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How will the physical risks of climate change affect investments?
Our new analysis can quantify the physical impact climate change has on companies around the world. The costs could be considerable.
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Why investors need to keep their balance
Investors seeking particular long-term outcomes need to achieve and – just as importantly – retain healthy long-term returns.
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China Assets hit by trade talks: what expect from now
The US-China relationship appears to be deteriorating. US recently published a list of an additional $200bn of Chinese products subject to 10% tariff rates that will be put forward for the public hearing process by 30 August and could possibly be implemented in September.
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Pacte Law: what changes lie ahead for savings in France
The Pacte Law, presented on June 18, 2018 at the French Council of Ministers, should come into force no later than January 2020, after a period of parliamentary debates and the publication of implementing decrees.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy: July 2018
Since the beginning of the year, emerging market risky assets have become more volatile.
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Schemes need a clear strategy for managing longevity risk
Increasing longevity is an important risk facing the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes. By offering a promise for life to members, they bear the risk that members live longer than expected.
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CIO Insights: Key investment convictions for the short and long term
Long-term investing is about the belief that fundamental value exists and that asset class returns tend to mean revert to their equilibrium level and rotate around it, within regimes.
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Tackling financial exclusion through the financial markets
We have never lived in a more interconnected society. We can communicate with friends and colleagues on the other side of the planet in the blink of an eye, and have more access to more information than ever before.
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Protectionism intensifies: country and sector selection to mitigate its effects
As a base case, we expect limited tariffs will be implemented on different fronts with relatively controlled macro impacts while talks continue. Although talks have become more contentious, we do still see space for negotiation among the various parties. This is the main difference vs a proper “trade war”.
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In Credit: World Cup Blues?
The phenomenon of rising nationalism, including trade war rhetoric, continues to weigh on risk markets and provides an anchor to core government bond yields.
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Adopting an LDI approach throughout the investment chain: Lesson learnt from European insurers
The insurance business model is fundamentally based on underwriting and managing risks: insurance companies are contractually bound to meet specific obligations and as such structurally driven by liabilities.
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Impact Investing and Social Infrastructure
This paper will discuss how investing in social infrastructure in Europe can lead to positive impact-based outcomes for communities and the environment.
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Euro Investment Grade Credit: A Growing, Diversifying, High-Quality Market
The financial crisis and subsequent regulation has ended the dominance of financials in euro corporate bonds.
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Are Global Investors Ready for China?
China onshore stocks and bonds account for around less than 2% of most foreign investors’ portfolios. But this will soon change.
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Global Investment Views: July 2018
Investors have experienced generally low returns so far this year, due to the clouds currently gathering on the horizon, and the approach to risk assets is being characterised by increased caution.
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Portfolio allocation with skewness risk: a practical guide
In this article, we show how to take into account skewness risk in portfolio allocation.
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The FED leans hawkish and short rates move higher
While the Fed under Chair Yellen acknowledged global risks in early 2016 as a contributing factor in its decision to defer rate increases, it is unclear whether global factors would exert as significant an impact on the current FOMC.
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Emerging Market Debt: The Hidden Potential of an Under-Explored Asset Class
Over the last three decades emerging market debt has evolved into fixed-income’s most dynamic asset class. No longer the exotic terrain of specialist investors, emerging markets boast highly liquid, local-currency sovereign and corporate bonds as well as hard-currency ones.
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Corporate bonds: why investors' knee-jerk reaction to rising interest rates could be wrong
As investors face the prospect of the near-40 year bull market in bonds coming to an end, many are questioning the role of bonds in their portfolios.
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Where is the value in value investing?
The past decade has been marked by several unique features that have turned the value style of investing on its head. We believe this abnormal trend is coming to an end.