Latest Manager Research – Page 434
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White papersWill Geopolitics Fuel Global Volatility?
Economic trends clearly point toward higher inflation and interest rates ahead, which will likely make capital markets more volatile.
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White papersCan Investors Make Money in a US–China Trade War?
President Trump’s plans for tariffs on about $60 billion of Chinese imports have rattled equity markets.
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White papersSetting objectives for your asset allocation
The objective of this paper is to describe how an investor can define a target return, split between that of Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and excess return derived from active portfolio management.
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White papersEurozone Real Estate Outlook: 1H18
Economic growth was strong during 2H17 and for the year as a whole. The year ended well with robust growth of 0.6% in 4Q17. GDP growth reached an exceptional decade high of 2.5% in 2017 and according to survey data, it seems the eurozone economy got off to a good start this year.
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White papersEuropean Relative Value Index
As yields on European commercial real estate have tightened to record lows over the last two years, investors are fully justified to question whether direct real estate offers sufficiently attractive returns.
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White papersThe case for Europe: UK investors should look to expand their property exposure onto the Continent to increase their diversification
We at DTZ Investors are forecasting total returns from UK real estate to moderate in the near term and such a market outlook is encouraging an increasing number of traditionally domestic-focused property investors to consider opportunities overseas, with a resurgent Europe closest to home.
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White papersInfrastructure white paper series: Part 2
This series explores some of the key portfolio considerations of investing into infrastructure. Our first paper focused on the growing area of infrastructure debt. This paper, the second in our series, takes a closer look at how infrastructure returns might perform under various economic scenarios, and in particular in a rising interest rate environment. We use public and private infrastructure indices from 2004-2017 to help inform the analysis.
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White papersTen key questions on recent US protectionist measures
On March 22, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on around $50bln of Chinese imports (leaving Europe off for now) and China unveiled tariffs on $3bln of US imports. This adds to the measures announced on March 8, when US President Trump signed an order that imposes tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum (10%), effective on March 23.
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White papersScience and Art: A Framework to Unlock Multi-Asset Opportunities
Strategic allocation poses big challenges today—and multi-asset portfolios can help.
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White papersChairman Powell’s Fed: A slightly hawkish tilt
The March FOMC meeting was the first under the new Fed Chairman Powell and the first meeting including projections by the new members of the Fed. What are your views on the outcome of this meeting?
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White papersEconomic Insights: February 2018
What happens after growth peaks? A bit of deceleration. When things are so good they can’t get any better, they usually don’t. Still, the robust momentum should carry well into 2019.
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White papersIlliquidity and investment decisions: a survey
Investing in illiquid assets has become increasingly popular among individual and institutional investors. Illiquid assets provide higher returns and interesting diversification alternatives for asset managers.
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White papersUK Real Estate Outlook: Edition 1H18
The all property total return for UK commercial real estate of 10.3% in 2017 exceeded even the most bullish forecast expectations from the start of the year, and by some margin.
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White papersHow to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through savings and investments
With increasing interest from clients to know how asset managers can help them contribute to the UN SDGs, we take a closer look at some of the strategies that can be deployed to achieve this.
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White papersShareholder Activism: Why Should Investors Care?
Institutional investors have large and diversified portfolios with substantial company ownership and strong incentives to monitor and influence the firm’s business. Active ownership is becoming a key component of their investment process.
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White papersOpportunity amidst converging returns and shrinking risk premia
In the early months of 2018, economic fundamentals are supportive of another solid year of real estate performance. But monetary conditions are tightening and our central preoccupation persists: how will this affect the risk premium for real estate?
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White papersEurope Real Estate Market Outlook
Economic growth in the Eurozone consistently beat expectations throughout 2017. Following growth of 0.6% in Q3 and 0.7% in Q4, Eurozone GDP reached 2.5% for 2017, well above the ECB’s forecast of 1.7% at the start of the year. This marks the fastest pace of growth since 2007.
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White papersGrand Paris project: beyond the CBD office investment opportunities
Paris is the largest economy amongst the EU28 NUTS 2 level regions and the economic impact of the €26 billion Grand Paris project is expected to generate $29 billion of net new money to the local economic supply chain. This compares favourably to other worldwide infrastructure development projects.
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White papersColin Moore: Absence (of market volatility) made the heart grow fonder
Investors loved the markets while volatility was absent, but now it is back it should be a salutary reminder that it is part and parcel of investing.
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White papersDaisuke Nomoto: Japan - more tailwinds than headwinds for 2018
With GDP on a sustained growth track, supported by structural reforms and the Bank of Japan’s accommodative monetary policy, we maintain a positive outlook for the region.
