Latest White Papers – Page 346
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White papersIn Credit: A journey beginning with a single step?
The long journey to policy normalisation in Europe began last week with a barely perceptible step.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy: March 2018
The volatility spike in February is, in our view, a clear wake-up call for investors, and the market correction has partly removed the complacency that characterised financial markets in the last few months.
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White papersECB: Still dovish, but fixed income investors should be ready for a new phase
What are your views on ECB policy going forward?
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White papersReaction: Italian election
The Italian election result looks messy, but we do not believe that the chances of Italy leaving the eurozone have gone up materially.
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White papersAsset Allocation Update: New year, evolving views, same growth aims
As we move into 2018 we have spent some time evaluating the work we performed last year, as well as revisiting our current asset allocation positioning.
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White papersResponsible Investment Quarterly: Q4 2017
On the heels of two good years in the bond market, the best days for fixed income are likely behind us.
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White papersIn Credit: Sentiment and reality
Core government bond markets continued to improve for a second week with yields lower, especially in Europe and the UK. Italian government bond spreads, however, were wider on election uncertainty.
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White papersComplex Italian election outcome should not threaten the positive European story
The electoral outcome (the very positive result of Five Star Movement, now the largest party, and of the Lega Nord in the center right coalition) was not priced by the market.
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White papersPotential New Emerging Markets On The Block: Argentina, Saudi Arabia And Romania
As an active manager focused on the emerging markets (EM), Mirae Asset not only looks at the current EM universe, but also at leading economies within the frontier index with forthcoming prospects for inclusion into the EM benchmarks.
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White papers25 years’ experience provides platform for outperformance in Emerging Market Debt sector
Investors were given a wake-up call in February on the challenges posed by normalising monetary policy when strong economic data in the US sparked fears that interest rates would rise faster than expected, causing the global equity correction.
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White papersValue Investing - A Contrarian Bet Within European equities
When investors structure and diversify their equity portfolios, a key reference is the value/growth style framework that has dominated the fund industry for decades. Once target allocations are set, investors then select the funds offering the most appropriate risk and reward characteristics. When investors evaluate individual funds, it is only natural that one consideration is historical performance against a benchmark or a peer group, where funds are compared to others with a similar style.
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White papersModern Slavery, Exploitation and the Issues with Low Cost Sourcing
What is Modern Slavery?
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White papersValue Investing – A Contrarian Bet Within European Equities
When investors structure and diversify their equity portfolios, a key reference is the value/growth style framework that has dominated the fund industry for decades. Once target allocations are set, investors then select the funds offering the most appropriate risk and reward characteristics.
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White papersThe Inflation Tide Is Ready to Turn
Inflation has been stubbornly low, leading many to question traditional gauges like the Phillips Curve.
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White papersEmerging-Market Debt: Our Outlook for 2018—and Beyond
Emerging-market debt has the potential to boost income and returns in 2018.
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White papersHolding Active Management to a Higher Standard
Data points cannot come close to telling the full story of William Blair’s approach to active management; our story is one defined by our constant evolution.
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White papersWhat the recent market move means for European credit
Not a cycle reversal. We qualify the recent price actions as corrections, not as a cycle reversal. This position is mainly supported by past performance: profit taking is appealing when volatility increases.
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White papersThe improvement of peripheral bonds’ fundamentals has accelerated
Two events pushed down Eurozone sovereign spreads in 2017: the French presidential election in April & May, which dissipated investors’ fears about Eurosceptic movements, and the announcement on 26 October of a smaller-than-expected reduction in ECB’s QE for 2018 (monthly purchases lowered from € 60 bn to €30bn).
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White papersNAFTA renegotiations risk and main implications for investors
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trilateral pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that has been in force since 1994. Negotiations to revamp and modernize it, requested by the U.S., started in August 2017 and are now encountering some issues.
