All Multi-Asset articles – Page 10
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Disruptions Redefine Risk and Opportunity in 2022
Global investment outlook: The ramifications of the pandemic will likely continue to reverberate in 2022, but what does that mean for investors? Our investment teams explore key themes in equity, fixed income and real estate.
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Key Investment Themes for 2022 - Views from around Generali Investments
2021 saw investors contend with pivotal changes in the macro environment, big developments in ESG policy, and the shifting uncertainties of the pandemic.
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Macro Views: The Fed remains dovish, focusing on jobs rather than inflation
Change with continuity. This may have been the message sent by the Fed to the financial markets last week. On the surface, nothing changes with the reappointment of J. Powell as Fed Chairman.
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Taming the inflation Beast in 2022
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, inflation reemerged from the depths of Covid in 2020, accelerating throughout 2021 to heights not seen for decades in the Western world.
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Solving for 2022: Erik Knutzen on Macro
As 2021 concludes, the leaders of our investment platforms got together to debate and identify the key themes that they think will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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Macro Perspectives
In this short video, Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer of our Multi-Asset Class Platform discusses some of the macroeconomic themes we’ve identified and outlines the impact of these on our asset class views.
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Asset Allocation Insights: From fixed weights to all-weather
In this research paper, our experts examine the use of a popular investment style to adapt a fixed weight portfolio to be less cyclical in nature.
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CIO views outlook: top 3 investment picks in 2022
Where will opportunity knock in 2022? Our CIOs consider what lies in store, outlining three key areas of promise for investors in the new year.
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Solving for 2022
The heads of our investment platforms identified the key themes they anticipate will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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Macro Views: Central Bank Surprise is positive for the short term only
Central banks have returned to centre stage over the past few weeks as inflation expectations have continued to rise sharply and investors have started pricing in swifter adjustments to monetary policies.
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Macro Views: Q3 Earnings Provide Cause For Optimism Despite Failing To Impress Investors
The Q3 earnings season is coming to a close and has thus far proceeded in much the same way as recent quarters: muted expectations from analysts have been surpassed by firms’ results.
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Combining active and passive investing in Multi Asset: an institutional investor framework
Numerous factors have been driving the development of passively managed vehicles and their increasing weight in institutional investors’ portfolios. In particular, a recent PwC study showed that the weight of passive investments in global pension funds’ portfolios grew from 19% in 2017 to 25% in 20201.
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Macro views: Navigating Emerging market FX on these uneven grounds
Emerging Market Foreign Exchange (EMFX) markets can provide attractive opportunities but also higher risk. Indeed, investors often face heightened political risk, higher volatility and lower liquidity than traditional developed world FX markets.
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Macro Views: Stagflation risk is rising but remains a tail scenario
After a strong global economic recovery in the first half of the year, the events of Q3 – weakening growth and continuing inflation – have become concerning and raise the potential risk of stagflation.
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MiViews Q4
After a strong global economic recovery in the first half of the year, the events of the third quarter – weakening growth and continuing inflation – have become concerning and raise the potential risk of stagflation.
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Clearing the Hurdles
On a 12-month horizon, this looks to us like an attractive environment for risky assets, but the inflexion point in the current cycle is proving particularly volatile: adopting a more defensive view in the short term may help investors clear the immediate hurdles.
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Should Today’s “Buy the Dip” Equity Trend Guide a Multi-Asset Strategy?
Under normal circumstances, most investors are momentum chasers and liquidity takers. They buy when markets do well and sell on the way down. But the last 18 months have been far from normal for just about everything, especially investors’ equity buying and selling habits. The buy-low/sell-high paradigm has been uniquely tested in 2021, and investors are jumping in during selloffs almost as enthusiastically as during rebounds.
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Rubles, Reals, and Institutional Quality
We believe an increased long exposure to the Brazilian real and Russian ruble is justified by the “where” and “why” stages of our investment process, specifically relating to ESG influences (in this case, primarily social and governance factors).
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Macro Views: The case for a broad and strong expansion remains
June capped off a remarkable first half of the year for financial markets as investors continued deploying capital following the post-coronavirus economic recovery.
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Macro Views: Rationality in the current market exuberance
The first half of the year was characterised by record-breaking price action in many asset classes. Many stock indices reached new highs, credit spreads new lows, commodity prices posted their best returns in years and economic momentum gained tremendous traction.