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Built to Serve the Unique Needs of Insurance Companies
Barings, a subsidiary of MassMutual, is built to serve the unique needs of insurance companies. Our team of specialists develops customized solutions, leveraging the firm’s deep insurance experience across public and private asset classes.
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Navigating listed infrastructure investing and tariffs
Time to “play defense” after an eventful first quarter?
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Fixed on Bonds: What do tariffs mean for the automotives industry?
Threats of tariffs have been hitting the sector from multiple angles. It is hard to keep up, but this is what we know so far.
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CIO view: an irreversible reversal of globalisation?
“In all the years my career spans, I have been through a very wide range of economic and financial market events that have generated extraordinary moves in the prices of bonds, equities, gold, oil and every other asset class you can think of. However, I cannot recall one that has been as fast-moving, volatile and possibly irrational as what we have been through in 2025 so far.”
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How a core-plus strategy may enhance your portfolio
Principal Real Estate has been investing in commercial real estate (CRE) for more than 60 years and in core-plus real estate for over 20 years. Having experienced numerous market cycles in that time, we believe CRE values have largely adjusted for the current cycle, setting the stage for an attractive entry point for private equity investors.
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How are investors responding to the latest wave of tariffs from Donald Trump?
“The news flow is constant and ever changing,” says Premier Miton’s CIO and lead manager of the Diversified fund range Neil Birrell.
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Fixed on Bonds: who are the potential winners and losers from Trump tariffs?
In the Premier Miton Fixed Income team’s latest Fixed on Bonds blog post, Premier Miton credit analyst Joe Macland considers some possible impacts on consumer brands and asks fund manager Simon Prior to sum up what this has to do with fixed income investing.
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Liberation Day: Market uncertainty, global growth concerns, and U.S. recession fears
The U.S. announced sweeping new tariffs—some exceeding 50%—shocking markets and sharply raising the risk of recession and stagflation. With inflation likely to rise and GDP growth to fall by an estimated 2.5%, investors are now eyeing potential fiscal offsets like tax cuts and deregulation. Until clarity emerges, risk assets may stay under pressure as global economies brace for the fallout.
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Four-quadrant report - March 2025
This report offers a clear view of U.S. commercial real estate through the four-quadrant framework. It highlights how economic, political, and market trends are impacting public and private equity and debt, with a summary of current conditions and key investment themes.
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Four ways to potentially enhance returns through leverage
Successfully utilizing leverage to enhance returns requires deep expertise. As a top-ten global real estate manager with $22 billion in real estate debt AUM and 60+ years of experience, Principal Real Estate knows how to make leverage work. With $124 billion in transactions over the past decade, we help optimize returns.
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North American energy infrastructure: stocks for uncertain times
Jim Wright, Premier Miton Global Infrastructure Income Fund Manager, considers the advantages of visible growth pipelines and the three huge themes driving them.
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Watch the US dollar and Treasury yields to understand the potential effects of tariffs
Move beyond the headline noise to assess the investment implications
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Multi-Asset Positioning in a Trump 2.0 Policy Regime
With major US policy change unfolding, flexibility across and within asset classes will be critical.
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Trump’s impact on the labor market: Quick takes on capital markets
The Trump administration’s bold policy initiatives to increase government efficiency and tighten immigration will likely have macroeconomic consequences for the labor market, potentially weighing on labor demand and supply. However, the combined effect will likely also be very nuanced, suggesting the data over the coming months will be difficult to parse and understand, making policymaking even more challenging for the Fed.
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U.S. Housing Chartbook
The U.S. consumer remains strong on the back of a healthy labor market and inflation is moving back to target, albeit slowly.
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AI - What’s changed?
Have Deepseek decided to give away gold for nothing? In this article, Fund Manager Hugh Grieves discusses the latest AI exuberance, and shares why the saying ‘history does not repeat but it often rhymes’ might be correct in this case.
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President Trump: First week
Following the US elections, the initial market reaction reflected a sense of US exceptionalism, marked by rising equities and a stronger dollar.
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Talking Markets – US Equities, January 2025
American exceptionalism; the Mag 7, or are wider factors at play? In this edition of Talking Markets, Hugh Greives, Fund Manager of the Premier Miton US Opportunities Fund shares his outlook for 2025, discussing future Fed rate cuts, Trump’s presidency, the hype and reality of AI, and what all of this could mean for US equity investors.
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2025’s Biggest Blockbuster – Utilities vs. Interest Rates
Premier Miton’s Jim Wright, Fund Manager of the Premier Miton Global Infrastructure Income Fund, shares the three reasons behind electricity demand growth in the USA, and why they are long term trends, rather than short term impacts.