Latest Manager Research – Page 114
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White papersPensions Watch 23: What’s been happening and what’s on the horizon in the world of pensions
The annual revision to the PLSA’s retirement living standards has seen double digit increases to each of its illustrative expenditures in retirement. This suggests that, without urgent reform, many DC savers will continue to sleepwalk into retirement penury.
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White papersNB Votes: The 2022 Proxy Season
In this challenging economic environment, we believe that quality corporate governance is crucial to creating shareholder value—and that active investment managers have a vital role to play on behalf of their clients.
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White papersInsurance Asset Allocation in the New Regime
After a year in which fixed income yields and capital market assumptions adjusted dramatically to a new regime, we believe it’s an opportune time to re-think insurance asset allocation.
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White papersThe More Things Change
Has recent strong data changed the fundamental economic and market outlook, or just the timeline?
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White papersModern Slavery in Mining Looms as a Key Risk to Investors
Awareness that modern slavery is a social evil and investment risk continues to grow, putting investors in a pivotal position to identify and root out this risk across industries. Global mining is a particular challenge: risks to people in this industry are high and rising, and they’re not well-managed when compared with high-risk consumer-facing industries such as technology and apparel.
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White papersManaging Unintended Risks—Avoiding Leaky Bucket Syndrome Exposure
Read the Special Global Equity team’s piece on how they prevent unintended risks from creating leaks in their excess return bucket.
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White papersCarbon credits: reinforcing quality for impact and returns
High-quality carbon credits offer a critical tool for channeling much-needed finance to protect and restore nature, and to create sustainable livelihoods for Indigenous and local communities. Following contentious press coverage in recent weeks, we highlight important actions being taken to enhance the ability of carbon credits to meet these challenges.
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White papersGreen hydrogen - The energy of the future
The development of green hydrogen as an energy source of the future offers numerous investment opportunities linked to the energy transition. While still a young industry, hydrogen was the fastest growing sector globally in 2022 among those contributing to this transition, with investment more than tripling from 2021.
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White papersItaly: where prudence meets potential
Italy’s large dependence on Russian gas and other commodity imports left it vulnerable to the war in Ukraine.
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White papersNFL Alpha: Appraising Arizona
For the 20th year, Allspring’s Systematic Edge team applied its quantitative research on low volatility stocks to the NFL in an effort to predict the postseason playoff winners and the winner of Super Bowl LVII.
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White papersFinding the value in tail hedges
In financial markets, events that occur far outside of expectations are often characterised as tail events. They typically increase the level of volatility in the market, and they can happen both on the upside and the downside.
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White papersGlobal Emerging Markets: Outlook 2023
Kunjal Gala and the Global Emerging Markets Equity team outline their views on the prospects for emerging markets in 2023 and beyond.
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White papersWhat Does the US Debt-Ceiling Breach Mean for Funding Markets?
US Treasuries have long been considered a safe haven for investors—a go-to refuge in turbulent times and the bedrock of global financial markets. That’s because Treasuries are highly liquid and are backed by the full faith and credit of the US government, which has never defaulted in all its 247 years.
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White papersEmerging Market Insights: Domestic demand in focus
China’s reopening and impact on energy prices. China’s economic reopening is proceeding swiftly, despite the spike in COVID-19 cases in early January.
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White papersInvestment opportunities in Latin America: Renewables, Nearshoring and Consumption
The Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity team discusses the three themes of renewables, nearshoring and consumption in Latin America from an investor perspective.
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White papersMacroeconomic Picture - February 2023
United States: The US economy has been showing signs of deceleration, as the fiscal and monetary policy drag weigh on activity, although at different intensity.
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White papersMarket Scenarios and Risks - February 2023
We revise the probabilities of our alternative scenarios. Some of the risk factors we identify may occur in our central scenario, which is probably not yet fully priced in, especially by equity markets.
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White papersWhy and what if inflation falls faster than expected?
”As fiscal support should wane, this could lead to lower inflation pressures in the second half of 2023 and to a faster decline in inflation”
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - February 2023
Uncertainty over growth, inflation and corporate earnings persists, even though there has been a mild improvement on the economic front. These trends underscore the need to be active and well diversified.
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White papersHoming in on income growth potential in real estate
Real estate markets may have entered a new phase in the cycle as revaluations play out. Yet positive structural drivers continue to underpin several subsectors. As such, we believe prospects for income and growth remain robust in the medium term.
