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White papersPost liftoff investing: Adapting to a hawkish Fed
For more than a decade, investors have enjoyed supportive financial conditions. The Federal Reserve (Fed) has provided clear forward guidance, their balance sheet has expanded, and interest rates have remained low. For businesses, this has been an era of easy money for new projects, expansion, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). For everyday individuals, rates on mortgages and personal loans have been attractive, boosting home prices and debt levels. All in all, this has driven a long period of steady economic growth and healthy returns.
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White papers15-16 March FOMC review: we have full throttle lift off
On 16 March, the Federal Reserve hiked the fed funds rate by 25bp, to 0.25-0.50%, the first rate hike in four years. The Fed decision was widely expected and probably the most telegraphed rate hike in recent memory. However, the meeting’s statement and accompanying SEP offered some hawkish surprises.
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White papersFed Ready to Tighten the Screws on Inflation
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points this week. The central bank also signaled that it’s likely to keep raising rates at every meeting well into the second half of the year, and made it clear that it will start paring its balance sheet soon.
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White papersThe Fed to Markets: We Got This
The Federal Reserve’s announcement at the end of its FOMC meeting on March 16, 2022 surprised on the hawkish side, with the updated projections for the Fed funds rate signaling that it is “all in” on the fight against inflation.
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White papersFixed Income Amid Inflation
What does the current inflationary environment mean for multi-sector fixed income portfolios?
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White papersUpcoming: Principal Speaker Series – A conversation with Dr. Lawrence H. Summers
Join us as we welcome Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, immediately following the pivotal March FOMC meeting. Seema Shah, Managing Director, Chief Global Strategist at Principal Global Investors, will host a timely and engaging conversation on the state of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve’s response, and how investors can prepare for the volatile period ahead.
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White papersValue Can Potentially Outperform Even if Growth Slows
We believe value is likely to outperform growth over the coming years—and threats to economic growth from inflation, rate hikes and geopolitical risks do not change our view.
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Asset Manager NewsPGIM Real Estate closes 3 key deals for more than $222M in core plus lending
NEWARK, N.J., March 11, 2022 – PGIM Real Estate has provided more than $222 million in core plus financing on behalf of two investors. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment and financing business of PGIM, the $1.5 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
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White papersShort Duration High Yield: Replacing Rates Risk With Credit Risk
Short-duration high yield could be an under-explored option for investors who need current income to meet short-term liabilities, but cannot afford the interest rate risk that would accompany a search for yield in longer-dated bonds.
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White papersBack to Basics: Commodities and Radical Uncertainty
When facing uncertainty in the markets, we find it helpful to frame our thinking within the four quadrants made popular by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns.
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White papersRising Rates - REITS poised to perform well
As is the case with most income-oriented stocks, REITs are typically hit hard when central banks begin talks of raising interest rates. This is due to investors views on how the higher interest rates will impact a REIT’s cost of capital.
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Asset Manager NewsGTIS Partners Closes on Build-to-Rent Project in Tampa
GTIS Partners LP (“GTIS”), a real estate investment firm that manages over $4.3 billion in gross assets with a focus on residential and industrial investments, today announced its closing on River Landing, a 72-acre site that will be developed into an approximately 260-unit build-to-rent (“BTR”) community.
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White papersAn Equity Outlook: Are Stocks the Biggest Real Asset Out There?
It may be easy to take a bearish stance on equities today, but there’s a case for stocks to generate positive real returns on a strategic basis going forward. High household equity allocations may actually be warranted, elevated valuations don’t necessarily spell doom, populist pressures on earnings growth are surmountable and falling correlations within the equity market create more “potential energy” for active management to add alpha.
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White papersInvesting in natural capital
Investments in sustainably managed timberland and farmland can play a vital role in improving the world’s natural capital while allowing investors to benefit from long-term global trends that will help them achieve their investment objectives.
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Asset Manager NewsDeka Immobilien makes its first investment in Seattle
Deka Immobilien started the New Year by making its largest single acquisition, outside of Germany to date, in the US. The company acquired the Google campus “Lakefront Blocks 25 & 31” in the South Lake Union neighbourhood of Seattle for USD 802 Mio.
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White papersThe Supply-Led Inflation Challenge
The Fed could end up playing checkers while the economy is playing chess—with potentially worldwide consequences.
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Asset Manager NewsGTIS Partners Raises $630 Million Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund
GTIS Partners (“GTIS”), a real assets investment firm that manages $4.3 billion in gross assets with a US focus on residential and industrial logistics investments, announced today that it has raised $630 million for its GTIS Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund I (the “Fund”).
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White papersThe journey back to zero real rates
Real interest rates in the US and Europe have reached negative levels that are unprecedented in recent history. We have to go back to the 1970s to find similar levels, and only a handful of past examples since WWII can be used as reference points.
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White papersBentallGreenOak’s 2022 Perspective on the U.S
Our outlook for the year ahead is heavily influenced by three key themes: the decline of the pandemic and resultant economic expansion; digitization and technological disruption; and demographics, labor, and housing affordability.
