All Strategies articles
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White papersHow is Generali Investments addressing longevity risk in insurance portfolios?
With rising life expectancies, individuals and institutions face the critical challenge of ensuring financial security over extended retirement periods. Generali Investments – the asset management arm of the Generali Group – explains how they are leveraging a variety of innovative investment approaches to address the complex issue of longevity risk.
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White papersRide the policy noise and shifts
A rewiring of the global economy is forcing investors and policymakers to proceed with caution. Such prudence is justified. There may be superficial parallels with the trade shock delivered by the pandemic, but limited lessons can be drawn from the temporary disruptions that occurred at the start of the decade. Today, the US administration’s approach to commerce, security and international relations is ushering in structural changes that will outlast its tenure.
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White papersPrivate diversification still attractive
“Private markets: infrastructure and private debt will likely continue to attract flows and may deliver performance. A bottoming process should gain traction for real estate and private equity over H2.”
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White papersThe impact advantage: a playbook for sustainable infrastructure investing
In an era of headwinds against generic sustainable investment strategies, infrastructure, and in particular impact in infrastructure, stands out as an investment approach that delivers stable financial returns and robust sustainable outcomes.
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White papersResilience amid uncertainty
PERE article: Optimism on residential strategies is little dented by tariffs
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White papersA climate-driven investment approach
Increasingly our clients around the world have taken a critical interest in climate change and the energy transition to a low carbon world.
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PodcastTalking Heads – Making the case for absolute return bonds
How can fixed income investors tackle the uncertainty over the outlook for growth and inflation? How will concerns about government finances play out ? Where are interest rates heading?
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PodcastThe End of US Exceptionalism?
Rick Brink: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this very first installment in our new AB series, Beyond Consensus: Thoughts from the Dismal Roundtable. My name is Rick Brink, Market Strategist within AB’s Client Group.
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White papersThe evolving world of real assets
Real assets have the potential to offer investors a lot in ‘green’ areas such as renewable energy, green mobility, circular economy, battery storage, hydrogen, and carbon capture. Head of Real Assets Karen Azoulay discusses the features and trends of this dynamic asset class.
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White papersTime for Europe
We are at an inflection point for Europe, signalling a promising medium-term outlook for the region, despite modest growth projections for 2025. Upcoming reforms, structural changes, and anticipated investments are expected to foster economic activity across Europe. The region stands at a pivotal moment, navigating a new defence paradigm and a fiscal push in Germany aimed at addressing the shortcomings identified in Draghi’s report.
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White papersAdapting to shifts in a dynamic market
Private credit: Investment opportunities and US consumer credit
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PodcastTalking Heads – Which long-term themes are set to drive global equity markets?
Amid market doubts over the US’s exceptionalism, where can investors seeking diversification turn? Is a ‘re-awakened’ Europe an alternative? In this edition, Nadia Grant, Head of Global Equities, shares her views and investment ideas with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.
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White papersA Framework for Structuring a Blended Finance Fund
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework for structuring blended finance funds, which are becoming increasingly important mechanisms for channeling private capital toward impactful projects in developing countries. The paper explores several key dimensions.
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VideoWho We Are
We specialize in markets and asset classes where we see opportunities to generate alpha through fundamental research, active management and access to our network of long-standing relationships.
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White papersLDI differentiator: the benefits of an integrated solution with credit
This mini-series of short articles shines a light on often under-discussed but important factors to think about when structuring your LDI portfolio framework. Here we look at the benefits of an integrated solution of LDI and credit.
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White papersMacro Monthly: The ‘Sell America’ trade and its limitations
Market narratives change fast. Entering 2025, most investors were all-in on US exceptionalism. President Trump’s tax cuts and de-regulatory agenda were expected to boost the US growth and earnings outlook, while tariffs would be disproportionately negative for the rest of the world. Investors came into the year overweight US stocks and the US dollar.
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White papersPatient investing in India: opportunities and challenges in a rapidly changing economy
Investment returns in the subcontinent have been primarily driven by India since she liberalised her economy in 1991. Investment into one of the earlier Indian indices would have yielded compounded annual returns of approximately 9% in US dollars, from December 1992 to end of March 2025. This compares very favourably with other global and emerging market indices over the same period.
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White papersHow Beta Investors Keep Alpha Under Control
Active ETFs are redefining the parameters of modern portfolio construction, offering solutions to the challenges faced by institutional investors. While it is easy to get lost in the rapidly expanding array of active ETFs, when investing in them European institutional investors have remained firmly anchored near core allocations around established benchmarks such as MSCI World and Europe.
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White papersAsset Allocation Update – May 2025
Headlines remain dominated by tariff discussions, and we have seen significant row back from the more extended and aggressive tariff levies that caused such distress in markets in early April. However, where there have been ‘deals’ the base line of a minimum tariff of 10% from the US remains in place, which suggests that while there is flexibility around the reciprocal tariffs, the tariff environment will still be substantially higher than in recent years.
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White papersReturning to the foundations of infrastructure investing
In recent decades, infrastructure investing has emerged as a preferred strategy for investors seeking long-term, stable returns. The growing recognition of the importance of infrastructure in the modern economy, combined with its intrinsically strong characteristics, has propelled infrastructure investments to the forefront of the private equity investment landscape. However, this popularity has, in some ways, diluted the original intent of infrastructure investing.
