Latest Manager Research – Page 168
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White papersSchroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens September 2023: your go-to guide to global property markets
Our latest analysis highlights the key data and trends that matter to global real estate investors.
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White papersPM Perspectives: Global Equity Enhanced Income
Eddie Cheng, Vince Fioramonti, and Megan Miller manage components of Allspring’s Global Equity Enhanced Income (GEEI) strategy. Here they discuss how GEEI addresses the equity income tug-of-war.
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White papersAt the crossroads
Lack of movement on interest rates this week left investors wondering: Which way now?
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White papersThe Active Foundations of Sustainable Investing
As ESG and sustainability indices proliferate, we argue that sustainable investing is inherently an active management discipline.
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White papersPolitical Gridlock but Fiscal Largesse
How political dysfunction undermines debt sustainability and helps embed structurally higher inflation.
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White papersAsset Allocation at Official Institutions: Three Critical Steps
Three critical steps for asset allocation at Official Institutions: embrace less liquid markets; explore a fuller credit universe; think globally.
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White papers2023 Global Corporate Credit ESG Engagement Report
During the past year our established relationships with issuers in developed and emerging markets enabled us to have meaningful engagements with a number of management teams. We engaged on key ESG issues such as climate transition, equity, inclusion and diversity (EID), and executive compensation structure.
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White papersHow creative financial approaches can advance climate adaptation
Climate change increases the likelihood of weather-related natural disasters. Their occurrence has increased tenfold since the 1960s, resulting in estimated daily costs of about USD 383 million globally from 2010-2019. We believe the time to adapt to climate change is now and creative strategies can help. Alex Bernhardt explains.
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White papersFed Meeting Impact: Is It More Than You Realize?
This paper discusses how Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings have a significant impact on options pricing, creating risks and opportunities for investors employing options-based strategies.
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White papersWhat Biodiversity Loss Could Mean for the Global Economy
In Allspring’s new series, “Eye on SI,” we present perspectives on sustainable investing (SI) and discuss how various environmental and social themes can create investment risks and opportunities.
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White papersCan investment-grade credit provide resilience amid uncertainty
An uncertain economic outlook and high interest rates are generally not viewed as a positive backdrop for investment-grade (IG) corporate bonds (rated BBB/Baa and above). Yet, a confluence of supportive factors is underpinning this asset class. These include relatively good credit quality, high average starting yields above 5.5%, an overall duration of about seven years and stabilisation of the banking sector.
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White papersFed Holds Rates—Is This It?
At its September meeting, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed), as expected, left its federal funds target rate unchanged, at 5.25%–5.50%.
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White papersGlobal Equity ESG, H1 2023 Report
The Global Equity ESG team believes many sustainable businesses are undervalued and stand to be richly rewarded in the long term, particularly if AI lives up to its promise.
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White papersAsia Pacific Living: The largest scalable opportunity of the decade?
Asia Pacific’s growing urban population coupled with low housing affordability continues to drive demand for rented residential property in key cities. Changing mindsets and policies around renting, as well as higher interest rates, further suggest APAC Living could be a long-term, scalable opportunity.
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White papersDara to Know
Dara Friedman is on the defensive, and that’s intentional. BGO’s Core Plus manager talks about fighting back against market uncertainty.
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White papersWill there be a green hydrogen market in a decade’s time?
Green hydrogen offers answers to problems for which there are no other low carbon solutions. We expect it to become a big part of the net zero future – here’s how.
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White papersESG in private credit: A key differentiator?
Although ESG integration is still relatively nascent in the private debt sphere, advances are being made as lenders take into account the long-term risks entailed with debt issuance.
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White papersWhy living wages should be considered a driver of human capital value, not a cost
“Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.” Article 23 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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White papersUnderstanding and responding to the human cost of the green energy transition
As the world moves towards a low-carbon economy it will require a massive increase in the production of so-called transition minerals. These lie at the heart of an expected surge in demand for clean energy technologies.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - September 2023
Much less fiscal policy support will likely constrain domestic demand and higher-for-longer interest rates will make monetary policy even more restrictive.
