All Strategies articles – Page 2
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People NewsFlorian Grassl Joins The Investment Management Team At Dea Capital Real Estate Germany
Pan-European investment management company DeA Capital Real Estate is expanding its team in Germany and has now added experienced real estate specialist Florian Grassl as its Director of Investment Management. Florian Grassl’s experience at German and international real estate companies will help him broaden the company’s pan-European strategy, and he will be responsible for expanding DeA Capital Real Estate’s portfolio in Germany.
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White papers2025 Macro Outlook: Slower growth amid geopolitical uncertainty, but opportunities remain
Headwinds are blowing but conditions are supportive, so we see both risks and opportunities in 2025.
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WebinarWebinar Replay - What’s Your Alternative?
To examine institutional use of private market assets, PGIM and Institutional Investor’s Custom Research Lab partnered to survey more than 250 investment decision makers at institutions in Europe and the Middle East, representing approximately $10 trillion in assets under management. Private assets make up ~25% of current respondents holdings, but what does the future hold? We take a closer look at how allocators across EMEA are thinking about private alternatives.
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White papersReturn Predictability, Expectations, and Investments: Experimental Evidence
The empirical finance literature documents a puzzling phenomenon: investors tend to adjust their portfolios insufficiently in response to changes in their own forecasts of asset returns. This paper proposes an investment experiment with information treatments to better understand the mechanisms behind this puzzle.
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White papersVenture capital landscape
A closer look at key innovation hubs, Swiss Valley and Silicon Canals
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VideoWhat the U.S. Election Result Means for Emerging Markets
Chief Investment Officer Sean Taylor shares his insights on the challenges and opportunities for emerging markets under a Trump administration.
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PodcastBalancing Act: Economic Policy and National Security in a Fragmenting World
Mark Esper, former US Secretary of Defense; Michael Spence, Nobel Prize-winning economist; and Magdalena Polan, PGIM Fixed Income’s Head of EM Macroeconomic Research, discuss the global economy, how national defense is influencing economic policy, the geopolitical factors impacting trade flows and emerging markets, and whether the peace dividend is evaporating.
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White papersStrategic Value Dividend: Why now, why always
Dividends offer stability in times of uncertainty, but, as Dan Peris, Head of Income and Value Group, argues, the returns they generate make them a smart choice in any market.
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White papersToo risky to cover?
As extreme weather events increase in frequency and severity, insurance losses continue to mount. Some areas exposed to the worst climate risks are now seen as too risky to cover. Michael Yamoah, Navishka Pandit and Judi Tseng assess the implications.
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VideoDecades in the making: MDT Advisers
While the name might not be familiar, our ‘MDT’ franchise has a legacy spanning over 30 years. In this series of videos, Scott Conlon, Investment Director, Federated Hermes MDT Advisers, takes it back to basics: who is MDT and what makes this approach to quant investing stand out from the crowd?
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White papersThe Challenging Sustainable Investing Landscape
The incorporation of sustainability factors in investment decisions has become increasingly common in the portfolios of institutional investors over the past decade. This has been primarily driven by investors who may be focused on risk management, responding to new regulations, making investments that align with their values, or seeking to enhance long-term performance.
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White papersAddressing misconceptions with net-zero investing
The journey towards achieving carbon neutrality, or net zero, by 2050 is not only essential for our planet but also increasingly demanded by investors. Motivations for those seeking to align their portfolios with net-zero often vary — spanning financial, societal, and ethical domains — yet many investors hold a common set of misconceptions related to implementation.
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White papersReframing the climate question
How should an investor balance a focus on reducing their climate impact with a desire for financial returns? And how does a company management team accommodate what can often be seen as competing demands?
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White papersHuman capital: the unsung hero of the company valuation equation
Assessing the value of a company can be challenging. Typically, investors start by looking at its financial standing and records that reflect tangible investments, such as machinery purchases and building maintenance costs, to understand the company’s revenue, debt obligations and other expenses.
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White papersArtificial intelligence is everywhere
The capabilities of artificial intelligence are advancing with the investment focus expanding from computing power to include additional layers of the technologies used to build web or mobile applications. As a result, we are finding more opportunities to invest in stocks of companies that are leaders or beneficiaries of AI.
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White papersBudget 2024: public debt switch likely to increase LGPS scrutiny and focus investment time horizons
During yesterday’s Budget announcement the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, confirmed expectations that she will switch to measuring public debt using Public Sector Net Financial Liabilities (PSNFL).
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Asset Manager NewsHines Expands Asia Platform with New Value-Add Strategy
Hines, the global real estate investment, development, and property manager, today announced the intention to launch a diversified close-ended, value-add real estate strategy, to be known as Hines Asia Real Estate Partners (HAREP). HAREP intends to leverage economic and secular growth trends as well as Hines’ active management and operational excellence to achieve its objectives.
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Asset Manager NewsRetail’s Next Act: Could a right sized retail sector offer a compelling risk-adjusted opportunity for real estate investors?
Hines believes a transformed retail sector has emerged after years of turmoil. Investors may very well have missed that brick-and-mortar retail fundamentals have been performing surprisingly well. This, combined with robust job and wage growth, strong consumer sentiment and stabilizing global inflation levels are all signals that the fundamental turnaround in retail should continue.
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VideoCan China’s Economy Overcome Xi’s Stubbornness?
While recent policy adjustments signal progress, China Strategist Andy Rothman argues that Xi must further restore confidence among China’s entrepreneurs and consumers to unlock China’s growth potential. Will Xi overcome his stubbornness and make the necessary changes?
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VideoHas China’s luck changed?
Chinese stocks have rallied in recent weeks off the back of fresh stimulus measures announced by the Beijing government. Will the rally sustain? And how is the China Equity Strategy positioned to benefit? Sandy Pei, Senior Portfolio Manager, provides her view.
