All Strategies articles – Page 7
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Midyear Outlook 2024: the new reality of investing
2024 so far has been a year of diverging economies, equity market highs and election fever – with far more to come.
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Economic Monthly: Strength or Softness?
Consumers have still not run out of runway. Despite having burned through the famous “excess savings” from pandemic-era stimulus, and despite a softer labor market, we continue to see consumers willing and able to spend. As we elaborate below, continued credit availability, investment spending and the labor market provide enough space for households to maintain their spending habits for the next several months.
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Podcast
What Clients Want, What They Really Really Want: Secrets of Successful Client Relationships
In our inaugural episode, Karen is joined by AB’s Honor Solomon, CEO EMEA & Head of EMEA Retail Sales, who discusses her multifaceted role, emphasizing the importance of chemistry, contacts, and culture in building effective sales teams and client relationships.
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How Insurers Are Addressing Earlier Low-Rate Investments
Ken Griffin recently joined industry leaders on AM Best TV to discuss how insurers are managing assets amid shifting market dynamics and regulatory changes.
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The Importance of Active Ownership
Shareholder engagement is for life, not just for proxy-voting season.
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Absolute Return Overlays: The Power of Diversification on Returns
Expected returns on multi-asset portfolios may be improved materially with the implementation of a portable alpha overlay. Unlike other alternative allocations, portable alpha overlays can be implemented without changing underlying portfolio allocations and/or existing active managers.
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Investing in an Interconnected World: Cross-Industry Linkages
Capturing companies’ relationships and interconnections across industries in the course of the investment process can help identify new opportunities and limit portfolio risks.
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Why Quant For The Future
In the 1990s PGIM was among the earliest to explore quantitative investment techniques in response to our own clients’ shifting needs. Thirty years and many market cycles later, quants continue to leverage their unique strengths to help investors navigate their complex financial challenges.
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Industrial Policy’s Impact: Debt or Dividend
In a race to sharpen their competitive edge, nations are re-deploying industrial policy.
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Unlocking Alts: Opportunities in a New Investment Regime
The investment landscape remains uncertain. Interest rates have been stubbornly high, and central banks around the world appear to be moving cautiously before pivoting to a more accommodative policy stance. Economies around the globe are moving along divergent paths, underscored by resilient growth in the US that has outpaced many of its peers.
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2024 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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Alternative investments: Asset allocation strategies in a changing environment
Highlights from the “An asset allocation solution for public and private markets” session at the Asia Investment Conference 2024
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A core allocation to CTAs might be as wise as going tactical
Timing CTAs is notoriously challenging. We review the pros and cons of several allocation methods to CTAs.
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From stability to agility: nine implications for a new investment landscape
In the post-great moderation world, institutional investors are facing a radically new environment. The underlying assumptions that have driven many investment strategies over the last 40 years must be reexamined. This paper explores nine implications that can help empower investors with the agility needed to navigate the uncertainties of the new economic environment.
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Buyouts Keynote Interview: Motivated Sellers Create Buyers’ Market
In a keynote interview conducted by Buyouts, Tristram Perkins, Ben Perl, and Victor Ko discuss how liquidity challenges seem to be fueling secondaries dealflow, presenting compelling opportunities for buyers.
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Infrastructure debt in a sweet spot for 2024
Attractive risk-adjusted returns during uncertain times
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Income…with a Side of Growth Potential
We think today’s market landscape calls for a different mix in multi-asset income strategies.
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Uncovering the qualities that set compounders apart
Compounder companies (“compounders”) are those with highly visible and long-duration growth. Lindy’s Law explains an anti-ageing process for such companies — the longer they exist, the stronger they become to survive well into the future. This enables many to become industry leaders and dominant global players. We refer to these types of venerable companies as “marathon runners”. They form the bedrock of the returns we generate for our clients. It’s not just their age that sets these companies apart. It’s the combination of unique corporate culture and resilience that keeps them growing in good and bad times.
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Four Themes Emerging in Life Insurers’ Asset Allocations
Life insurers are continuing to move toward less liquid securities—which provide the potential for yield enhancement—while simultaneously de-risking from a credit perspective.
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Fixed Income Horizons Survey 2024
The Capital Group 2024 Fixed Income Horizons Survey captures the views of 100 UK asset owners, including pension funds, OCIO providers, insurers, endowments and foundations. The quantitative survey was conducted by CoreData Group during February and March 2024. This report also includes insights from a series of in-depth qualitative interviews with senior investment leaders at UK asset owners. The questions were focused on respondents’ asset allocation views and attitudes to different areas of fixed income markets.