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Core Matters: How do assets perform in a maturing business cycle?
The record long expansion in US real GDP (37 quarters so far) and the gradual pickup in inflation have started raising concerns about the beginning of the end of the current cyclical upswing.
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Better Than A Benchmark: Grassroots Research
By going on the ground in emerging markets and talking to people in their homes, equity investors can develop research insights about long-term, powerful trends driven by environmental and social sustainability.
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The rate debate: Portfolio strategies for a rising-rate environment
Interest rates are on the rise in the United States and monetary policy is easing globally. Investors are searching for ways to cope.
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Strategic Relative Value: Q3 2018
A quarterly look at how macro events are driving relative value around the globe.
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The Changing Landscape of Fiduciary Management
A frequently heard criticism of the pension industry is that change, if it happens at all, takes place at a glacial pace. While this might be fair some- times, it certainly can’t be said of the changes currently taking place in the fiduciary management and investment landscape in the UK.
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Emerging or submerging? For investors, that is the question
The world is not just changing, it is being reinvented. Shanghai perhaps, is the epitome of the transformation that we are witnessing. The Bund and its stunning art deco architecture are still there, but across the river, the old fishing village of Pudong has been turned into a forest of magnificent skyscrapers. It is China’s hypermodern interpretation of a 21st century Manhattan.
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Expect the bumpy ride to continue
Investors have been buffeted by a large number of negative headlines in 2018. We remain of the view that tightening global liquidity conditions are likely to exacerbate market volatility.
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Small caps in emerging markets can diversify and balance a portfolio
Investing in small companies in emerging markets offers exposure to many of the fastest-growing businesses in rapidly growing economies. The market is vast and varied, made up of some 20,280 companies boasting a total market capitalisation of more than US$5.2 trillion and daily turnover of more than US$38 billion1. As a result, this under-researched and often misunderstood asset class can help to diversify an institutional investor’s emerging markets portfolio.
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DWS – A new era for an established UK partner
Q&A with Maria Ryan, Head of UK and Head of UK Global Client Group, DWS
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Emerging Market Expertise: Understanding Local Nuances
The decline of emerging market equities from peaks earlier this year may mean lower share prices, but the premise for investing in emerging markets remains.
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Outlook: The Global Emerging Markets Asset Class
2018 has been challenging for investors in Global Emerging Markets (GEM), with rising volatility in Forex, debt and equity prices causing negative returns. As the year has progressed, several themes have increasingly influenced sentiment and momentum.
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Identifying Opportunities Through the Emerging Markets Continuum
A holistic approach, to information sharing and analysis, flips the script on emerging market investment strategies
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Cash Equitization with E-mini Equity Index Futures
Take a look at how CME E-mini Equity Index futures are used to equitize cash in portfolios, including avoiding drag on performance and more.
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UK equities: Mid-year Review
While UK equities had a more volatile first quarter, sterling weakness helped the FTSE 100 outperform the broader market.
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European equities: Mid-year Review
Political risk in Europe bubbled up once more this year, with uncertainty in Italy and Germany.
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US equities: Mid-year Review
The US entered the year on a high, but markets were unsettled by President Trump’s bout of protectionism in announcing an initial $50 billion of tariffs.
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Asian equities: Mid-year Review
There was a correction across Asia Pacific ex Japan in the first half of the year, says Soo Nam Ng, despite solid economic growth.
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Fixed income: Mid-year Review
Fixed income has had a challenging year to date, with bond yields driven higher by expectations around the Fed tightening rates and the prospect of QT in Europe.
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Japan: Mid-year Review
Despite the Japanese economy contracting in Q1 2018, following eight consecutive quarters of growth, the Nikkei started the year very strongly.
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Emerging markets: Mid-year Review
Early euphoria has slowly evaporated in an eventful six months which has taken in trade wars and political uncertainty in Mexico and Brazil.