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White papersCredit investing in the coronavirus era: 360°, Q3 2020 - August 2020
The SDG Engagement Equity Fund focuses on attractive companies with the potential – through engagement aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – to generate outcomes that benefit people, the planet and investors. Here we demonstrate how we are engaging with current holding Brunswick to create positive impacts on society.
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White papersBuild, build, build: the road to recovery and returns?
Infrastructure is in the spotlight as governments look to repair their economies after Covid-19. We look at how infrastructure equity works and where we see the best opportunities.
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White papersThe Future of Climate Change
It is undeniable that the global economy and real estate portfolios are being tested by the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has also accentuated the link between the economy and the drivers of climate change.
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White papersFighting infection – animal welfare and antimicrobial resistance
The coronavirus has highlighted the importance of being well prepared to respond to emerging global health threats. In the fourth article in our pandemic series, Dr Emma Berntman looks at animal farming and the growing risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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White papersTaking savings seriously
A penny saved may be a penny earned, but you still have to save it, and this is a task that’s getting harder and harder in today’s complex financial world. That’s where the Asset Allocation team of the Quantitative Research Group (QRG) at BNP Paribas Asset Management comes in. It seeks to give clients access to all possible financial tools with which they are most likely to secure and increase their savings over the long term.
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White papersTaming the Golden Geese (Without Killing Them)
After rising to the challenge of making lockdowns livable, technology firms and their investors face a trickier future than ever.
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White papersEuropean Real Estate: Where the Opportunities are Today
Barings Real Estate’s Valeria Falcone describes how COVID-19 has changed the competitive dynamics across European property markets, and highlights where the team is finding and creating value today.
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White papersA Strategic Investment Case for Core European Property
COVID-19 has devastated global economies, challenging existing paradigms for investors attempting to navigate uncertain times. While identifying investment opportunities is challenging given the dislocation to the economy and capital markets, we examine key attributes of core European real estate and ascertain that a strategic case can be made for its consideration in long-term investment portfolios.
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White papersCOVID-19: Caution is the playbook halfway through the year
More than half-way through what has been an unprecedented and eventful year, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the world economy. It is certainly fair to say that the COVID-19 pandemic is an exogenous shock most forecasters would have struggled to foresee and qualifies as a classic “black swan” event with a very long fat left tail.
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White papersPerspectives on Emerging Markets Investing
The first half of 2020 witnessed an unexpected shock that unsettled markets around the world and abruptly ended a 10-year, record-long expansion. Emerging market (EM) economies—profoundly distinct and at different stages of development—have weathered the COVID-19 storm better than expected, yet many face longer-term headwinds.
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White papersUsing the EU taxonomy as a guide to sustainable recovery
The current COVID-19 induced economic crisis offers companies a unique chance for genuine transformation.
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White papersCautious Consumers Await Fourth Fiscal Stimulus Bill
U.S. politicians will continue negotiating the next fiscal package. The July employment report will likely be weak due to rising uncertainty, cautious consumers, and greater restrictive measures. Meanwhile, next week’s BoE meeting is expected to strike a bearish tone.
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White papersA Summer Setback in Jobs Doesn’t Mean a Double-Dip Recession
The odds are rising that July will produce a poor employment report in the U.S. Nevertheless, as long as Congress delivers a fourth stimulus bill that continues to support the incomes of those out of work, the U.S. economy should be able to continue its slow recovery.
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White papersVulnerability to Default in Emerging Markets
While emerging markets sovereign defaults are at levels not seen since 2001 this year, rapid policy responses are helping to avoid the worst—furthermore, we believe the corporate default rate for 2020 could be lower than in 2009 or even 2016.
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White papersCovid 19 And Private Debt Markets
There is no doubt that news surrounding COVID-19 and the fascinating volatility in the publicly traded markets due to this global pandemic have captivated nearly everyone’s attention in recent months. The private credit markets, which tend to be less thoroughly discussed, are similarly dealing with unprecedented dynamics.
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White papersAEW Research Flash Report - July 2020
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, occupiers are reassessing their needs for office space as working from home has been implemented. On the back of the 2020 GDP decline, we forecast prime office rents to come down by nearly 10% this year. So far, in 2020 Q2 take-up is down over 20% and vacancy has ticked up by 20 bps from a record low of 5.4% in Q1 2020.
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White papersSDG Engagement Equity commentary: Brunswick
In April, EOS at Federated Hermes published a white paper – Investor Expectations for Global Plastic Challenges. This set out the scale and complexity of the problem and offered investors ways to engage with companies in three key sectors – chemicals, consumer goods and retail.
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White papersFixed Income: They Blinded Us from Science
Dr. Sonal Desai unveils the first insights from the new Franklin Templeton-Gallup research project on behavioral response to COVID-19.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views – August 2020
As we enter the summer, conflicting forces in major equity markets have led to a period of temporary equilibrium between fear(risk of second wave, low bond yields, high gold prices) and greed (equities rallying as a result of economies reopening). The big question for investors now is: where do we go from here?
