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White papersHow can insurers position credit portfolios amid higher risk and uncertainty?
Insurers face a challenging credit landscape, with spreads near historic tights and limited dispersion. As uncertainty persists, strategies focused on credit quality, liquidity, and spread duration are gaining traction. Evolving regulations and underutilised asset classes, like high-quality structured credit, offer new opportunities to strengthen portfolios and enhance long-term resilience.
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White papersDivergence calls for diversification: Asia’s investors look to Europe
Over more than a decade, many Asian countries have looked beyond their own borders for long-term investment opportunities, with significant amounts of capital being directed towards the US. This year we note that Asian investors are increasingly aiming at rebalancing their portfolios, with European assets deemed as an attractive alternative.
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White papersBeyond politics: Unlocking the value of diversity and inclusion
While recent political pushback has seen diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) slip down the agenda, we believe there are still significant opportunities for investors in this area. Thembeka Stemela-Dagbo, Sustainable and Impact Equities Fund Manager, explores the key reasons for investors to promote DEI, and the potential risks of failing to do so.
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White papersMIM Q3 2025 Private Credit Quarterly Review and Outlook
MetLife Investment Management originated approximately $11.5B across private credit markets in Q3 2025, driven by strong investor demand and disciplined execution across corporate private placements, infrastructure debt and asset-based finance. Activity remained diversified across sectors, supported by attractive spreads, stable credit fundamentals and an improving interest rate outlook. ...
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White papersIn the public versus private debate, who’s winning?
Private markets have increasingly captured investor attention over recent years. However, public markets still dominate most portfolios. Here, the chief investment officers (CIOs) of M&G Investments debate the merits and drawbacks from choosing one over the other.
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White papersThe Search for Goldilocks
Moving into the final quarter of the year, investors face a series of questions around key macroeconomic variables that will define the growth and risk asset outlook for 2026, and hope that the balance will get things “just right.”
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White papersLiquidity: Looking on the bright side
Trump’s pressure on the Fed notwithstanding, the money markets have much to celebrate.
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White papersAlternative realities: Behind the headlines of the private markets megatrend
Alternative investments have transitioned from peripheral allocations to central pillars of institutional and private wealth portfolios. Amid persistent inflation, rising interest rates, and global uncertainty, investors are questioning the viability of traditional 60/40 portfolios. The shift is driven by the need for diversification, durable yield, and reduced reliance on public markets. Structures like multimanager platforms, evergreen formats, and curated fund-of-funds are enabling broader access. Private market AuM reached USD 11.7 trillion in mid-2022, with private wealth expected to contribute up to USD 1.3 trillion by year-end. The focus is now on how best to allocate, not whether to do so.
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White papersReconciling Prime Market and Fund-level Returns
The strong long-term correlation between our usual European prime market returns and European fund-level returns provides a solid basis for testing whether we can use prime market returns to project fund returns.
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White papersInvestment Update: Focus on mid-rent homes
“The demand for mid-rent homes in the Netherlands is higher than ever,” says Peter Koppers, Director of Investment Management, in Achmea Real Estate’s latest Investment Update. “Mid-rent offers starters and middle-income households access to affordable and good-quality housing, often in locations where work and amenities are close by. There are opportunities here for institutional investors: the combination of a stable return and a demonstrable social contribution makes this segment particularly attractive.”
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PodcastThe ABCs of Asset-Based Credit
Asset-based credit is reshaping the private credit landscape, offering investors new ways to diversify portfolios with the potential to capture higher yields amid market volatility. As banks pull back from certain lending markets and consumer behaviors evolve, asset-based credit stands out for its short duration, high yield, and low correlation to corporate credit.
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White papersEquities Broaden Out, at Last
This quarter has seen a further broadening in the equities story that has unfolded since the start of the year. Future bouts of market volatility are expected, but this story is unlikely to fade.
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White papersPerspectives Financial Markets
Perspectives Financial Markets provides comprehensive coverage of the latest financial market developments, offering in-depth analysis of global trends and market developments.
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White papersMIM 2Q 2025 Private Credit Quarterly Review and Outlook
Private Credit markets delivered robust performance through the first half of 2025, driven by exceptional investor demand and recordbreaking transaction volumes. Despite elevated interest rate volatility and shifting macroeconomic conditions, market participants demonstrated resilience with more than $50 billion of corporate transactions recorded year-to-date.
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White papersNothing Burger: The Drivers Behind US Cattle Herd Size Stagnation
Since the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) started publishing US cattle herd size data in 1973, a persistent downward trend has been present through time with only a few local peaks. In fact, as of the end of 2024, the US cattle herd size reached the lowest level on record and is more than thirty-percent smaller than the peak size it reached in 1974, and only four-fifths of the average size from 1973 to 2024 despite rising cattle prices over the same period. Cattle herd size is cyclical, with a typical cycle length of about ten years.
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White papersEngagement Case study: ANTA Sports Products
How we engaged with a China-based sportswear company
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White papersWhich indices have surprised on the upside?
As summer season in the northern hemisphere begins to wrap up, we take a rollcall of the indices that have outdone themselves so far this year.
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White papers360° Fixed Income Report: How not to be a deer caught in the ‘headlines’
Read our latest 360° fixed income report to learn more about our credit team’s outlook for macro, fundamental and technical forces.
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VideoThe AI toolbox
Damien Zhang and the MDT team look at artificial intelligence as a toolbox, not a black box. From large language models to machine learning, the team pick and choose the right tools to sharpen their investment process.
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White papersOil and gas: The case for higher returns
Oil and gas companies have historically delivered modest returns despite a favorable environment – averaging just 10% over 30 years. Now, rising political volatility, climate litigation, and competition from clean technologies have increased the risks for the sector. Yet, companies are targeting the same returns. Investors must demand more.
