing: Engaging a New Generation of Investors
At our recent Global Investor Forum, we hosted a panel of prominent fintech entrepreneurs who shared their thoughts on the rationale for—and challenges of—appealing to Millennial customers.
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Blog | What’s on tap for the “Goldilocks” US equity market in the second half?
As we enter the second half of 2019, Goldilocks continues to walk a tightrope as US investors balance the potential benefits of Fed easing with continued weak global leading economic indicators, lingering trade jitters and elevated valuations, says Alec Young, FTSE Russell managing director of global markets research.
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Turning Big Data into Big Investment Insights
What do airline ticket prices, car sales and thousands of corporate filings have in common? In each of these areas, we applied advanced big data techniques to tackle an equity investing conundrum that couldn’t be solved by human researchers alone.
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China's Sci-Tech Board: Hope Or Hype?
What the new Nasdaq-Style exchange could mean for investors.
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Investment Professional of the Future - Changing Roles, Skills, and Organisational Cultures
As the investment industry undergoes accelerating change, the investment professional of the future must adapt and embrace new challenges and opportunities for career success.
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How Machine Learning Can Help Bond Investors
When a group of graduate students asked Warren Buffett about the best way to prepare for an investing career, he held up a stack of Securities and Exchange Commission filings. “Read 500 pages like this every day,” he told them. “That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
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Cracking the Code: Investment Management Tackles Data Science
Data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are hot topics in investment management, as firms look for new ways to model investing problems and generate differentiated insights. But data science is also relatively new to the industry—and that means growing pains. What does it take to get it right?
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Variance Premium, Downside Risk, And Expected Stock Returns
We decompose total variance into its bad and good components and measure the premia associated with their fluctuations using stock and option data from a large cross-section of firms. The total variance risk premium (VRP) represents the premium paid to insure against fluctuations in bad variance (called bad VRP), net of the premium received to compensate for fluctuations in good variance (called good VRP).
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International Stock Market Co-Movements And Politics-Related Risks
We investigate the determinants of international stock market co-movements, shedding light on the relevance of politics-related factors. We propose a new characterization for the link connecting politics and financial markets, disentangling two different components: political risk and economic policy risk. We uncover the surprisingly low correlation between the two variables, and show they are priced differently by the market.
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Investors should note the approaching tipping point for renewable energy
Renewable energy may soon put downward, not upward, pressure on energy prices, prompting a much faster move away from fossil fuels.
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The Road Back To The 70s: Implications For Investors
History shows that the economy and financial markets are dominated by long-term regimes that at some point come to a break point, where one regime gives way to a new one. This shift may not be easy to detect. Trapped in their comfort zones, with a short-term perspective, few may see it coming.
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Factor behavior through the cycle
Factors have become an influential force in investors’ decision-making processes, buttressed by a growing body of academic and financial industry research that has affirmed the effectiveness of factors in driving risk and returns.
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Asset Manager News
Amplified: There’s more than one side to any investment story
We are now in the tail end of the second quarter of an already eventful year, with investors facing a range of stark choices.
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Nuveen knows: why engagement matters
As global investors, we believe that responsible investing business practices lower risk, improve financial performance and drive positive social and environmental outcomes, providing enduring benefits to our clients and communities.
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Global fixed income: it’s time for investors to stay watchful and nimble
In the space of just 12 months, markets have switched from expecting interest rate rises to expecting interest rate falls. Broadly speaking, this means 2019 should be a good year for fixed income. But investors are treading a fine line and need to differentiate between fixed income strategies.
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Indian elections: political continuity is positive but reform is what matters most
Prime Minister Modi led the NDA to a sweeping victory, with a full majority in Parliament and therefore significant political capital. There was some apprehension in the market ahead of the election and a clear majority will certainly soothe nerves.
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An introduction to securitisation: a diverse opportunity set offering attractive excess return potential
Securitisation can be seen as highly technical, niche and (post-2008) perceived as risky, but its highly diverse range of opportunities can bring significant benefits to a portfolio.
