White papersAI financing: Bubble, breakthrough or the next fixed income supercycle?
AI represents a major investment cycle with distinctive financial foundations. In this paper, fixed income portfolio manager Sandro Lazzarini and analyst Theo Pan compare current AI financing to previous cycles and ask whether it could represent the next supercycle for bonds.
White papersFrom silicon to steel: The credit consequences of technological upheaval
Technological disruption is reshaping credit markets but its impact varies significantly across sectors and issuers.
White papersAsia private equity: growth meets value creation
Asia is an increasingly important driver of the global economy, yet many investment portfolios have not kept pace. The region accounts for more than 60% of global growth, while structural shifts in consumption, technology, trade and corporate governance are changing where and how value is created.
White papersMaking the case for active at the core
While the active/passive debate continues to shape industry discussion, it no longer provides the best framework for understanding how investment portfolios should be constructed.
White papersEuropean Student Housing: From Structural Undersupply to Institutional Opportunity
For U.S. institutional investors, European purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) offers exposure to a familiar and proven living-sector asset class, at a materially earlier stage of institutional ownership and operating scale, particularly across Continental Europe. While the U.S. student housing market has developed sophisticated ownership and operating platforms over several decades, Continental Europe remains significantly less penetrated, with purpose-built accommodation representing approximately 15% of student demand versus 22% in the U.S.
White papersSting Remains in the Tail, Even as Debt Funding Gap is Getting Bridged
Higher interest rates are back in focus, as central banks have raised policy rates in response to inflation exceeding targets, amid elevated energy prices linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
White papersFrom geopolitical shocks to structural repricing
Geopolitical disruption is no longer episodic, the authors argue. As energy security, supply-chain resilience and reserve diversification reshape capital flows, investors face the challenge of identifying markets still pricing in stability.
White papersFive charts to consider if worried about rising rates
Bond yields have been rising again. While today’s environment may be inducing some flashbacks to 2022, investors should consider a broader historical context when facing a fresh period of rising rates.
White papersFinding opportunities amid higher rates, AI disruption, and market concentration
Investors today are being challenged from all sides. Interest rates remain elevated, policy uncertainty and geopolitical shocks are clouding the outlook, and artificial intelligence is reshaping markets while intensifying concentration risk. These aren’t abstract concerns or distant possibilities; they’re forces unfolding in real time, changing how investors assess risk and identify opportunities. Four investment leaders recently gathered in New York City to discuss what has changed, where risks may be mispriced, and how they are navigating a market that’s only growing more complex.
White papersRethinking emerging markets: Diversification and growth opportunities in equities and fixed income
Growing global uncertainty around company valuations, monetary policy and business cycles is prompting investors to rethink their asset-allocation strategies – and emerging markets (EM) may be well positioned to benefit. Across EM, a number of factors are combining to create potentially compelling diversification opportunities in both equities and fixed income.
