Latest Manager Research – Page 5
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White papersThe great portfolio reset: How alternatives are changing the face of finance
As traditional 60/40 portfolios struggle in an era of persistent inflation and market volatility, institutional and private investors are turning to alternative assets as an additional source of returns and diversification. Jerry Pascucci and Johannes Roth examine the drivers and implications of this structural shift.
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White papersResponsible Investment Views 2026
“Responsible investment is moving from aspiration to execution. Expectations for stewardship, especially in Europe, continue to intensify, and there is a growing emphasis on directing capital toward climate solutions that deliver measurable, real world impact.”
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White papersThe Red Thread: Alternative alpha, Edition 2025/26
Our semi-annual insights into alternatives
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White papersMarkets in 2026: Full Speed Ahead—With Eyes Wide Open
When everything seems to be going right, that is precisely when vigilance is needed.
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White papersEmbracing Risk in a Shifting Macro Regime
The Asset Allocation Committee (AAC) continues to see opportunity in growth and risk assets over the medium term, even as elevated risks and increasingly divergent policy paths make the investment landscape more complex. We believe this environment rewards disciplined, selective risk-taking.
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White papersFinding the AI Megatrend Through Bonds
The AI capex boom is creating a compelling fixed income opportunity, as leading tech firms increasingly fund investments through sizeable AI‑linked bond issuance, offering investors an alternative way to gain AI exposure beyond equities.
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White papersHard assets, soft power: Infrastructure 2026 Outlook
In a fractured, multipolar world defined by strategic rivalries, infrastructure has become a critical lever for nations to project soft power – through energy security, technological leadership and supply chain dominance.
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White papersTransition leads to opportunity in global real estate
A more constructive interest rate environment, valuation resets, dwindling supply, and shifting demand from technology, demographics, and evolving consumer preferences are fundamentally reshaping real estate markets, argues Larissa Belova
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White papersECB to stay on hold in early 2026
Eurozone inflation slowed to 2.0% in December, according to a preliminary estimate, hitting the ECB’s 2% target for the first time since August. We expect inflation to stay below this target both this year and next year, while real GDP growth should slow overall in 2026 despite the recent positive momentum. Growth forecasts were upgraded, while inflation still signals a deceleration due to sluggish private consumption, slowing wage growth, and further euro appreciation (which tends to make exports cheaper).
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White papers2026 Real Estate Outlook: Navigating the real estate resurgence
After years of rising rates and valuation corrections, private real estate is poised for meaningful recovery. With values stabilizing and six consecutive quarters of positive total returns, strengthening fundamentals are creating compelling long-term opportunities. Discover our six investment themes for 2026 and where we see the most attractive opportunities across risk profiles and geographies.
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White papersSustainability Outlook: What’s on Our Radar for 2026
Surging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads have driven billions of investment dollars into data infrastructure, lifting valuations across utilities, semiconductors, and power generation assets. Rapid advances in AI and the continued electrification of industries are pushing energy demand well above historical trends, attracting capital flows into both traditional and next-generation supply solutions.
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White papersCleared for Takeoff: A New Flight Path for Real Estate - 2026 Global Investment Outlook
After years of ongoing turbulence punctuated by repricing, interest rate fluctuations, and recalibrations, the global commercial real estate sector appears to have found a stable altitude—and is now primed to begin its next ascent.
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White papersHow to thrive amid a confluence of generational shifts
If we look back at equities over recent history, markets have tended to move in decadal mega cycles, where one major ‘theme’ has dominated returns.
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White papersEmbracing infrastructure opportunities: Infrastructure allocations gain momentum as investor interest grows
Infrastructure’s youth underpins growth in allocations
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White papersIs the hedge fund juice still worth the squeeze?
How evolving fund structures, investor requirements and cross-asset innovation are reshaping the hedge fund value proposition
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White papersEmbracing infrastructure opportunities: Infrastructure allocations gain momentum as investor interest grows
The rise in infrastructure assets under management (AuM) has been driven more by internal growth in unrealized value in recent years, as opposed to the growth in dry powder. Challenging fundraising conditions throughout 2023 and 2024, against a backdrop of a resurgent deal market, have seen dry power stocks fall 12% over 2024. While fundraising has more recently picked up, returning to a record pace in 1H25, longer-term growth in fundraising inflows is fundamentally a function of investor allocations.
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White papersFlash commentary: Venezuela
Since August 2025, the US has deployed one of the largest forces in the Caribbean and US policy had been shifting from economic sanctions to political pressure, with Chevron’s oil license restored and military assets deployed near Venezuela as President Trump sought to manage competing priorities of energy, drug cartels, immigration, and friction with the Maduro regime.
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White papersExtended Fixed Income: Seeking Returns in Public and Private Debt
In an environment where rates are normalizing and credit spreads are tight, European insurers are seeing a mix of interesting opportunities in emerging markets debt, private credit and securitised products.
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White papersNeuberger Berman’s 2026 Capital Market Assumptions
After a volatile yet resilient year for markets, we look to 2026 with cautious optimism that the worst of the global trade and policy uncertainty has passed, leaving a more supportive, if still dynamic, backdrop for economic growth and risk assets.
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White papersEuropean Fixed-Income Outlook 2026: Fair Winds as Currents Shift
The backdrop for Europe’s bonds remains favorable—even as technological change creates new challenges.
