All United States articles – Page 13
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White papersIt’s Hard to Relax
It’s time for a well-deserved, late-summer breather, yet geopolitical tensions continue to mount. The dog days of summer are a time for slowing down, letting go and recharging. With any luck, equity markets will comply by staying relatively calm. Yet amid all the uncertainty and rising geopolitical tension, we understand if it feels hard to kick back and relax.
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White papersU.S. Bank Update Amid an Economic Turn
More than one year after the banking panic of early 2023, we reflect on the sector’s investment portfolios, liquidity, and profitability conditions.
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White papers2024 U.S. Affordable Housing Impact Report
At Nuveen Real Estate, we recognise that the shortage of affordable housing options is a prevalent issue and significant market opportunity. We are committed to investing to preserve affordability, improve housing quality and sustainability, and enhance resident well-being in assets across the globe with dedicated affordable housing impact investments in the U.S.
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PodcastThe growth of US Data Centres and the implications for power demand
Join Varun Sablok, Director, Igneo North America and Dan Watts, CEO, US Signal as they discuss Igneo’s first North American Infrastructure Technology related investment: US Signal.
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White papersTier One Interview: Susan Kasser
In conversation with Jay Judas, CEO of Life Insurance Strategies Group, Susan Kasser, Head of Private Debt, discusses the ins and outs of private debt, why PPLI and private debt pair well together, and more.
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People NewsAdam Hines Promoted to Senior Managing Director, Joins the Firm’s Office of the CEO
Hines, the global real estate investment manager, announced today that Adam Hines, a grandson of the founder, has been promoted to senior managing director and will serve as chief of staff within the firm’s Office of the CEO. He will report to Co-CEOs Jeff Hines and Laura Hines-Pierce in this newly created role.
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People NewsHeitman Appoints Head of Global Sales in Client Service and Marketing Group
Heitman announced today the appointment of John Mancuso as Managing Director and Head of Global Sales in the firm’s Client Service & Marketing group. John has been serving in this role as interim head since June 2023 and will continue his responsibilities leading Heitman’s global sales initiatives. Based in Denver, he will report to Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Client Service & Marketing, Lewis Ingall.
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White papersMaking sense of market volatility
Global markets have been whipsawed by a series of sharp blows in the last few days, mainly centering around concerns about the health of the U.S. economy. Our view remains that the strength of household and corporate balance sheets implies recession is unlikely, but we acknowledge that risks are building. To help decipher and contextualize the current market reaction, Chief Global Strategist, Seema Shah, and Equities Chief Investment Officer, George Maris, provided some clarity into the current situation and their expectations for the remainder of 2024.
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White papersInnovation, Conflict and a Mysterious Disappearance
This year’s recommendation for vacation reading is a fascinating page-turner about one of the early 20th century’s most influential inventors. With the calendar turning to August, it’s the time of year when many market participants will be seeking the opportunity to take a vacation, enjoy the Olympics and generally get a break from the relentless headlines.
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PodcastElections, Equities and the Economy
With the election season well underway, the nation finds itself at the crossroads of significant political and potential economic uncertainty. How will each candidate impact the economy, specifically equity markets? And what can investors do to prepare?
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White papersUS economy worries pummel markets
Global stocks fell sharply at the start of the week, with Japan’s benchmark Topix index on Aug. 5 suffering its biggest one-day drop in more than three decades. European shares and U.S. stock futures also declined. Meanwhile Emerging Markets stock indices, mostly in Asia (Taiwan and South Korea), fell into the red and currencies that had benefited from high carry trades funded by the yen, such as those in Latin America, lost ground.
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White papersU.S. Real Estate: Ready, Set, Go
Against a backdrop of reduced values, resilient fundamentals, and the prospect of lower financing costs, potential opportunities are emerging across the U.S. real estate market. But given the uncertainties remaining, caution remains key.
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White papersReimagining Cities: Balancing Debt, Demographics and Dreams
Many cities are highly indebted as they face mounting challenges. Meanwhile, developing world cities often lack institutions for collecting tax revenues. With their importance growing, cities must square the circle between creating thriving economies and meeting society’s needs. It’s a time for strategies that tackle key issues such as affordable housing, climate change and crime.
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White papersHigh yield: It’s the yield that matters
Despite the focus on credit spreads, yield has proven to be a more reliable indicator of high yield market attractiveness. With a strong correlation between starting yield and five-year forward returns, and a historically high-yielding environment coupled with low projected default rates, the high yield asset class is well-positioned to potentially deliver attractive long-term returns.
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White papersExploring US Single-Family Rental Demographics
Despite being an historically important part of the US housing market, single-family rentals (SFRs) with institutional ownership are a relatively new phenomenon, coming onto the scene in a meaningful way only in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Initially, large institutional investors amassed portfolios by taking advantage of the surplus of foreclosed properties available at auction.
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White papersPutting Put-Writing Into Perspective
When equities sputter, market volatility simmers and interest rates remain elevated, we believe underwriting market risk—by writing puts on the S&P 500 Index—can be a capital-efficient strategy for investors seeking to generate a diversified source of income in an uncertain economic environment.
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White papersA Change in Leadership?
As Biden withdraws, we are seeing an historic rotation into small-cap stocks and a growing opinion-polling lead for Donald Trump—are the two things related? “What I write here on Friday could be out-of-date by the time you are reading it on Monday,” said Joe Amato, in last week’s commentary on the rise in political volatility.
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White papersA Soft Landing Is Still a Landing
What do slowing growth, lower inflation, tight credit spreads and a steepening yield curve mean for our fixed income views for the rest of the year? If the big story of the moment in equities is the epic rotation out of mega-cap stocks and into smaller companies, the equivalent in fixed income is the ongoing, sharp unwind of a record-breaking U.S. yield curve inversion.
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White papersA Framework for Value Investing
As providers of an active value strategy, our team has built an investment framework through study and experience that we believe can lead to persistent outperformance. In this memo we outline this investment process based on a compilation of insights published by our investment team.
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White papersWhy We Believe Quality Is a Good Guide for Value Investing
Value investing involves picking stocks that are trading at attractive prices as determined by metrics such as price book and price earnings. Clients sometimes ask us why Breton Hill takes a quality approach to value investing when so many of our peers are focused on distressed value. In this note we review the history of applying quality to value investing in an effort to improve outcomes. We then conduct an out-of-sample analysis to assess whether this effect still holds in the more recent decade subsequent to the publication of well-known quality papers.
