All North America articles – Page 8
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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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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
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Case study: Trade the When Issued (WI) security a month in advance using Micro Treasury Yield futures
Learn how investors can use smaller-sized, yield-based Treasury futures contracts to roll when-issue in advance, less expensively than previously possible.
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Asset Manager News
GTIS Partners and Ryan Companies Form Opportunity Zone JV to Develop Multi-Story Last Mile Industrial Project in Seattle, WA
GTIS Partners (“GTIS”), a real assets investment firm that manages in excess of $4 billion in gross assets with a US focus on residential and industrial/logistics investments, and Ryan Companies US, Inc., a national developer, designer, builder, capital markets partner and real estate manager offering full-service commercial real estate solutions, have formed a Joint Venture to develop 65 S Horton St. (“the Project”), a four-story, class-A, last mile industrial/urban logistics property located in one of Seattle, WA’s Qualified Opportunity Zones. The building, once completed, will span 126,646 square feet and is expected to cost around $42.5 million.
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Salary or sick leave – the impossible choice
In the fifth article in our series about the social impacts of the pandemic, Emily DeMasi looks at how the lack of national paid family and medical leave policies in the US has contributed to widening inequalities.
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Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions Allocation Views
Our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team retain the view that peak growth may already have been reached, and could remain positive for some time before starting to slow down.
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US Multifamily Investment Opportunity Post-Covid
Clarion Partners: Rental housing in the United States has consistently seen increased demand from institutional real estate investors.
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On my Mind: Something Has to Give
Dr. Sonal Desai discusses the US Treasuries sharp rally over recent weeks with yields dropping. She outlines three possible scenarios and the logical implications of each.
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Inflation Expectations And Interest Rates In The US
Recently, concerns about rising inflation rates have grown. Yield curves have steepened and interest rate levels have increased.
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Munis in a new light
Things are not always what they seem. This is proving true in the municipal bond market, where a perception shift is underway that carries profound implications – and opportunities – for investors.
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Biden agenda: tackling income inequality and its potential inflation impact
The election of President Joe Biden has led to a turn in US government policy. This paper explores income and wealth inequality in the United States and President Biden’s policies aimed at addressing this issue, including his proposal of a corporate tax hike.
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The Fed’s Last Call for the Punchbowl?
Dr. Sonal Desai discusses the Fed’s challenge. With high uncertainty on the inflation and employment outlook, adjusting its exceptionally loose monetary stance at the right time and pace become a very difficult high-wire act.
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Market’s view of transitory inflation in the US may be premature
We have seen an interesting paradox in the markets over the last couple of months: 10-year US Treasury yields and break-even rates on 10-year maturity TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) have moved lower even as inflation has moved meaningfully higher.
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Investment Insights: Market’s view of transitory inflation in the US may be premature
We have seen an interesting paradox in the markets over the last couple of months: 10-year US Treasury yields and break-even rates on 10-year maturity TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) have moved lower even as inflation has moved meaningfully higher.
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What if the Democrats succeed in passing the capital gains tax?
Since Joe Biden’s elections, most observers have been surprised by how Democrats managed to pass significant fiscal policies despite their thin majority. We believe the capital gains tax hike could go ahead regardless of the Republicans opposition.
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Muni Market View on the American Jobs Plan
Highlights of US President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, and how it could impact the muni market.
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Webinar
U.S. direct lending market update
Ken Kencel, President & CEO, Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen, gives his insights on recent trends and market activities as well as the impacts of the pandemic.
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Asset Manager News
GLP Raises US$850 Million with the Launch of the Largest US$ Green Subordinated Perpetual Securities Globally
GLP has successfully priced a landmark US$850 million Regulation S offering (the “Offering”) of Green Subordinated Perpetual Non-Call 5-year Securities (the “Green Perpetual Securities”) at a coupon of 4.500%.