All North America articles – Page 7
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Where are the Workers?
As the Federal Reserve debates its monetary tightening timeline, the labor market is an important factor to watch in the year ahead, according to our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team. Read their thoughts on the labor market’s implications for both monetary policy and risk assets.
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Podcast
Investment Symposium Series – Olivier Blanchard on US inflation…
In this time of profound change for societies, economies, and cultures, our goal is to provide investors with thought leadership on the factors shaping our age of transformation and the impact for financial markets and investing.
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Fixed income outlook: Is the market overly hawkish?
After the bond bear market of 2021, valuations look more attractive in an environment where interest rate rises may already be priced in.
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Fed officials’ discomfort is growing with the inflation overshoot: why it will remain cautious
US consumer prices jumped by 6.2% in October, their highest level in 30 years! Deteriorating inflation data have pushed markets towards forecasting a faster pace of tapering and a more rapid removal of accommodation in 2022. We expect the Fed to act gradually as Covid remains a major risk and as the Fed would like to see a higher participation rate.
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What Rhymes With “Transitory”?
The search continues for a word that describes inflation that will not derail the recovery.
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Research Report
PIMCO Prime Real Estate: U.S. Multi-Family Spotlight
The U.S. residential rental sector will attract increasing international capital buying into trends accelerated by the pandemic. These include U.S. domestic migration to the Sun Belt and suburbanization within cities. The sector has also retained its inherent strengths: markets are large and liquid, and residential improves institutional portfolios’ resilience to volatility and risk-adjusted returns.
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Surging Construction Costs: Implications for Commercial Real Estate
Clarion Partners: U.S. multifamily construction companies have experienced steep material price increases and a lack of available construction supplies.
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Fed tapering begins: mission accomplished
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) appears to have struck a neutral balance in its November 3 meeting statement and Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference. The Fed was careful to differentiate the formal start to monthly tapering of the asset purchase programme with future adjustments to the Federal Funds Rate. The Fed maintained the transitory inflation language, but specifically pointed to inflation “factors that are expected to be transitory” rather than inflation as a whole.
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Recovery Gathers Further Momentum
The U.S. property market recovery continues unabated in the current economic climate. The Barings Real Estate team weighs in.
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Video
Beyond Headline Multiples: US Equities webcast, November 2021
Join Mark Sherlock, Henry Biddle and Steve Chiavarone for the latest webcast on Federated Hermes US SMID.
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Normalizing policy and market risks
The United States Federal Reserve (Fed) is faced with continued challenges as it seeks to manage both the cyclical and structural economic fallout from the pandemic and move beyond its ultra-accommodative policies.
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The Recent Performance of ESG Investing, the Covid-19 Catalyst and the Biden Effect
The purpose of this paper is to appraise recent ESG trends in global equity markets. It contributes to a broader research project started at Amundi in 2014 on the relevance of ESG. Since the latest update in 2019, we have lived through a global pandemic that profoundly reshaped the global economy and society, and an eventful change of leadership in the United States.
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Video
US Economic Outlook: Inflation, Growth and the Fed
Most measures of inflation are at multiyear highs. Headline inflation has gone up 5.4% over the last 12 months, and that’s a rate of increase that we haven’t seen in more than a decade.
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Opening the Tap: Opportunities in Regulated Water Utilities
The need to bring capital to the nation’s water utility systems is clear: Deteriorated water infrastructure affects both the population and the environment.
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Allocation Views: Burning US$5 bills
Our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team retain the view of heightened levels of inflation and persistent market worries in relation to the peaking of growth in many of the major economies.
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The U.S. office market in a “post-COVID” world: shifting challenges offer rewards and pitfalls
The office sector faces unique challenges during the coming decade. In this special report, we examine the return to a new normal for the office property type and what it means for investors going forward.
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This Is Not a 60/40 Environment
The shift to a mid-cycle expansion beset with unusually high levels of uncertainty could bring a new test for asset allocators.
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Vaccinations and Boosters; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Makes a Strong Statement
We thought it would be helpful to opine on conflicting data with respect to the potential protection afforded by natural immunity versus that derived from vaccination, as well as the recent FDA decision to recommend COVID-19 boosters for those over 65 years of age and/or at high risk of severe COVID-19.
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Video
Mi Insights: The Path Of The US Dollar
In this month’s Mi Insights video, Jeremy Gatto, portfolio manager in our Cross Asset Solutions team, discusses our overweight position in the USD and what has been driving the currency this year. Jeremy also addresses the important text book drivers of the world’s reserve currency.
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Q2 2021 U.S. Multifamily Investment Opportunity Post-COVID
U.S. rental housing has seen over time consistently increased demand from institutional real estate investors. Its positioning as an integral part of real estate investment portfolios is demonstrated by its current weighting of 26.8% in the open- end diversified core equity index (ODCE).1