Latest Manager Research – Page 53
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White papersMateriality Matters: The ESG Factors That Count
The materiality of ESG factors differs across sectors and markets. Investors need to understand how.
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White papersExploring Asset-Based Finance: Funding the Real Economy
A growing market segment offers diverse opportunities for private lenders and investors.
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White papersRewriting the rules: The rise of private real estate in an evolving market environment
In today’s evolving market landscape, private real estate is emerging as a preferred asset for institutional investors. Despite recent challenges in capital markets, real estate continues to offer notable benefits such as stable returns, inflation hedging capabilities, and diversification advantages. As debt markets thaw and transaction volumes rebound, the allocation to real estate is expected to increase, presenting opportunities for investors to establish a solid basis and add diversification to their portfolios.
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White papersFinding the Sweet Spot in the Private Equity Capital Stack
“Capital solutions” has become a catch-all moniker within private markets, leaving many asset allocators to scratch their heads as to what these funds actually do and the risks they take.
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White papersFrom Liberation Day to Independence Day
Business confidence needs to improve to restart U.S. investment and growth—could the forthcoming tax bill provide the impetus?
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White papersEmerging Markets: Finding Opportunities amid the Global Economic Reset
US policy changes look daunting—but emerging markets still have upside.
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White papersNew catalysts spur global stocks
For the first time in many years, the picture is brightening for non-US stocks. There are new catalysts accelerating change: fiscal stimulus in Germany, corporate reforms in Japan and South Korea, a weakening US dollar, signs of stabilisation in China, and an improving policy environment in Europe.
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White papersChina in the race to technological leadership
With its rapid advancements in critical technologies, today, China is a formidable competitor to the developed West for global technology leadership. Innovation can take many forms, including process innovation – in which China excels – leveraging its large and dynamic manufacturing base. However, this is not enough.
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White papersFour factors that could drive Chinese equity markets
Despite geopolitical, trade, and economic uncertainties, China’s stock market has emerged as one of the top returners globally in recent times. The MSCI China Index produced 10% in the first four months of 2025 and 26.5% over the past year, outstripping the MSCI USA, MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI ACWI indices.
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White papersUS-China truce reduces tariffs for now
“The US-China trade announcement is welcome news, but policy uncertainty remains. As we wait for developments after the 90-day pause, we see opportunities in the broader global equities space.”
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White papersWhy Does Volatility Often Lead to Strong Emerging Equity Returns?
Moments of Extreme Fear Have Prompted Emerging-Market Equity Outperformance.
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White papersWhat would it take to see a sustained weakness in the dollar?
About a month after “Liberation Day,” the US dollar has shown signs of stabilisation, though it continues to soften against most developed and emerging markets currencies.
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White papersSAFI: A Modern Approach to Fixed Income Investing
How does systematic active fixed income (SAFI) investing actually work? In this article, we go through the SAFI investment process step by step, explain the generation of signals, and discuss the various potential benefits of SAFI for investors.
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White papersSurging office lending
Office lending jumped 42% in early 2025, signaling renewed confidence. Banks and insurers led the rebound despite lingering sector challenges.
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White papersThe U.S. Labor Market: Caution or Confidence?
This month we investigate the details of the labour market for signs of weakness. On balance, the labor market remains quite stable. There are, however, a few points of concern.Youth unemployment is rising rapidly, and the length of time people are unemployed has risen. Restrictive immigration policies may also be contributing to tightening the supply of labor.
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White papersVictory in the face of volatility
Roundtable with Thomas Roche-Toussaint and other industry experts on secondaries with Private Equity International
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White papersESG Thema #20 - Blue Economy: Ready, Set, Sail!
It is hard to imagine that something covering 71% of the earth’s surface is often on the back burner of ESG materiality and management. However, this is the case when it comes to ocean protection.
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White papersISA Briefing: The trade war, relatively speaking: Tariffs and real estate fair value
Two 90-day pauses, one on retaliatory tariffs with China and the other on the so-called “liberation day” tariffs, have not liberated markets from uncertainty. However, these course corrections have at least shown that the US administration has limits to its willingness to tolerate extreme market movements, particularly increases in Treasury yields, or severe outcomes for consumers such as product shortages. They have also contributed to a more benign recent market environment than at the beginning of April.
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White papersCredit in focus: Navigating liquid opportunities
Exploring yield, quality and diversification in non-investment grade credit
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White papersPrivate Equity: Capitalizing in the Current Climate
Despite recent headwinds, we believe private equity can help shield investors from negative tariff impacts while delivering long-term portfolio diversification.
