All Multi-Asset articles – Page 9
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White papersInvestment Strategy Insights: Micro Optimism Versus Macro Pessimism - Which is Right?
The investment world seems split into two camps about markets and the economy: A bottom-up, micro view that sees a broad upturn, and a macro perspective seeing continued slow growth and very low interest rates. Who’s right?
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2017 Midyear Outlook: Great Expectations for Global Growth
Markus Schomer, CFA, Chief Economist, explores the shifting political risk, movement toward more synchronized global growth, and the regime change happening in markets
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Video: Multi-Asset Midyear Outlook
Michael J. Kelly, CFA, Global Head of Multi-Asset, explores the new market regime and why an active approach is critical.
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Big Tailwinds Are Backing Emerging Market Assets
As global growth firms up, many emerging market economies are powering ahead of the developed world. In aggregate, emerging economies are expected to grow by 4.1% in 2017, with developed markets growing by just over 2%. These superior growth dynamics aren’t the only tailwinds supporting emerging market (EM) assets.
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Investment Strategy Insights: The Evolving China Mosaic
Assessing the prospects for China’s economy can be compared to assembling a mosaic. While the picturing emerging is somewhat optimistic, we think caution – and continued data gathering – is essential where China is concerned
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The Cost of Trigger-Happy Investing
Brexit, Trump. There were plenty of big surprises last year. The one that may matter most for investment portfolios is how financial markets responded.
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Video: Welcoming A New Market Regime
In this video, Michael J. Kelly, Global Head of Multi-Asset, explores this turning point for investing along with which opportunities are emerging.
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Investment Strategy Insights: A Trump-Induced Global Trade Lull?
While we expect trade frictions to rise, we still believe the overall Trump agenda remains a net plus to global markets.
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The role of low volatility strategies in asset allocation
Investing in strategies that exploit the low volatility anomaly has grown tremendously popular in recent years. Low volatility strategies aim to provide market-like returns with significantly lower risk, translating to superior risk-adjusted returns, especially when embedded in broader portfolio allocations.
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French elections: what to expect should Le Pen prevail
Mark Burgess looks at what a Le Pen presidency could mean for France, Europe and the broader global landscape and argues that the immediate reaction of markets is likely to be a spike in volatility for French assets due to the uncertainty of what is to come.
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[Summary] Outnumbered but not outpaced – the bold change we need for female fund manager talent to break through
While financial services has made some progress towards parity, asset management remains an outlier with only 7% female representation. Alison Jefferis argues that it’s time to embrace bold change to redress the balance as the industry is missing out on a deep pool of talent and resources.
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Investment Strategy Insights: Delays and Dilution Are Ahead for US Corporate Tax Reform
Expect regulatory rollback, not corporate tax cuts, to be Trump’s swiftest and most impactful economic stimulant.
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Investment Strategy Insights: Making America a Great Place to do Business Again
For traders, markets may be a little ahead of themselves. But for intermediate-term investors, Trump’s policies are likely to have a more positive effect than what is currently priced in.
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Investment Strategy Insights: Trump and Markets - The Known and the Unknown
Markets are pricing in a big net plus to a Donald Trump presidency. Is that reasonable?
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Fasten Your Seat Belt: Multi-Asset Outlook
The year ahead will bring secular turning points. Michael J. Kelly, CFA, Global Head of Multi-Asset, explores potential beneficiaries as the world pivots, including commodities producers and countries with accelerating and domestically sourced growth.
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Catalysts for Change: Our 2017 Investment Outlook
We surveyed the state of the markets on behalf of multi-asset, fixed income, equity, and private market investors around the world.
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Trump Wins: What’s Next for Markets – And What It Means for Portfolios
Now that the dust has settled from the election outcome, we take a closer look at the implications of the Trump presidency for equities, fixed income, and multi-asset investing as well as on the global economy.
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Preparing for a Low-Return World: Insights From Our Latest Capital Market Line
We are finding select emerging market economies more attractive as, one by one, countries and asset classes begin decoupling in this low-growth environment.
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Investment Strategy Insights: A Better Prognosis
We are seeing positive inflection points that we think bode well for 2017.
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Factor the future: the added value of Multi-Asset Factor Investing
A growing number of investors have begun using a factor-based investment approach when constructing their portfolios. Supported by academic research, factor-based investments can offer attractive returns and often carry lower fees. So far, many offerings limit themselves to one factor within a “long-only” investment strategy on single stocks. However, the underlying drivers of factors are universal so the factors are present in other asset classes as well.
