Latest Manager Research – Page 461
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White papersIs your default fund fit for purpose? Are we setting retirees up for failure by default? (Paper I)
In the first of three papers, entitled: Is your default fund fit for purpose?: Are we setting retirees up for failure by default?, Chris Wagstaff considers the importance of fit-for-purpose default funds and good default fund design.
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Global Economic Overview: Spring 2016
The world economy stumbled in 2015, amid weak aggregate demand, falling commodity prices and increasing economic volatility in major countries. The world GDP grew by 3.1% vs. 3.4% in 2014.
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UK Economy Overview
The UK finished 2015 ahead of many developed economies with the economy growing by 2.2%pa. Going forward Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts close to the long-term average economic growth of 2.0% in 2016 and 2.2% in 2017.
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European Real Estate Summary: Edition 2 2016
Since the beginning of 2016 global capital and financial markets have been on a roller coaster. On the back of slowing economic growth in Emerging Markets (EM) many European sentiment surveys moved southward, suggesting a slowdown in European economic activity as well.
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Using direct real estate investment for both growth and income
The new initiative for Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) to pool their assets and create ‘collective portfolios’ in different asset classes is likely to see the creation of six collective investment vehicles (CIVs).
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Global Real Estate Summary: Edition 1 2016
The global economy is relatively healthy, despite the fact that in most major economies domestic demand is expanding at a rate below its 10-year (or longer) average.
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Private Real Estate Debt Strategies: Q4 2015
Commercial and multifamily mortgage investments form an integral part of the fixed income asset allocation strategy of many institutional investors. They offer an appealing mix of strong relative value, competitive credit loss experience, and diversification benefits within a larger fixed income portfolio.
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White papersThe High-Tech Lever: Examining Technology’s Influence on the Economy
The physical limitations of our strength, our endurance, and our finite life span have actually been a catalyst to the success of our species. Human beings have used their creativity and ingenuity to continually transcend those confines.
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Style Investing in Fixed Income Markets
A disciplined, systematic approach to over/underweight securities based on well-known factors, or styles, such as value, momentum, carry and defensive, can offer alternative sources of outperformance not only within equities, where these ideas have long been studied and applied, but also within fixed income markets.
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Generating returns and managing volatility: the absolute return approach to convertible bonds (May 2016)
The past months have been characterised by an unprecedented low rate environment.
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White papersInvestment Case for UK PRS
The UK private rented sector (PRS) has doubled in size in the past decade and is now increasingly attracting the attention of pension funds, insurers and other institutions.
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Is the New GICS Sector Worth $100 Billion?
In a fitting time almost 25 years after the Kimco IPO kicked off the start of the modern REIT era, the Real Estate sector has matured enough to garner a home of its own.
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White papersBasis Trade at Index Close (BTIC) Trading at Index Option Expirations
Most index options traders use index futures for hedging purposes.
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Automation and Real Estate – the rise of the machines
This paper considers the impact of computing and robotics advances on the workforce and how this will influence real estate markets.
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Real estate impact of the migrant crisis
Europe is currently experiencing migration on an unprecedented scale. This paper looks at consequences for German real estate.
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Tomorrow's office markets
Not all UK cities are equally well equipped to cope with 21st century economic conditions, in particular the ongoing shift to a knowledge-based service economy facilitated by technological developments.
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European Real Estate Market: Brexit Update (April 2016)
A vote to remain continues to be the more likely outcome and GRE research believes that the likelihood of this has increased marginally after Cameron achieved his reforms in Brussels.
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Now vs. the GFC
Comparisons between the turmoil in January and February versus the GFC in 2009 yield a number of observations.
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Perspective: Global Volatility, The Real Economy, and Real Estate
Bouts of financial market volatility likely to return
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White papersPreferred Securities: an Oasis in the Fixed Income Desert?
Following the global financial crisis, the restructuring and recapitalization of financial firms have made banks and insurance companies an attractive sector for fixed income investors.
