All Multi-Asset articles
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - August 2026
July saw tensions flare once again in the Middle East. Markets questioned the feasibility of returning to a ceasefire, pushing Brent oil prices back towards $100. Previously, prices had fallen to pre-war levels due to effective rerouting efforts and a reassessment of supply risks.
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White papersMulti-Asset Investments Views: You spin me round
The re-escalation of Middle East hostilities has effectively buried the Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran.
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VideoWebinar Replay: Asset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026
With real rates driving markets and AI’s investment reach expanding into power, industrials, and real assets, where are the best opportunities across equities, fixed income, and alternatives?
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White papersStaying agile: Managing change and shocks is now business as usual for insurers
We live in a complex, uncertain and fast-changing world, where organisations need to adapt to thrive – and this is especially true for insurance companies, whatever their market or business line. Insurers manage balance sheets and asset portfolios in complex, and multidimensional, local and global frameworks. They must build and manage a portfolio which matches their liabilities while protecting and stabilising their economic and regulatory capital position.
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White papersReimagining the opportunity: How Total Portfolio Approach could reshape multi asset investing
With traditional rules of thumb of investing becoming less reliable in an increasingly complex global landscape, how are investors tackling the new normal? Fabiana Fedeli, CIO Equities, Multi Asset and Sustainability, explores how large asset owners are increasingly moving towards a Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) and allocating more flexibly and dynamically across asset classes to achieve their investment objectives.
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White papersFor DC Savers, Better Returns May Translate into Longer-Lasting Income
For defined contribution (DC) plan participants, the ability to improve investment returns may make a sizable difference over time—a difference that may translate into more effective wealth building and more years of income in retirement.
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White papersPortfolio construction in an inflationary era
We don’t expect a 2022-style inflation shock, but we recognise that 2026 is no longer a normal inflation environment. In this regime, bonds may be less reliable as an equity hedge and portfolio construction needs broader inflation protection: selective risk assets, carry over duration, real and private assets, commodities and gold.
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White papersRetirement takes centre stage: designing portfolios for long-term outcomes
At this year’s Amundi World Investment Forum, retirement emerged as a major top-of-mind topic across the plenary sessions, breakouts, peer-to-peer discussions and the closing exchanges on the consequences of current trends for investors.
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White papersAsset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026: Staying Pro-Risk in a Broadening AI Cycle
An AI-driven capital spending cycle is gaining speed, spreading across the broader economy and creating a supportive environment for risk assets.
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White papersInnovating for Better DC Outcomes: The Evolution of Royal London Asset Management’s Equity Tilt Solutions
In 2019, Royal London Asset Management and our parent group, Royal London, identified the potential to develop the equity elements of its key propositions with the aim of further improving customer outcomes. The main beneficiaries of any development would be investors in the flagship governed range of risk‑rated multi‑asset portfolios, including the workplace default investment.
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White papers2026 Midyear Multi-Asset Outlook: From AI Promise to Delivery
At the beginning of 2026, we were anticipating a year when market leadership would pivot back to the U.S., given that global growth drivers remained narrowly focused on AI and largely U.S.-based. Taiwan and Korea supply much of the chips that drive AI, and several mega-caps from these two countries have almost single-handedly pulled emerging markets into the winners’ circle.
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White papersMulti-Asset Investments Views: Midnight oil
SpaceX’s initial public offering saw the company valued at about $1.8 trillion, which propelled it into the world’s top 10 firms by market capitalisation. It marked a pivotal moment for public equity markets and the artificial intelligence ecosystem.
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White papersMid-year Investment Outlook 2026
The global economy is at an inflection point. We see growth slowing unevenly and fiscal policy becoming a more visible constraint. Meanwhile, inflation risks are rising as geopolitical shocks increasingly affect energy prices, food and fertiliser costs, and shipping routes. Still, artificial intelligence (AI) remains a strong earnings driver across regions and, increasingly, across sectors.
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White papersInvestment Perspectives Mid-Year Outlook 2026: Rally vs reality
In the first half of 2026, a striking divergence has emerged: equity and bond markets appear to be dancing to very different beats.
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White papers2026 Midyear Investment Outlook
Capital Group’s 2026 Midyear Outlook report delves into many market-driving issues, including conflict, the AI rollout, inflation, high oil prices and the US midterms. It also identifies key equity and fixed income investment themes. Here we offer an overview of the opportunities as we see them. Be sure to download the full report for a deeper dive.
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White papersMeeting climate targets: A more complex journey
As climate transition pathways become more fragmented, institutional investors are shifting from broad ambition to practical implementation. With 2030 targets drawing closer, investors need more flexible frameworks, broader portfolio tools and stronger governance to balance climate objectives with return, liquidity and real world constraints to navigate a more complex environment.
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White papersDC Members Have Clear Preferences Regarding UK Investments
Based on our latest YouGov survey of over 2,000 UK defined contribution (DC) members, many savers are receptive to the idea of supporting UK investment, but support weakens when it’s framed as coming at the expense of potential returns.
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White papersWho Should Own AI? An Open Letter
AI’s economic gains raise urgent questions about ownership, inequality and corporate power. Proposals for public stakes, taxation or regulation reflect concern that AI could deepen wealth concentration, weaken labor and shift power from governments to mega-cap firms. For investors, equities remain attractive, but rising fragility and political backlash may increase market volatility.
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White papersThe intelligence dividend: what AI means for portfolios
The AI investment boom is reshaping capital markets at a historic pace, but its effects on growth, inflation, and employment are far more nuanced than the headlines suggest. Nuveen’s latest research cuts through the noise, examining what the data actually shows about AI’s productivity payoff, its surprisingly complex inflation footprint, and what it all means for portfolio positioning today. Explore the full paper to see where the opportunities and risks may lie in navigating this evolving landscape.
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White papersThe New Era of Income Investing
How to design income portfolios beyond traditional stocks and bonds.
