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Solving the plastic pollution problem
Plastic and packaging pollution is one of the most pressing global environmental threats and has become a material issue for investors. Only 14% of estimated plastic packaging is recycled globally. Of the remainder, around 14% is incinerated, 40% is landfilled, and 32% is ‘leaked’ to the environment.
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Revisiting The Global High Yield Outlook In The Wake Of The Covid-19 Pandemic
Global HY markets sold off aggressively between February and March in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the oil price war and the liquidity freeze in some markets. An analysis of past peak-and-trough episodes in the US HY market shows that on most occasions investors have enjoyed positive market returns just one year after the peak. Three years past such a peak, market returns have proven positive in all six occurrences since 2000.
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Size matters: Will COVID-19 lead to a concentration of corporate power?
The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could see large firms cement their dominance over weaker rivals. We examine the implications for investors.
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EM Equity: A Return to Fundamentals, but a Long Road Ahead
Conrad Saldanha, Neuberger Berman Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Manager, discusses April’s EM equity market rally and the impact of falling oil prices on EM economies.
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Perspective on Private Credit
Listen to David Lyon as he discusses the current dislocation in the credit markets and the types of investment opportunities that may emerge as a result.
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US Macro Outlook: Let’s Bend The Economic Growth Curve
Three recovery scenarios? Franklin Templeton Fixed Income discusses the implications for growth, employment, and investment.
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Unlocking the potential of environmental investments
There is a way for investors to both safeguard the environment and simultaneously secure an attractive return.
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Measuring the business world’s environmental footprint
The idea of “ethical” or “green” investing has gained ground in recent years, but it is hampered by a lack of quantitative definitions.
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Navigating the uncharted: How can private equity investors respond to the COVID-19 crisis?
Private equity investors are in uncharted territory, but history can offer some lessons that may prove a useful guide in deciding the most prudent next steps.
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Fast Retailing case study
Fast Retailing has made significant improvements in managing human rights risks in its supply chain and on other sustainability risks following investor engagement. This case study details how EOS has engaged with the company since 2016 on the challenges the company is facing as a casual clothing retailer.
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Market weekly – Time to add risk in multi-asset portfolios?
Senior investment strategist Daniel Morris and Denis Panel, Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Asset and quantitative solutions team (MAQS), discuss the challenges to asset allocation in this volatile and uncertain market environment.
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Plotting the path to recovery: V, L or Nike swoosh?
The market sell-off and spike in volatility have left investors reeling. While history doesn’t always repeat itself, it often rhymes and a closer look at the data indicates there are lessons we can learn from previous drawdowns.
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Opportunity in Credit Dislocation
Michael Holmberg and John Humphrey provide an update on the credit market dislocations resulting from the crisis, what is causing concern in the market and how to find the opportunities that are emerging.
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Investing in a post-crisis world
The ongoing crisis has thrown investors’ plans into turmoil. Long-term portfolio return expectations have changed and investors may need to think beyond traditional asset classes to generate the income they need. Hear from Nuveen’s Global Investment Committee on where they are finding opportunities and how best to position portfolios during, and after, the crisis.
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Taking the Bite Out of High Yield’s Tail Risk
A new buyer has arrived on the scene of U.S. high yield markets, and it happens to be the biggest buyer of them all: the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Podcast: Disruptive Forces in Investing
Welcome to Disruptive Forces in Investing, a podcast series featuring Neuberger Berman’s seasoned investors who discuss trends that are transforming the investment industry and beyond.
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The impact of COVID-19 on global high yield
As an increasing number of companies battle the economic consequences of COVID-19, their ability to service bond payments is coming under intense scrutiny. In this Q&A, Sunita Kara considers whether current high-yield valuations adequately compensate investors for default risk and looks at the broader implications of the pandemic.
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Five portfolio construction themes for—and after—the global pandemic
At the end of 2019, we titled our year-ahead outlook, “20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth.” That was then. Markets have since been thrown into turmoil, and investors are grappling with positioning their portfolios to minimize the damage from the coronavirus-induced crisis and take advantage of an eventual recovery.
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10 (mostly new) predictions for 2020: A light at the end of a very long tunnel
We launched our original set of 2020 predictions a few months ago with the theme, “Uncertainties diminish, but markets struggle.” The coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic and market upheaval have since changed everything. In early March, consensus expectations for 2020 global GDP growth were +3%. Now they are -3%.1 A 6% swing would be unusual over a three-year time period. We just saw one in a month.
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Multi-Asset Allocation Views: global recession prompts “whatever it takes” response
We have seen a robust global central bank policy response that, in its breadth and scale, is larger than all the stimulus programs seen during the 2008 global financial crisis. Events and timelines have been compressed in this crisis. Unsurprisingly, it seems to be having the desired effect of lessening the threat of bankruptcy and the associated level of job losses. It is also stabilizing financial markets.