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White papersESG Thema #21 - From access to empowerment: how financial inclusion fuels resilience
Financial inclusion spans savings, credit, payment services, insurance, and investments. Many low-income households and small businesses, particularly in developing countries, remain excluded or underbanked, relying mainly on cash transactions that expose them to risks and hinder their saving and investing activities. Credit access is often limited or costly, pushing many to informal lenders or expensive formal options. Digital finance—financial services delivered via mobile and internet platforms—is central to expanding access.
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White papersHow can investors lean into blended finance structures: demystifying credit enhancements
Blended finance structures are key to deploying catalytic capital coming from public, philanthropic, and private sector sources. The combination of the three allow for investors to pool essential capital meeting sustainable or development financing needs (e.g., SDGs, NDCs) in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs).
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White papersLessons from First Brands and Tricolor
While idiosyncratic issues seem to have driven these recent corporate failures, they serve as a reminder of the importance of credit risk as the cycle matures.
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White papersRebalancing Risk, Repositioning for Opportunities
After a couple of remarkably resilient quarters for the global economy and markets, the Asset Allocation Committee (AAC) maintains confidence in its overall medium-term outlook for growth and risk assets in parallel with applying more targeted exposure across asset classes and regions.
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White papersEuro credit sectors offer opportunities despite market volatility
Despite facing multiple episodes of volatility in recent years, the euro credit market has demonstrated notable resilience, consistently delivering solid returns to investors.
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White papersCapital Market Assumptions
Why a new economic regime calls for a reassessment of risk and rewards
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White papersRelative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation – Q4 2025
Turbulence in growth resulting from U.S. policy vacillations continues to drive expectations for global activity and inflation risks. Although initial tariff announcements resulted in a significant equity market downturn and a surge in volatility, financial markets have recovered and rallied. However, the tariff impact on data is likely to lag survey and other data, suggesting that we are unlikely to see a significant acceleration in economic activity anytime soon.
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White papersAI: Boom? Bust? Or Both?
Amid the AI frenzy are some early signs of the technology’s positive impact on productivity, raising profound implications for growth, inflation, labor markets, and asset prices.
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White papersJapanese dividends: The trend is your friend
Dividends in Japan have been growing in the past decade, and the trend is accelerating. Carl Vine, Co-Head of Asia Pacific Equities, explains why dividend growth is a compelling element of the Japan “reform” story – and why he believes the trend is set to continue.
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White papersLots of game left as we enter the fourth quarter
Bond markets have been in ‘white out’ mode recently.
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White papersMarket Snapshot: Japanese stocks rally on election result
Market Snapshot is a weekly view from our portfolio managers, offering sharp, thematic insights into the trends shaping markets right now.
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White papersA good quarter for rates and spreads as the bond market inches along
The Fed does what it must and the everything rally resumes.
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White papersWhat do we know about retail responsible investors?
The Amundi Investment Institute, in partnership with Crédit Agricole du Languedoc, the University of Montpellier, and Montpellier Business School (MBS), has forged a unique collaboration dedicated to advancing our understanding of individual investors’ financial preferences and needs. This partnership combines academic rigor with practical insights from the financial industry, creating a rich foundation for exploring the evolving landscape of retail investment behavior.
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White papersSDG Engagement High Yield Credit, H1 2025
In our latest report, the SDG Engagement High Yield Credit team provide an overview of how engagement has driven change in the first six months of the year.
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White papersSpectrum: A quiet revolution
Innovation and evolution are at the heart of our MDT quant strategies. Our latest Spectrum report examines how the team uses machine learning, novel factors and decision trees to gain an edge.
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White papersJapanese markets await clarity on leadership
Japanese equities hit a new record in October following the election of pro-business Sanae Takaichi as the leader of Japan’s ruling political party (LDP). However, the dust hasn’t fully settled as the long-term coalition between LDP and its partner Komeito broke down on Friday. Markets were expecting that if confirmed as PM, Takaichi’s policies to increase government spending could boost the country’s economic growth. On the other hand, the yen weakened on worries that the push for higher spending could negatively affect the government’s financial situation.
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White papersAI In Investment Management: The Advancement Of Learning
At Amundi, we have previously explored NLP approaches but were disappointed by their instability - small changes in input words or word order often led to significant shifts in interpretation.
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White papersHow China’s anti-involution policy is rewiring global green tech
China is taking aim at one of its most persistent economic ailments: involution. Originally rooted in anthropology, the concept now underpins a sweeping policy shift aimed at curbing hyper-competitive, self-defeating dynamics in sectors like solar, lithium batteries and electric vehicles. Beijing’s campaign to curb margin-eroding competition is reshaping the risk-reward profile of China’s clean tech sectors, and sending signals global investors can’t afford to ignore.
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White papersU.S. equities: A constructive setup for 2026
With rate cuts likely in a non-recessionary environment and strong tech momentum, U.S. equity markets appear well-positioned for further gains into 2026.
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White papersFive forces that could stimulate the US economy
The US economy has demonstrated surprising resilience in the six months since President Trump unveiled a long list of tariffs against virtually every trading partner. In the aftermath of “Liberation Day,” fears of an imminent recession have eased as investors have started to envision a future without a tariff-induced trade war.
