All Risk Management articles
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White papersEM Debt: Time to Load Up?
A number of factors have converged to create a potentially compelling opportunity in EM debt. And with prices at attractive levels relative to history, now may be a good time to consider an allocation to the asset class.
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White papersPart II: Resilient Investing Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
In an increasingly uncertain environment, PGIM surveyed investors across the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Middle East to uncover how geopolitical risks are changing the way institutions are constructing their portfolios and approaching risk management. The results shed light on the risks that investors fear most, as well as the actions they are taking to either mitigate the potential fallout or capitalize on opportunities that emerge.
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White papersGlobal Outlook 2025
In 2025, we believe the core question to dominate economic discussions is where the unobservable natural rate (r*, the neutral rate of interest that supports full employment and constant inflation) lies and when central banks should stop cutting.
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VideoThe enduring appeal of Significant Risk Transfer looks set to continue
Demonstrating strong recent performance, Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) has been a favoured destination for investors seeking to capitalise on some of the attractive fundamentals offered by the asset class, such as the potential for high cash flows.
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White papersNot all net zero pathways are created equal
Improving real estate’s sustainability profile is pivotal to addressing climate change, as the sector contributes some 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But improving this sustainability profile isn’t just a ‘save the world’ exercise. For building owners and associated stakeholders it is also vital to establish the necessary long-term action plans towards net zero to protect income streams and value and manage costs.
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White papersRisk Factor, Risk Premium and Black-Litterman Model
Risk factor models are now widely used by fund managers to construct portfolios and assess both return and risk based on the behaviour of common risk factors to which the portfolios are exposed. However, fund managers often have subjective views on these risk factors that they may wish to incorporate into their asset allocation strategies.
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White papersGlobal Risk Report: Resilient Investing Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
Investors face a challenging dilemma. While geopolitical strife calls for rethinking risk management, shocks may appear too frequent, and too great in number, to effectively mitigate their impact. Some investors feel the best course of action is to focus on trends that are more predictable or quantifiable—and deal with geopolitical surprises when they transpire.
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White papersThe shifting landscape within direct lending
The direct lending market is constantly evolving. Recently greater competition within certain parts of the market has impacted pricing and eroded lending terms. For these reasons M&G Investments believes in taking a conservative and highly selective approach.
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White papersPrime opportunities within direct lending
Within the direct lending universe M&G Investments believes the most attractive opportunities lie within the more conservative end of the mid-market. We explore why this is likely to be the case and how conditions within the asset class have changed.
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PodcastDemystifying Capital Solutions Strategies
Michael Searles, Head of North America – Capital Solutions, explains why capital solutions strategies are garnering increased interest from institutional investors looking to diversify their private credit allocations and gain access to potentially uncorrelated returns.
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VideoAPAC Private Credit
We started senior lending in the Asia Pacific private credit market in 2011—and together with our 30+ years of managing private credit globally, our global scale, and a disciplined approach, we have become one of the most active lenders in APAC today.
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White papersUN antimicrobial resistance meeting to tackle superbugs
With the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) taking place in New York in September, Ming Yang highlights the growing threat of superbugs, and explains how we engage with companies on this topic.
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White papersPrivate equity fosters agritech innovation
The growth of impact investing in private equity strategies is enabling a broader set of investors to benefit from companies delivering transformative agritech solutions and regenerating broken food systems.
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White papersThe rise of semi-liquid secondaries funds
The secondary market in private equity consists of transactions where investors buy and sell existing private equity fund interests. In the first half of 2024, the global secondaries market had an estimated volume of USD 68 billion, which represents a 58% increase on the previous year’s 1H volume of USD 43 billion. The market can be broadly categorized into two main segments: GP-led secondaries and LP-led secondaries.
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White papersA new cycle commences
The last two years have been testing for real estate investors in Europe. From the post-pandemic highs to a sharp reversal driven by inflation and interest rates, the investment environment feels as cold as the year to date has been warm. But just as past cycles turned, so will this one. And there are indications that it is.
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White papersSainsbury’s case study
Following research published by Oxfam on the supply chain human and labour rights risks that UK food retailers were exposed to, we engaged with Sainsbury’s to identify and manage these risks.
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White papersBasel III Endgame and the “Reg Cap” Opportunity
Tighter bank capital regulation looks set to make U.S. banks adopt a risk-transfer practice that has long been common in Europe—and attractive to investors.
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White papersRelative value in real assets: A spectrum of opportunities
Our real assets research team drills into proprietary data to compare risk and return across sectors.
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White papersA Framework for Value Investing
As providers of an active value strategy, our team has built an investment framework through study and experience that we believe can lead to persistent outperformance. In this memo we outline this investment process based on a compilation of insights published by our investment team.
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White papersWhy We Believe Quality Is a Good Guide for Value Investing
Value investing involves picking stocks that are trading at attractive prices as determined by metrics such as price book and price earnings. Clients sometimes ask us why Breton Hill takes a quality approach to value investing when so many of our peers are focused on distressed value. In this note we review the history of applying quality to value investing in an effort to improve outcomes. We then conduct an out-of-sample analysis to assess whether this effect still holds in the more recent decade subsequent to the publication of well-known quality papers.
