All Podcast articles – Page 14
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PodcastHigh Yield: Why Fundamentals May Be Stronger Than You Think
Barings’ David Mihalick and Chris Sawyer assess the health of the global high yield bond and loan markets against a backdrop of COVID uncertainty, potentially higher rates and an ever-increasing focus on ESG.
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PodcastCAT Bonds: Finding Reassurance in Reinsurance
From massive flooding in Germany and Italy to earthquakes and wildfires in California, these natural disasters, among others, continue to ravage the globe. But as climate risk concerns grow, investors may be wondering how they can potentially diversify their portfolios.
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PodcastTurning a New Leaf in Chinese Investing
Historically, as the second largest economy in the world, China has presented a myriad of opportunities to investors worldwide. However, due to the regulatory changes outlined by the Chinese government, trends suggest that investors have started to reconsider their allocations in China.
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: The democratisation of private assets
Private assets have been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, with estimates that global alternative assets under management will have grown from 10 trillion dollars at the end of 2020, to 17 trillion dollars by 2025.
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PodcastThinking Big When It Comes to Small Caps
The word volatility is not something that’s foreign to the small-cap market. However, with the rise of the meme stock phenomenon making headlines earlier this year, many people around the world have likely been keeping their eyes out for unique opportunities in the market. But when it comes to small caps, what other investment tools might be available to new and seasoned investors alike?
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: Inflation - is it real?
From the ‘Great Moderation’ of the 1980’s, to the current day, the inflation environment has been relatively benign, with the policies of recent years mostly concerned with preventing deflation. However, as economies begin to rebound from the Covid crisis, inflation has ticked up. Is the current rise in inflation transitory, or could we see Central banks move to tighten policy?
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PodcastEM Debt: Assessing the Impact of China’s Crackdowns
Omotunde Lawal, Head of EM Corporate Debt, sheds light on China’s recent regulatory crackdowns on industries ranging from technology to education to property, and explains the risks and opportunities these actions may present for fixed income investors.
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PodcastThe Great Housing Diaspora of COVID-19
As a result of mass deurbanization during the pandemic, where fleets of people left cities for more suburban areas, residential housing markets have seen unprecedented buyer activity over the last several months. But as buyer demand continues to saturate the market, where does that leave supply? Could deurbanization continue as a post-COVID trend? And what else might investors want to consider in this space?
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PodcastH2 2021 investment outlook: recovery, risk and the ‘sustainable revolution’
This year’s market environment has been challenging to navigate. A number of themes have captured the attention of our investment floor, and our managers have been considering how these are likely to evolve going forward.
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PodcastPodcast: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Digital Assets: Love ‘em, Hate ‘em, but Don’t Ignore ‘em
Why investors and asset managers shouldn’t ignore blockchain and digital assets.
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PodcastThe Electrification of Mobility
As oil prices start to go up and sustainability goals have become top of mind for many drivers, vehicle and machinery electrification have increased in popularity—now more than ever. So what are global vehicle manufacturers doing to meet consumer demand?
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: Sustainability in private credit – can the two go hand in hand?
While sustainability has been most obviously implemented within public markets, appetite from investors to access private market opportunities has grown.
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PodcastMaking the REIT Move In Real Estate
With the virtual shift that COVID-19 placed on our society along with resulting closures of brick and mortar retail across the globe, REITs, or Real Estate Investment Trusts, may not have had their best year in 2020.
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PodcastEM Debt: How ESG & Economics Are Shaping the Outlook
Ricardo Adrogue and Kawtar Ed-Dahmani see room for positive economic surprises in emerging markets despite concerns from COVID to higher interest rates to inflation.
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: Navigating the road to real estate recovery
Picking up on the themes from their latest Global Real Estate Outlook, the real estate team at M&G Investments discuss the outlook across different sectors and geographies. Which could see rapid growth and which may lag behind?
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PodcastThe mindful investor
Can investment professionals benefit from approaching their working day more mindfully? Could mindfulness hold the key to reducing work-related stress while boosting productivity and making us better colleagues? To find out more, tune in to the latest episode of Fundamentals.
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: The folly of forecasting – finding value in an uncertain world
There has been significant positive momentum in credit markets since the Covid crisis began, underpinned by unprecedented levels of government and central bank support. However, despite market expectations of a sharp rebound in economic activity, there remain significant risks to this view.
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PodcastThe AIQ Podcast: Climate emergency
This latest episode of the AIQ Podcast goes back to basics on climate: we explore leading scientists’ understanding of how the world is changing, as well as the investment community’s response.
