Outlooks – Page 94
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How Will Economics & Politics Shape Markets in H2 2020?
Dr. Christopher Smart, Head of the Barings Investment Institute, discusses the second half outlook including views on the current recovery, U.S./China trade skirmishes and the U.S. presidential election. Don’t miss his 10 one-word answers to our most difficult questions.
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Fast fashion during the pandemic
As global lockdowns forced high-street clothing shops to shut earlier this year, fast fashion has been under severe pressure. The coronavirus crisis has resulted in a slump in demand for new clothes, which has had a ripple effect across the industry’s international supply chains.
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How can private equity investors ensure capital is put to work through the Covid-19 crisis?
The Covid-19 crisis may interfere with the steady deployment of private equity capital. Investors will need to evolve their traditional view of the market to keep their money working as hard as possible.
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Q&A: The Pandemic and Politics
Assessing the 2020 race in light of COVID-19, economic weakness and civil unrest.
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The Past, Present and Future of Insurance-Linked Securities
As the insurance industry has been potentially facing one of the biggest losses in history due to COVID-19, what lessons can we take from the past that could allow us to find opportunities in the future? Peter DiFiore, PhD, Managing Director of Insurance-Linked Securities, sits down with us to discuss the history of Insurance-Linked Securities, the impact of COVID-19 along with what the future might hold for the asset class as we move forward into the “new normal”.
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Emerging Markets: Opportunities And The Road Ahead
Our Emerging Markets Equity CIO Manraj Sekhon provides the team’s midyear outlook and reasons for optimism.
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Asian Health Care Equities: All Dressed Up, But Nowhere to Go (Yet)
Templeton Global Equity reviews trends and opportunities in this sector.
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The “Pandemic Put” Can’t Last Forever
As the second half comes into focus, investors will have to contemplate a world in which the risks remain—and the backstops come with strings.
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GCC/MENA Bond Market Update
Our CIOs’ Global Investment Outlook offers perspective on the investment landscape and the US elections.
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Emerging market equities – Assessing the regional prospects
Even if we expect emerging market equities to outperform their developed market peers, country and sector differences, as always, will be significant.
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ECB QE Monitor – June 2020
ECB strengthened its intention to make its action long-term: The ECB revised its medium-term inflation target substantially on the downside. Core inflation is forecast to reach only 0.9% in 2022 (0.8% in 2020, 0.7% in 2021). The ECB justified the adjustment of the size of the PEPP by ...
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South Korea: A Shining Example of Emerging Market Leadership
Many countries have learned valuable lessons from prior crisis periods that have helped them navigate the current coronavirus pandemic. South Korea is one example.
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Giving credit to decarbonisation (part 1)
What are the hallmarks of best-practice carbon disclosures among corporate-bond issuers, and how can climate action positively impact the performance of companies?
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The day after #9 - Covid-19 crisis, a catalyst for change and strengthening the EU
The Conference on the Future of Europe, planned earlier this year, will probably open in September in a very different context than initially expected. Who will chair it and whether a new treaty for the union will be on the agenda remains unclear, but the need to address repositioning Europe post the Covid-19 pandemic is clear.
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The inflation genie – Understanding the drivers for the medium term
The COVID-19 pandemic has revived a familiar conversation about the inflation genie escaping the bottle. The speculation is similar to the one that surfaced in the immediate aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and at various points since then: That we are likely to experience a burst of inflation in the coming years.
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Asset Allocation Committee Outlook - 3Q 2020
“We are confident that the economy will be bigger in 12 months’ time than it is today, and therefore we are biased toward taking risk. But we are unable to reconcile the the size and speed of the stock market rebound at the beginning of June with what is likely to be a gradual re-opening process and moderate medium-term growth.”
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Sharpe Thinking: reality sets in
What’s moving the investment landscape? In these turbulent markets, we bring you views from our portfolio managers, analysts and economists, delivered by our Investment Office – an independent body ensuring that our investment teams perform in the best interest of clients.
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Why farmland now?
Amidst unprecedented market volatility, Westchester Group Investment Management, an investment specialist of Nuveen, explains why they believe farmland is a durable and consistent investment.
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Maturing renewable energy markets offer an incremental opportunity set
Historically, the typical risk profile of renewable energy investments has been determined to a high degree of regulation, intended to eliminate price risk through fixed feed-in tariff systems and volume risk through embedded priority to dispatch mechanisms. Together with the subsidy-like character of tariffs, this has been a major driver in the tremendous development of the European renewable energy investment market over the last 20 years. It moved renewable energy investments away from its niche presence within the infrastructure space and into the focus of the broader investment community as a stand-alone asset allocation.
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The EU Green Deal: shaping infrastructure impact investing
Generali Global Infrastructure (GGI) Managing Partner Gilles Lengaigne and Senior Advisor Stéphane Voisin, discuss how the EU Green Deal is consolidating GGI’s impact investment strategy and, more broadly, the historic opportunity for infrastructure investors to engage in outcome-based investment approaches.