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White papersRedefining Dividend Dynamics for Equity Income Investors
Income-seeking equity investors don’t need to sacrifice growth to capture the power of dividends.
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White papersChina’s growth set to hit target in 2025
“Resilient China’s growth highlights the economy’s ongoing efforts to adjust trade partnerships and manage tariff-related challenges, keeping it on track to reach its growth target for 2025.”
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White papersEuropean Bonds – Still More to Give
Benign inflation, a dovish central bank and healthy yields have helped boost the global attraction of European government bond and credit markets. With further monetary easing expected, European fixed income continues to look selectively compelling.
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White papersCurtailment and Constraints: Understanding the Grid’s Role in Renewable Energy Integration
Rosheen McGuckian, CEO OF NTR, EU grid curtailment, how the industry is responding, and the major considerations for investors.
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White papersO’Connor Global Multi-Strategy Alpha Monthly Letter: Positioning beyond the US
In June, global markets navigated a complex web of economic and geopolitical developments, creating a striking paradox: rising trade barriers and the ensuing risk of rising inflation on the one hand, and record-high equity performance on the other. Despite these tensions, recent data reveal a resilience in market sentiment.
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White papersAnnual Stewardship Report 2024: Consistency and resilience through change
Consistency and resilience through change
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White papersGEMs ESG Materiality, H1 2025
In the latest issue, we provide an update on our voting and engagement activity over the last 12 months, while also shining the spotlight on our GEMs biodiversity risk framework.
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White papersThe strategic value of allocating to high yield
Financial markets have navigated an exceptionally turbulent period over the past five years. Severe shocks have included the global pandemic in 2020, aggressive rate hikes by central banks in 2022 and the imposition of tariffs in 2025. Despite these significant disruptions, the high-yield (HY) market has demonstrated remarkable resilience, emerging as the best-performing fixed income sector by a substantial margin.
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White papersSummertime…but will the Fed be easing?
With noise levels still high, certainty on policy remains elusive.
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White papersSigns of a growing deficit attention disorder
Short-term risk-on distractions should give way to long-term economic reality.
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White papersSouth Korean stocks soar on governance reform hopes
Revision to the Commercial Act is part of efforts to tackle the so-called ‘Korea Discount’.
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White papersEM in trade finance: unmet demand and alpha potential
Emerging markets provide an ideal investment environment for trade finance, connecting underserved areas with a vital source of alternative capital, while potentially offering investors a compelling mix of risk and return.
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White papersBond markets lean into income as growth moderates
As global trade tensions persist and economic growth moderates, fixed income markets face both challenges and opportunities. While tariff-related uncertainty continues to weigh on growth prospects, historically attractive yield levels across fixed income sectors offer compelling entry points for investors. The U.S. Federal Reserve and other global central banks are poised to implement rate cuts, creating a supportive environment for fixed income returns despite ongoing market volatility.
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White papersEuropean IG Credit: Opportunity in a Shifting Landscape
Appealing fundamentals, elevated yields and active management opportunities are drawing investors to European investment grade credit.
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White papersSolving for 2025: Mid-Year Scorecard
At the end of 2024, our CIOs sat down to discuss the five key themes they expected to impact markets. At mid-year, we assess how those have played out so far.
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White papersShifting Dynamics in the CRE Lending Market
We see an array of differentiated opportunities across the commercial real estate credit market.
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White papersWill Policy Clarity Spark a New Wave of Economic Growth?
While tariff uncertainty continues to linger, the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill provides business leaders with long-awaited policy clarity that may provide a boost to capital expenditure.
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White papersAsset Allocation Committee Outlook: 3Q 2025
That was a tumultuous quarter. Since April, the global economy and markets have faced the U.S. administration’s erratic tariff policy, broader trade tensions, fiscal concerns and flare-ups in geopolitical risk, all resulting in widespread volatility and economic uncertainty. And while many of these catalysts may ultimately have material economic and financial impacts, both macro data and risk markets have shown notable resilience, and “looked through” this uncertainty, a theme that we introduced in our last quarterly outlook.
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White papersCLOs: Navigating a Bifurcated Market
The CLO market remains well-supported, but caution is warranted as the path forward will likely be shaped by both macroeconomic forces and deal-specific characteristics.
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White papersKeeping it “Real”—The Case for Natural Resource Equities
Natural resource equities can provide inflation protection and portfolio diversification, making them a potentially compelling investment option in environments characterized by elevated inflation, heightened geopolitical risk, and increasing energy demand.
