Latest Manager Research – Page 448
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Continental European real estate market commentary: March 2017
The vote to leave the EU has generated different responses from UK business and consumers. Despite the Bank of England’s cut in interest rates and other measures, business investment fell in 2016 and companies have become more cautious about recruitment.
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White papersIn Credit: Loose lips sink ships
Core government bond markets performed very poorly last week with yields rising meaningfully in most areas.
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Factor investing for government bonds beyond duration, currency and credit risk timing
The traditional investment approaches employed to generate active returns in the government bonds market focus essentially on actively timing duration, credit risk or currency exposure.
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Factor investing is not an asset class, it’s a solution-oriented philosophy
The naïve approach to single factor investing is to simply select the stocks that have the desired characteristic and to find a weighting scheme that doesn’t raise too many problems in terms of liquidity and diversification, i.e. usually linked to some extent to the original market capitalisation.
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White papersThe European residential opportunity
Why It Is Now The Right Time To Execute A European Residential Strategy
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Stockpicking without subjectivity
After the great financial crisis of 2008, the US economy evolved through both remedial and recovery phases, and is now advancing into a new era.
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Why reflation is about much more than Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the US presidential election last year prompted much market excitement about the birth of the ‘reflation trade,’ based on the former reality TV star’s plans to cut taxes and spend lavishly on America’s crumbling infrastructure.
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The Four Principles of Style-Premia Selection
Factor investing, whereby the fundamental and technical drivers of securities are used to create diversifying strategies, has in recent years become democratised: it is now accessible to investors beyond those willing and able to pay hedge funds ‘two and twenty.’
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Impact Investing Towards a Better World
When it comes to investment criteria, most fund managers don’t typically look at alleviating hunger, expanding access to health care or bridging the digital divide.
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Factoring in the best approach
There continues to be a lot written and said about factor investing and, like any popular idea, there can be confusing and conflicting messages.
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Harvesting Value with Sector Rotation
Through time sector performance varies due to natural market conditions that ebb and flow. Sector performances are often uncorrelated, meaning an investment strategy that chooses strong performing sectors in the right market conditions becomes attractive.
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Creating and managing portfolios in the secured finance market
Since the financial crisis eight years ago, banks have been forced to reduce the scale of their lending as a result of increased regulation.
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Navigating the opportunities and challenges facing European Corporate Bonds
Financial markets are pricing in the predictable positive global reflation trade effects.
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Generating social alpha without sacrificing investment returns
In recent years, European investor engagement with Responsible Investment (RI) has gathered momentum and impact investment has soared in popularity as European investors come to consider the effects of their invested capital more deeply.
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Swimming Against The Tide – The Case For Active Management In US Equities
The average active manager will under- perform the market. Unfortunately, this statement is mathematically inevitable.
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Investor’s opportunity: navigating across the credit continuum
There are two main reasons that have led institutional investors to start navigating across the credit continuum: diversification and potential yield enhancement.
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White papersThe long unwinding road of quantitative easing
The reasons for using QE and its effectiveness have been argued at length and this article aims not to discuss whether or not QE has worked, but to look at the likely next steps of central banks and how these could impact markets.
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White papersWhat will end the search for yield?
The search for yield appears unstoppable. Global investors’ voracious appetite for income has been a near-constant theme since the end of the financial crisis, propelling bond yields to record lows.
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White papersGo for consistency of returns, not spectacular returns
Colin Moore (Global Chief Investment Officer) discusses where he sees investment opportunities and risks in today’s markets, and why he thinks investors value a consistent approach to investing now more than ever.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy: June 2017
Can global trade, which has declined sharply over the past decade, contribute to accelerating growth with consumption, investment and fiscal and tax policies?
