Latest Manager Research – Page 10
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Real estate is ideal for impact investing
BpfBOUW and ABP demonstrated a significant commitment to sustainable development by jointly allocating €400 million to the Dutch Social Impact Real Estate Partnership, managed by Bouwinvest.
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Investing in Asian new economy real estate
The global real estate market is well known for its compelling characteristics, offering long-term, stable yields to institutional investors. However, with continued economic and geopolitical uncertainty, as well as a complex global interest rate environment, it is increasingly important that investors choose the appropriate markets and sectors to maximise their returns.
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AI is transforming the data center
Artificial intelligence (AI), formerly relegated to the pages of scientific journals and science fiction narratives, is now permeating the fabric of our everyday lives—and transforming the data center in the process.
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Fundraising in infrastructure - A return to the market buzz
Sentiment for infrastructure was muted in 2023. Although very few investors we spoke to were outright negative on the asset class, most have taken a “wait and see” approach, especially given the denominator effect.
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Digital infrastructure — the next chapter
Gaining technology-agnostic exposure to technology megatrends
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Regenerative real estate investing
Despite an enviable long-term growth record, the U.S. economy hasn’t benefited all groups of U.S. society equally. Growth disproportionately favors higher-net-worth individuals who have benefited not only from higher paying jobs, but also from wealth creation related to home and financial asset ownership. As a result, rising socioeconomic inequality has become one of the biggest challenges of our time.
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Beyond numbers: Using Data Intelligence to identify investment opportunities in real estate
AI-driven Data Intelligence is transforming real estate by uncovering previously hidden trends. Data Intelligence enables informed decisions by combing vast datasets like those provided by multiple listing systems to reveal insights like trends in yield compression.
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Consider This: European Union elections
EU citizens go to the polls in June—here’s a look at the investment implications from Franklin Templeton Institute’s Kim Catechis.
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Unlocking opportunities: Understanding the growing secondary market
The global secondary market has grown over the past three decades primarily because of the increased supply of capital committed to private investment funds, according to Lexington Partners. They believe the backdrop for the secondary market in 2024 continues to remain attractive.
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LOIM Stewardship in 2023: pushing for ambitious action
How does LOIM go about helping companies become fit for the future while supporting long-term portfolio objectives? Decarbonisation, nature and best-practice governance were foremost on our stewardship agenda in 2023. We explore this in depth in our annual report to the Financial Reporting Council, which can be accessed here.
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Diversified approach in focus
“Multi-asset investing may help access attractive bond yields while also exploring opportunities from a resilient economic outlook, in particular in European equities.”
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Regenerative agriculture: definition, implementation, and impact
Feeding a growing population in a world of increasingly scarce natural resources will require sustainable solutions, which is where regenerative agriculture could play a critical role. For investors, building and sustainably managing a globally diversified portfolio of agricultural assets can generate competitive risk-adjusted returns while providing socioeconomic and environmental ...
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Stock-Bond Correlation: Theory & Empirical Results
Stock-bond correlation is an important component of portfolio allocation. It is widely used by institutional investors to determine strategic asset allocation, and is carefully monitored by multi-asset fund managers to implement tactical asset allocation. Over the past 20 years, the correlation between stock and bond returns in the US has been negative, while it was largely positive prior to the dot-com crisis.
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Real and alternative assets in focus in the strategic asset allocation
Our 2024 CMA outlines the general attractiveness of real and alternative assets compared to listed assets and confirms good opportunities in terms of risk/return profiles. The attractiveness of these assets is linked to the remuneration for the liquidity risk exposure.
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PEI Secondaries Roundtable: Private Markets’ Most Undercapitalized Asset Class
In a roundtable conducted by PEI, Ben Perl and other market leaders discuss the growth potential and opportunity set within the secondaries space, while also commenting on the issue of limited liquid capital available.
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The Coming Wave of Homebuyers
How higher rates for longer could be positive for U.S. consumption.
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Navigating key questions in fixed income investments
This paper contains our latest views based on data analysis using the Franklin Templeton Institute US Fixed Income Navigator (FIN), with a special emphasis on elevated volatility, the potential for interest rate cuts, and a shift to a brighter bond market environment.
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Irish banks: a classic turnaround tale… and opportunity
In April, with little fanfare, AIB (Allied Irish Bank) became the first Irish bank to issue a 10-year dollar senior benchmark bond.It was popular with investors: the bank borrowed $1 billion with orders of $7 billion. It was priced at 160bps over Treasuries – a similar level at which we would expect the larger UK and French banks to issue. This confirms that Irish banks are back to their rightful place in the eyes of credit investors.
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Fixed Income – A new era for bonds
Surging inflation brought an end to the decade-long era of low bond yields. In the decade ahead, we believe bond yields will not return to the near-zero levels of the recent past or see the steady capital appreciation which marked the prior 30 years. Instead, our view is that inflation and real yields are more likely to remain closer to their long-term averages, supported by central bank policy, changing supply/demand dynamics, and the risk that inflation could spike again.
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Plastic wrap: from seaweed biopolymers to Europe’s new law for cutting packaging waste
Scaling up seaweed-based biopolymers, major investments is chemical recycling and the ratification of a European law to reduce packaging waste are among the developments covered in this issue of Plastic wrap, our bimonthly review of the science, policy and corporate activity pivotal in creating a circular plastics value chain.