White papers - all assets – Page 198
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What Markets are Missing Beneath Brazil’s Messy Headlines
While a lot of things have gone wrong for Brazil, it is fair to say that the gap between market prices and economic fundamentals has gone too far.
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ESG: Three Challenges High Yield Managers are Tackling Today
From influencing company behavior to seeking better data disclosure, high yield managers are pushing the envelope when it comes to ESG.
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Allocation Views - April 2021
It is always necessary to search for the flaws in a well-argued investment thesis. Indeed, it is important to continually challenge your assumptions. However, sometimes it is right to just go with the flow, at least for a while. This is perhaps one of those times. The themes that drove markets in the first quarter of 2021 look set to continue into the current period.
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Speculative grade default cycle: an earlier peak and an expected benign trend
Extraordinary policy intervention has made this HY default cycle unusually short-lived, helping to limit quite significantly the rise in defaults among mid- and high-rated speculative grade companies. A turn into a more benign falling trend over the next quarters looks likely, in light of improved macro perspectives, expected progress in vaccinations and encouraging signals from financial drivers.
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These 3 laws drive innovation and investment opportunity
You’ve probably heard of Moore’s Law, the observation that semiconductors would get meaningfully faster and cheaper over time, improving computing power. But what about Flatley’s Law and Wright’s Law?
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Amid a US economic boom, how high can rates go?
The possibility of an economic boom this year has stoked worries about higher inflation and prompted a sharp selloff in US Treasuries.
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“The Best of All Possible Worlds!”
Clearer evidence is emerging that in most major economies the joint monetary, fiscal, and health policy response to the pandemic is proving faster, bigger, and better-targeted than we expected.
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Allocating to real and alternative assets: a framework for institution…
Institutional investors have significantly increased their allocation to real and alternative assets, such as private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt, over the past decade, with the objective of enhancing the return or the expected yield of their portfolio, as well as improving its diversification.
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Mind the rebalancing gap
The 12 months ending 31 March 2021 saw the largest positive divergence in returns between global equities and bonds in nearly 50 years.
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Biden’s infrastructure plan – A golden egg from the Easter bunny?
Valuations of clean energy stocks, as represented by the iShares Clean Energy index, (an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that we view as a proxy for the clean energy equity sector), are now up by around 16% from the lows in early March.
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Investing Beyond the Storm: A View from the MENA Region
An unprecedented blow from COVID-19 and low oil prices have accelerated the timeline for green energy in MENA economies.
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Sustainability in a World in Transition
We believe that 2020 marked an important turning point for companies and investors alike. Not only are sustainable criteria becoming ever-more important for investors, rapid societal and technological change is driving a corporate evolution. This is creating disruption across a number of key areas generating opportunities for active managers.
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Why investors should look at Indian assets
India is the fifth-largest economy in the world, according to the World Bank, in terms of nominal 2019 GDP in dollars, and ranks second by population (1.38bn). Although it is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, its GDP per capita is more than 29x and 4x lower than the USt or China, respectively (also according to the World Bank, nominal 2019 per-capita GDP in dollars). The potential for a catch-up in income over the next decades looks huge.
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Data Science Through the Crisis
Judicious use of data has provided key insights into the pandemic, the economy and businesses.
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Three Strategies for Navigating Turbulent Bond Markets
Today’s market environment taps into bond investors’ primal fears. Extremely low yields make it tough to find sufficient income and potential return. Economic growth is rebounding from its 2020 collapse, but the world’s grip on recovery is uncertain.
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Dollar: short-term bull, medium-term dull?
As the global economy recovers from its worst economic slump since the 1930s, any investment decision will hinge critically on the evolution of the dollar.
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Authenticity in ESG integration
From our 1983 inception, the international business of Federated Hermes has been at the forefront of responsible investing. Here, Michael Viehs, Head of ESG Integration, explains why the delivery of Sustainable Wealth Creation has and always will be our core purpose.
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Covid-19 Update: Emerging from a Pandemic rarely happens in a Straight Line
In an effort to bring timely insights during these uncertain times, we are pleased to share an update from Terri Towers, PhD, Senior Healthcare Analyst, who shares her views on the COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) pandemic.
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Diversify your allocation to corporate bonds with multi-factor investing
Over the past decade, multi-factor investing in corporate bonds has seen significant development. Easier access to better datasets along with an extensive body of research has enabled managers to move the dial significantly.
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Is factor investing still relevant today?
In 50 years of factor investing, there have been a series of love/hate phases with regard to the use of factors in selecting stocks for portfolios.