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Tariffs on, rates up... risk off
Core government bonds were the beneficiaries in a week of ‘risk-off’ trading.
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Will Geopolitics Fuel Global Volatility?
Economic trends clearly point toward higher inflation and interest rates ahead, which will likely make capital markets more volatile.
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Can Investors Make Money in a US–China Trade War?
President Trump’s plans for tariffs on about $60 billion of Chinese imports have rattled equity markets.
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Setting objectives for your asset allocation
The objective of this paper is to describe how an investor can define a target return, split between that of Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and excess return derived from active portfolio management.
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Ten key questions on recent US protectionist measures
On March 22, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on around $50bln of Chinese imports (leaving Europe off for now) and China unveiled tariffs on $3bln of US imports. This adds to the measures announced on March 8, when US President Trump signed an order that imposes tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum (10%), effective on March 23.
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Science and Art: A Framework to Unlock Multi-Asset Opportunities
Strategic allocation poses big challenges today—and multi-asset portfolios can help.
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Chairman Powell’s Fed: A slightly hawkish tilt
The March FOMC meeting was the first under the new Fed Chairman Powell and the first meeting including projections by the new members of the Fed. What are your views on the outcome of this meeting?
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Economic Insights: February 2018
What happens after growth peaks? A bit of deceleration. When things are so good they can’t get any better, they usually don’t. Still, the robust momentum should carry well into 2019.
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Illiquidity and investment decisions: a survey
Investing in illiquid assets has become increasingly popular among individual and institutional investors. Illiquid assets provide higher returns and interesting diversification alternatives for asset managers.
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Global Macro Shifts: Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Global Macro Investing
The world of finance professionals has recently begun to attribute much greater and explicit importance to the environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions.
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How to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through savings and investments
With increasing interest from clients to know how asset managers can help them contribute to the UN SDGs, we take a closer look at some of the strategies that can be deployed to achieve this.
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Emerging Markets Are at the Forefront of a Changing World
Emerging markets (EMs) continued their rally and sustained strong outperformance compared to developed markets (DMs) in 2017. We believe this momentum will continue into 2018 despite potential economic and political headwinds in the year ahead.
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Shareholder Activism: Why Should Investors Care?
Institutional investors have large and diversified portfolios with substantial company ownership and strong incentives to monitor and influence the firm’s business. Active ownership is becoming a key component of their investment process.
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Is a pivotal change in the Chinese economy hiding in plain site?
With China’s economy quietly entering a new era, there has arguably never been a more exciting time to be a stockpicker in Asia.
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Colin Moore: Absence (of market volatility) made the heart grow fonder
Investors loved the markets while volatility was absent, but now it is back it should be a salutary reminder that it is part and parcel of investing.
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Daisuke Nomoto: Japan - more tailwinds than headwinds for 2018
With GDP on a sustained growth track, supported by structural reforms and the Bank of Japan’s accommodative monetary policy, we maintain a positive outlook for the region.
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Dara J. White: Emerging Markets Outlook for 2018
Emerging markets have previously performed well in periods of rising rates, so while the macro dynamics from the US and elsewhere could be seen as a threat, they shouldn’t necessarily blow EMs off course.
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Neil Robson: Technology and demographic trends in 2018
The pace of technological change is one of the key themes of recent years, and many believe it has now grown to such a point that many believe the sector is overvalued.
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Gerry Frewin: Generating a consistent income from bricks and mortar in 2018
The UK market has continued to benefit from sustained investor in-flows.
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In Credit: A journey beginning with a single step?
The long journey to policy normalisation in Europe began last week with a barely perceptible step.