All Risk Management articles – Page 4
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White papers2024 Best Ideas: Rethinking Resiliency and Risk
Our 2024 Best Ideas offers investors a look at where we see opportunity, while our case studies show how we help our clients overcome obstacles.
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White papersStay Focused on Earnings
Should a sticky inflation release cause investors to revise their outlook for equities?
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White papersPhysical Climate Risks and Underwriting Practices in Assets and Portfolios
Physical climate risk data can be a powerful tool for managing asset and portfolio risk and returns. Learn what strategies leading firms are using to manage physical climate risks and navigate market challenges. The latest report from the Urban Land Institute and LaSalle Investment Management builds on their previous report, How to Choose, Use, and Better Understand Climate Risk Analytics, to describe how leading firms are leveraging physical climate-risk data in underwriting practices. With insight into asset- and portfolio-level risk becoming increasingly easy to obtain, new challenges lie in effective interpretation and integration of information into investment practices. Relying on research and interviews with industry leaders, this report provides a nuanced exploration of this emergent issue.
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White papersThe climate-health nexus: risks and opportunities
As investors, we are increasingly considering and assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the economy, financial markets, and our portfolios.
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White papersEngagement case study: Prudential
We have been engaging with Prudential since 2010 on a range of issues including board effectiveness, culture, risk management, sustainability strategy, and remuneration.
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: The long-term megatrend of European private asset-backed finance
While Europe’s private asset-backed finance markets have been growing in importance for a number of years, it’s only in recent years where we’ve seen the regulatory pressures that banks are facing come to the fore, fuelling a strong desire to shrink balance sheets and increase capital.
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White papersTaking Flight: The Opportunity in Aircraft Financing
Investments in aircraft can offer steady cash flow and a return profile that’s uncorrelated to broad market indices.
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White papersCosting the Earth: measuring corporations’ impact on biodiversity loss
Investors can no longer afford to ignore the devastating economic effects of biodiversity loss, but they need better tools to assess and manage the risks. We introduce the new scientific research by our academic partners at the MISTRA FinBio programme which should help guide investors.
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White papersHow distressed debt can help spread risk and diversify returns
In 2024, there are multiple macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges that are likely to continue to impact global markets. At the same time these challenges are likely to lead to a rich opportunity set for a special situations investment strategy.
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White papersFiorino: Where physics meets finance
Fiorino visits Switzerland to uncover the hidden links between the most successful particle physics theory to date and the ongoing Basel bank capital risk management experiment (now in version IV)…
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White papersEarnings Remain Key in a Confusing Macro Picture
Macro uncertainty is high, but the earnings season has been solid—and not only in the U.S.
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White papersInstitutional investors’ approaches to responsible investing
In this paper, we aim to understand institutional investors’ approach to responsible investing, which has become an important consideration in many investors’ portfolio management decisions. We conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with more than twenty institutional investors – mostly consisting of pension plans and central banks –, and complement our insights with relevant findings from academic literature.
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White papersMulti-asset: a cycle without a textbook?
The year 2024 begins in a market cycle that is far from textbook. What types of scenarios might this give rise to? We outline the possibilities in this quarterly edition of Simply put. Notably, our projections suggest that we are at the dawn of a challenging period for Sharpe ratios, where risk-taking could be poorly rewarded.
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White papersSome Credit for Active Management
Tempted by high yield? Here’s why we think investors may want to consider resisting the temptation to invest passively.
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White papersAllview: Market Risk Monitor - December 2023
Each month, Allspring’s Investment Analytics team assembles a top 10 list of market risks that it believes have the potential to influence investment portfolios.
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White papersBuilding a regime-resistant, long-run allocation in multi asset
MARS, our Multi-Asset Research Series, focuses on complex topics in the realm of multi asset to bring quantitative investment research back to Earth. This fourth edition considers how to bridge the gap between existing approaches – the multi-regime distribution of assets and risk-parity investing – in order to optimise risk-based portfolio construction.
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White papersFed Meeting Impact: Is It More Than You Realize?
This paper discusses how Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings have a significant impact on options pricing, creating risks and opportunities for investors employing options-based strategies.
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PodcastClimate Action 1,2,3!
As long-term infrastructure investors, it is vital that we manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change and the energy transition. Our target is to achieve net zero emissions in our portfolio by 2050.
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White papersDo better volatility forecasts improve risk-based portfolios?
MARS, our Multi-Asset Research Series, focuses on complex topics in the realm of multi asset to bring quantitative investment research back to Earth. This third edition completes our previous research on range-based volatility measures – or models that account for intraday patterns – by asking if such measures could improve the return profile of a risk-based portfolio.
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VideoIntroduction to the Neuberger Berman Tactical Macro Fund
(6:46) In this short video, Lead Portfolio Manager, Bob Surgent introduces the Neuberger Berman Tactical Macro Fund, highlighting some of the key characteristics he prioritizes for macro investing strategies.
