All Multi-Asset articles – Page 13
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White papersRisk budgeting and trade sizing: why they matter to multi-asset portfolio construction
In the current environment of heightened uncertainty, managing a multi-asset portfolio has rarely looked as complex as it does today, especially for those investors looking for an appropriate governance model on which to take investment decisions.The issue is not only to make accurate market forecasts and formulate appropriate investment views, but also to construct an efficient portfolio based on these views within a given risk budget.
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White papersIs There Opportunity in COVID-19 Valuation Dislocations?
Capital markets have rebounded from their COVID-19-induced lows, but impacted industries have lagged substantially. That pessimism may be overdone in some cases, creating opportunities for multi-asset investors to exploit dislocations.
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White papersInvestment decisions in volatile times
Volatile market conditions are an opportunity for investors to reassess and diversify. Timing an investment in the right asset class can bring significant gains, but may require using strategies that diversify risk, argue Wei Li, Senior Structurer, Multi-Asset, Quantitative and Solutions APAC.
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White papersTaking savings seriously
A penny saved may be a penny earned, but you still have to save it, and this is a task that’s getting harder and harder in today’s complex financial world. That’s where the Asset Allocation team of the Quantitative Research Group (QRG) at BNP Paribas Asset Management comes in. It seeks to give clients access to all possible financial tools with which they are most likely to secure and increase their savings over the long term.
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Asset Manager NewsTop 10 with… Interview with Markus Benzler on Multi-Managers Private Equity, 2020 update
UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets business is one of the largest asset managers in real assets worldwide, currently managing over USD 100bn globally. By combining the joint expertise of over 500 talented people working across Direct Real Estate and Direct Infrastructure as well as Multi-Manager Solutions in Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Equity, we believe we can offer clients integrated solutions to optimize the diversification of client portfolios, whether that be in targeting access-restricted private equity funds or niche real estate funds.
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White papersMulti Asset: a solid total portfolio approach for a complex world
An increasing number of institutional investors have adopted a total portfolio approach (TPA) as a response to the weaknesses of more traditional strategic asset allocation (SAA)-based methodologies. We believe the current crisis will reinforce this trend, as it is probably marking a paradigm shift in financial markets. This shift could be as important as the change in US monetary policy brought in by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker at the beginning of the 1980s, which led to a long period of disinflation, lower interest rates and high asset returns.
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White papersForecasting the Next Decade: Navigating Uncharted Waters
Barings Multi Asset Group combines the underlying factors that will drive markets over the long term with today’s valuations to produce total return forecasts for major asset classes over the next ten years.
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White papersMarket weekly – Time to add risk in multi-asset portfolios?
Senior investment strategist Daniel Morris and Denis Panel, Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Asset and quantitative solutions team (MAQS), discuss the challenges to asset allocation in this volatile and uncertain market environment.
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White papersFive portfolio construction themes for—and after—the global pandemic
At the end of 2019, we titled our year-ahead outlook, “20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth.” That was then. Markets have since been thrown into turmoil, and investors are grappling with positioning their portfolios to minimize the damage from the coronavirus-induced crisis and take advantage of an eventual recovery.
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White papersMacro Insights and Asset Allocation
Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer – Multi-Asset Class Strategies, discusses the impact of last week’s Fed actions and stimulus package along with how this decline is different than 2008 in terms of markets and investment implications.
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White papersMulti-Asset Class Income Fund Introduction
In this short video, Joe Mc Donnell, Head of Portfolio Solutions & Portfolio Manager for Multi Asset Income looks at some of the themes driving demand for income as well as supply challenges in meeting this need. Joe outlines Neuberger Berman’s approach to generating a consistent income through diversified multi asset class portfolios.
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White papersFive Multi-Asset Strategies for 2020’s Challenges
The last decade produced great performance across most asset classes. But in the 2020s, we expect investment market returns will be lower and risk harder to manage. Looking forward, a disciplined multi-asset approach will be especially valuable to identify opportunities and help mitigate setbacks.
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White papersHarnessing the illiquidity premium
There is a general consensus that an illiquidity premium exists and the benefits of investing in illiquid credit are well understood. Yet illiquidity constraints create risks and restrict the ability of investors to react quickly to market movements. In order to harness the illiquidity premium while remaining mindful of the inherent risks, investors need to challenge assumptions about current liquidity conditions and maintain flexibility and an open mind.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - November 2019
CIO Views - Limb for markets will not last forever
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White papersBuilding Your DGF for the Journey Ahead
Too many Diversified Growth Funds (DGFs) have left UK investors disappointed with performance. In this paper, we show how a DGF can be designed with clear objectives, constructed using guidelines that are genuinely outcome-oriented, and then managed to achieve its objectives.
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Asset Manager NewsAsset Allocation Update - MAY 2019
Cash flows and discount rates have moved in opposite directions over the past six months, and discount rate moves have triumphed. Take the year so far. Equity cash flows, proxied by earnings growth expectations1, have weakened across each major equity bloc or region, shifting horizontally to the left in Figure 1. Yet stock market returns have risen – moving up vertically – apparently shrugging off the weaker cash flow picture.
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White papersVideo: Reflecting on six years of Multi-Strategy Credit
As the strategy hits a key milestone in June, Fraser Lundie, Head of Hermes Credit, looks back on how Multi-Strategy Credit has fared in challenging markets since inception.
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White papersDelta: the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
Are we experiencing the final late-cycle surge in credit markets, or is there more distance left to run? Alternatively, do low policy-rate peaks in heavily indebted economies signal the beginning of Japanification in the US and Europe?
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White papersItaly: no short-term confrontation with the EU, but uncertainty in the mid-term.
In the new forecasts for the 2020 budget and beyond from the Italian government (from the latest economic blueprint, of 9 April: “The Stability and Growth Path, SGP”), its economic projections come much closer to consensus than previous ones, pointing to weaker GDP growth.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views: A sweet spot, but keep a sharp eye on the macro side
Risky assets have been in a very strong uptrend since the beginning of the year. The key question now is, where do we go from here? There are two main driving forces to focus on in the current context.
