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Resilient private credit fills a growing need across U.S. and Europe
The U.S. and European private credit markets have been a significant success story of asset management for the last decade.
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Global Investment Views - January 2024
”While the year-end rally may offer some tactical opportunities, we keep a sightly cautious view on equities as markets are priced for a Goldilocks scenario.”
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How to decarbonise real estate
We explain how investors can quantify the carbon footprint of real estate portfolios and set out decarbonisation pathways.
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Aligning equity multifactor strategies with net zero objectives
Investing in ways that contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and beyond is increasingly a concern for most investors, in particular institutional investors. For this reason, we have studied various approaches to aligning our multifactor equity strategies with net zero objectives.
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2024 private credit outlook: A question of balance
Caution is needed if a recession does arrive.
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2024 Real Assets outlook: A brave new world?
In his annual outlook, Global Head of Investment Strategy & Research Rob Martin considers long-term performance as the combination of structural tailwinds and cyclical opportunities.
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Private Equity Real Estate Investors - Overcoming the Challenge of Sustainability & ESG: Pro-invest Group’s ESG Journey
This case study was written by Claudia Zeisberger, Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and Academic Director of GPEl, and Alexandra von Stauffenberg, Associate Director of the Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEl), both at INSEAD. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation.
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Pro-invest: How to Launch a Private Equity Real Estate Fund
This case study was written by Anne-Marie Carrick, Research Associate, Bowen White, Associate Director Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI), Claudia Zeisberger, Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences and Entrepreneurship & Family Business, all at INSEAD It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation.
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Bond Portfolio Optimisation and Mixed Integer Programming
While portfolio optimisation is commonplace in equities, it is more complex in the fixed-income space, partly because of trading lot sizes. Implementing the portfolio composition by converting weights into holdings is easy for equities due to small lot sizes.
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Rate cuts: are they justified by employment data?
The resilience of the labour market, evidenced by low unemployment and solid job growth, is seen as a key driver of the US economy’s strength. But in 2023, the trend of robust job creation shown in the previous two years began to deteriorate as the pace of newly created roles slowed down.
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An Alternative Outlook Note for the Season
Headlines remain dominated by highly negative news flow, a tough geopolitical landscape and the prospect of a divisive US election campaign. With a nod to the season, rather than writing a traditional pre-year-end outlook, our final note to clients this year is a short commentary on what might be a more positive prognosis for the future. We will follow with a note early in the New Year featuring key themes for 2024.
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Reflections on COP28: Opportunities amid Challenges
Investors are warming to opportunities stemming from climate change, and other takeaways from COP28.
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Tackling embodied carbon emissions
The built environment is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, which has put the sector under pressure from regulators, investors and occupiers to improve its performance. To accelerate the transition, asset owners, amongst other strategies, are going to need to embrace retrofitting and adopting new technologies.
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ECB on hold supportive for Euro credit markets and govies
Key takeaways from the European Central Bank’s meeting
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Fed and ECB: towards rate cuts in 2024
”Markets expect Central Banks to cut rates in early 2024. This is too optimistic, but falling inflation is good news for investors.”
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - December 2023
The impact of rate increases on businesses is expected to intensify in 2024. Businesses haven’t been impacted much by higher rates so far because they have used the cash they collected during Covid and refinance needs have been limited.
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Global FinTech: trends to watch in 2024
Beating the broader market was challenging for many active strategies in 2023, including our Global FinTech theme. However, Global FinTech has had the highest absolute return among its relevant peer group since our inception in 2020. We attribute the longer-term outperformance to our strict adherence to seeking quality growth at a reasonable price. Thematic purity is also hugely important to us, meaning we do not invest in the ‘Magnificent 7’.
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Macro Outlook 2024: The intangible cycle
Our Annual Outlook provides our key views and investment implications for the coming year
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Key Investments themes 2024: views from around the Generali Investments ecosystem
The global economy showed remarkable resilience in 2023, avoiding the sharp recession that was widely expected at the start of the year.
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Investors Cannot Ignore the Debt-Sustainability Question
Despite a pullback in bond yields, clients at our Solving for 2024 event were still uncertain about how to invest in a world of runaway government debt.