Latest Manager Research – Page 467
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PanAgora - Diversification beta strategies
Among equity investors the term “Alternative Beta” has come to refer to an alternative investment approach to passive capitalisation weighted (CW) portfolios.
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Listed real estate: an unexpected buttress against rising rates
After a strong year for listed real estate securities, many investors are wondering whether the sector can continue to grow in an economic environment which may see rising interest rates.
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Big City, Bright Lights, Better Returns?
Real estate investors have a natural affinity for big cities in Europe and North America. Most big cities are forecast to see relatively strong economic and population growth over the next decade and they also have deep and relatively liquid investment markets.
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Office space trends in Europe: The disappearance of the adjustment cycle
The cyclical growth pattern of office stock across European markets in the last decades has been subject to several structural breaks and changes, which has resulted in a less flexible supply side.
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Asia-Pacific property investing – challenges and opportunities
Despite negative headlines about the health of several Asia-Pacific economies (most notably China) and the yields on core properties falling below historical averages in most major markets, we still see attractive investment opportunities in the region, albeit through a more targeted approach.
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Flexible, dynamic solutions for portfolio risk management
Overlay Management is basically a quantitative, disciplined and dynamic solution to risk management with one, simple goal: giving stability to client portfolios.
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Optimising your credit strategy in a low-yield world
Investment grade credit markets provided investors with strong performance in 2014, but with credit markets testing their highs, now is an opportune time for investors to reconsider how credit portfolios might be affected by diverging US and eurozone monetary policy.
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The case for pension funds to consider buy and maintain
Why should pension funds consider a buy and maintain strategy and how are such strategies being used by pension funds?
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Opportunities on financial debt amid today’s quest for yield and regulatory shifts
Why invest in subordinated financial debt today? We believe there are 3 main reasons that warrant exposure to this bond segment.
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Principal Global Investors - Unlocking the future of capital markets
Like a sort of financial physics, the world exerts a force on capital markets at least equal to the force that capital markets exert on the world. This paper will examine four of these current forces that will have a great influence on the future of capital markets.
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White papershospitalityinside Investment BAROMETER Spring 2015 - supported by Union Investment
The overall index has decreased slightly with 3,811 points (-1.73 percent) compared to last fall and is thus returning to the level of spring 2014. However, the good mood in the hotel industry hides the scepticism about its own business expectations and new hotel projects.
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The greatest investment theme of our lives?
How global listed infrastructure can provide the potential for stable, reliable and growing cashflows: In this paper we discuss the attributes of the asset class, focussing mainly on the cash generated by the underlying assets.
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Perspectives: The impact of QE on European property markets
The European Central Bank plans to inject €1.1 trillion into the eurozone economy through its new quantitative easing programme from March 2015 to September 2016. In this paper, we look at what QE is likely to mean for the region’s real estate market.
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Webcast: The Global Private Finance Opportunity
As investors continue to hunt for yield in this historically low interest rate environment, global private credit markets offer a potential solution for achieving both attractive returns and diversification.
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Insights: Q1 2015
In Asia, active management is becoming an increasingly important driver of outperformance, against a backdrop of moderately positive rental growth and relatively low yields. Attractively priced prime assets aren’t as easy to find as they were a year or two ago.
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White papersOutlook 1H15: Eurozone commercial real estate market - Navigating political uncertainties – in an improving economic environment
The economic headlines from the second half of 2014 could easily give the impression that the eurozone’s economy was heading towards another crisis. There were concerns that the economic recovery had stagnated, with 2Q14 data showing that France and Germany, the eurozone’s two largest economies, had recorded negative growth and in so doing dragged the eurozone’s overall growth down to 0.1%.
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White papersOutlook 1H15: UK commercial real estate market - Will 2015 be a year of two halves?
Economic data from the end of 2014 continued the pattern of softer growth recorded since the summer, with 4Q14 GDP growth of 0.5% the slowest for a year. Nonetheless, this left growth for 2014 as a whole at a robust 2.6% and the fastest of the G7 nations, and given some reasonably strong high frequency data in 4Q, it is likely the final figures may be revised up in the future.
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Research Affiliates - Financial engineers and the factor bubble
Is there a factor bubble? Tabulating papers in the top finance journals, nearly 250 factors appear to provide excess returns.
