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White papersOpportunities in...European Corporate Bonds
Why European investment grade corporate bonds? At a time when attention is increasingly focused on a gradual reduction in US and European monetary stimulus, the European investment grade corporate bond market presents investors with an increasingly broad investment opportunity set focused on the rapidly evolving European market.
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White papersAsset Allocation Update: What will upset the Goldilocks environment?
How to identify the future political and monetary policy events that will dominate market discussions is critical. It is our job to filter out noise and determine what signposts, events or issues are truly meaningful in terms of their potential impact on markets. This feels particularly pertinent at present, when the broad global macroeconomic environment can be characterised as ‘Goldilocks like’, with decent global growth and only gentle rises in inflation
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White papersA Guide to Alternative Risk Premia
For years, academics and investors have been researching sources of return to understand what drives outperformance. Increasingly, this research has been focused on alternative risk premia strategies, a form of factor-based investing which is now entering the mainstream.
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White papersAn unconstrained approach to liquid risk premia research and construction
Liquid Risk Premia, sometimes called Alternative Betas, are return opportunities associated with second-order capital market risks that are in themselves not dependent upon assuming some form of market direction.
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White papersContinental Europe Real Estate Market Outlook: September 2017
The populism movement appeared to be gaining momentum across the developed world earlier this year, but the Dutch and French election outcomes suggest that the Eurozone has taken a different turn. Even in Italy, where a lagging economic performance and general election next year offer the potential for an upheaval, sentiment is slowly improving.
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White papersEuropean Office Market
The recovery in Europe is showing little sign of running out of steam. Economic sentiment is on an upwards trend, while the provision of financial stimulus continues, balancing out the remaining uncertainty around European elections.
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White papersMagnify: The opportunity in European logistics
Investor interest in the European logistics sector continues to rise, in part due to the relatively attractive yields on offer compared to other sectors.
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White papers5G: The Foundation for a Hyper-Connected World
Principal is sparking an ongoing conversation on transformational technologies and their influence on our world.
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White papersStrategic Relative Value: Q4 2017
A quarterly look at how macro events are driving relative value around the globe.
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White papersA case for unconstrained emerging market debt
Emerging market debt represents a key source of income and risk diversification in a low-yield environment. Investment managers with the ability and expertise to navigate the diverse universe of EMD assets can offer their clients opportunities for attractive growth and capital gains.
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White papersFactor Investing: Diversifying risks to enhance long-term performance
For a long time, traditional equity investing has aimed at generating returns rather than managing risk. But in recent years institutional investors have started to change their attitude: mitigating risk is now more important than maximising returns.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views: October 2017
Ongoing dovishness from Central Banks and higher geopolitical risks are the divergent forces driving financial markets at this point.
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White papersUnderstanding the Momentum Risk Premium
Momentum risk premium is one of the most important alternative risk premia. Since it is considered a market anomaly, it is not always well understood
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White papersThe food challenge: How can one achieve greater transparency?
What do we really eat? What information do labels give us? Do they tell us everything? Are companies really being transparent?
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White papersIn Credit: Abenomics 2.0
It was a mixed week for core government bonds with yields rising in Europe and the US, but falling in the UK and largely unchanged in Japan where Shinzo Abe won a large majority in last weekend’s general election. This victory leaves the road clear for more ultra-easy monetary policy in an economy that is growing but has so far failed to produce much in the way of inflation (Nationwide core CPI = 0.0% y/y).
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White papersWill ECB Tapering Trigger Market Tantrum?
The European Central Bank is widely expected to announce a winding down of its quantitative easing program on October 26. Though investors are nervous, the ECB is doing a good job preparing markets for the change.
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White papersIn Credit: The calm after the storms?
Core bond yields were flat in Japan, a touch wider in the UK and lower in the US and Europe last week. The International Monetary Fund raised its global GDP forecast marginally to 3.6% for 2017 ( 0.1%) and 3.7% for 2018, driven largely by an improved outlook in the US, Europe, Japan and China.
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White papersSeeking sustainable income in a low rate environment
“Today income investors should explore opportunities across a broader range of asset classes in an effort to avoid the low yield trap”
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White papersThe German yield curve is steeper than its US counterpart and this will amplify
Since April, the German yield curve is steeper than its US counterpart (considering the spread between the 10y. and the 2y. yields). This has not been so often the case since the creation of the Eurozone.
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White papersOpportunities ahead in Asia EMs, despite increasing geopolitical tensions
EM Asian economies outlook has been improving and it’s expected to mildly improve further. We closely monitor geopolitical risk in the region.
