All Investors articles – Page 5
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White papersIs the U.S. Shutdown Impact About to Hit?
While U.S. consumer sentiment has broadly held up, it may begin to crumble in certain segments, potentially impacting the sector at its most important time.
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White papersThe AI Story Isn’t Going in Circles
Skeptics of “circular” dealmaking within the AI industry may be missing the point.
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White papersGlobal macro outlook: From policy divergence to structural dispersion
2026 shifts from monetary to fiscal dominance, with diverging growth paths across the U.S. deficit expansion, Europe’s €800 billion German investment surge, Japan’s normalization, China’s structural adjustment, and AI-driven productivity gains reshaping the macro environment. This policy-led backdrop creates relative value opportunities from infrastructure credit and periphery bonds to hedged Japanese equities and AI-ecosystem exposure—requiring active management to capture dispersion across multiple fiscal regimes.
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White papersEurope CRE deal volume down in 3Q, but green shoots emerge
Despite a contraction in CRE deal volume in 3Q, the article notes emerging “green shoots” of recovery, suggesting that selective activity and improving market sentiment may signal a nascent rebound in European CRE markets.
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White papersAre we in an AI bubble?
In the past few weeks, I have been struck by the volume of media coverage focusing on whether investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is driving the market toward an “AI bubble.”
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White papersAmerica’s housing opportunity: Beyond the supply gap
Rentership remains a cornerstone at approximately 35% of U.S. households, the rental market goes well beyond apartments, and the central challenge is not only undersupply — but a mismatch between the types and locations of housing relative to where demand exists.
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White papersSecuritised Products Reform: Unlocking Value for Insurance Companies
Proposed EU reforms represent a comprehensive overhaul of the securitisation regulations that, if implemented, would reduce regulatory burdens and lower capital requirements.
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White papersPre-COP30 Investor Outlook: Key Themes for Belém
The 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) is likely to deliver incremental rather than transformative progress, as most countries remain misaligned with the Paris Agreement and net-zero pathways.
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White papersNavigate today’s markets for tomorrow’s outcomes
Amid economic and demographic shifts, investors are encouraged to stay focused on long-term goals, using diversified portfolios and disciplined retirement strategies to navigate short-term volatility and build future resilience.
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White papersInvesting in unstoppable trends
Early in my career as an equity analyst covering newspapers and the Internet, I learned a valuable lesson.
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White papersGlobal Outlook 2026
We expect that growth will be modestly positive throughout 2026. The wealthier strata of consumers continue to spend, supported by the strong market valuations and stability in the labor markets.
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White papersPowering the digital age: Data center trends and opportunities
The piece highlights the accelerating demand for data centers as critical infrastructure in the digital economy, pointing to potential long-term real-estate growth driven by technological adoption, cloud demand and structural shifts in real-assets use.
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White papersGlobal equities overcome obstacles, remain in rally mode
Global equities delivered solid third-quarter results in 2025, with emerging markets leading non-U.S. benchmarks through nine consecutive positive months while U.S. shares rebounded from April’s tariff-driven selloff with the S&P 500’s best September since 2010. Despite diverging monetary policy, the Federal Reserve cutting rates to support a softening labor market while the ECB and BoJ held steady, equities rallied amid trade concerns and shifting earnings expectations. A broadly neutral stance balances growth-oriented U.S. technology stocks benefiting from AI with more defensive positioning in dividend growers, global infrastructure and utilities, which offer attractive income, lower volatility and exposure to rapidly expanding energy demand despite elevated valuations in some market pockets.
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White papersComfortable being uncomfortable: Maintaining conviction
As an investor, you need to have an edge that allows you to build solid performance – if you don’t know what that edge is, or how to articulate it, you’ll likely deliver the same returns as everyone else
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White papersHome away from home? Europe and APAC living sectors’ appeal amid US uncertainty
Amid economic fluctuations and fraying geopolitical ties, investors are reassessing their reliance on US assets. The unfolding ‘great rotation’ shifts attention toward Europe and Asia-Pacific, where the resilient residential or ‘living’ sectors within the real estate market present appealing returns in uncertain times. With secular tailwinds in housing supply and student mobility, Noura Tan asks, can these markets lead the way toward future growth?
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White papersThe Nuance in Net Zero
Effective measurement of progress toward net-zero alignment has never been more important to investors and companies that have adopted net-zero ambitions.
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VideoPortfolio Finance: 101
In this animated explainer video, we unpack what portfolio finance is, why it’s gaining traction, and how it’s helping investors tap into private markets with flexibility, diversification, and downside protection.
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White papersHow can investors lean into blended finance structures: demystifying credit enhancements
Blended finance structures are key to deploying catalytic capital coming from public, philanthropic, and private sector sources. The combination of the three allow for investors to pool essential capital meeting sustainable or development financing needs (e.g., SDGs, NDCs) in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs).
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White papersLots of game left as we enter the fourth quarter
Bond markets have been in ‘white out’ mode recently.
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VideoDefining and refining the lower mid-market opportunity
In this video series, Brooks Harrington, CIO, Federated Hermes Private Equity, explains why the lower-mid market offers investors some of the industry’s most compelling opportunities.
