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Private Capital: Four themes for ’24
2023 was characterized by several key themes in the capital markets: the U.S. Federal Reserve’s battle against inflation; the resulting impact on issuers of higher-for-longer interest rates; a much slower pace of merger and acquisition activity as buyers and sellers dealt with mounting borrowing costs, valuation discrepancies and choppier portfolio performance and the steady disintermediation of buyout financings from public to private credit.
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Global Investment Views - April 2024
A resilient US economy (owing to consumption and wealth effects) and strong earnings expectations for the year are driving the recent upside in equities and increase in yields. Now, the big questions are whether this can continue given the already strong market movements, and whether these earnings expectations are credible?
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Measuring energy: Losses and efficiencies with an electric silver lining
The US Energy Information Administration defines energy as follows: “Scientists define energy as the ability to do work. Modern civilization is possible because people have learned how to change energy from one form to another and then use it to do work. People use energy for a variety of things, such as to walk and bicycle, to move cars along roads and boats through water, to cook food on stoves, to make ice in freezers, to light our homes and offices, to manufacture products, and to send astronauts into space.”
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Nature and biodiversity: The importance of sustainable food systems
Biodiversity is essential to the ongoing survival of life on this planet. We need healthy ecosystems to provide us with air, food, water and more. Our nature and biodiversity insights series covers a range of topics that are central to solving the nature and biodiversity crisis, while highlighting the opportunities for investors to make positive contributions. In part one, Nishita Karad focuses on the importance of a sustainable food system.
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Great Expectations: Is engagement living up to its promise?
Is ‘engagement washing’ poised to be the next term maligning asset management’s ESG movement? Institutional investors often engage with companies they invest in to improve those companies’ environmental, social and governance practices – rivalling capital allocation as a core mechanism for achieving sustainable investment outcomes. But do engagement activities really deliver impactful, positive, real-world outcomes?
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Mind the (economic) gap: Infrastructure Debt 2024 Report
Nuveen’s Don Dimitrievich was recently featured in Infrastructure Investor’s 2024 Infrastructure Debt Report and shared his insights on how the Energy Infrastructure Credit team is providing flexible capital solutions and finding opportunities in the gaps in today’s high cost of capital environment.
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Private Credit Outlook: The Bright Side of Higher Rates
More clarity on interest rates means more clarity on the investment outlook and the opportunities across private markets.
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Central Bank Watch: Easing on the horizon
The Franklin Templeton Fixed Income (FTFI) Central Bank Watch is a qualitative assessment of the central banks for the Group of Ten (G10) nations plus two additional countries (China and South Korea).
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Does corruption perception matter to investors?
It’s not lost on any investor that nearly half the world’s population is set to participate in elections this year, with a select few anticipated to significantly alter a country’s trajectory. With this in mind, we ask, do corruption perception trends matter to investors?
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Q1 2024 CIO Review and Outlook
CIO Sean Taylor says macro uncertainty may moderate in the coming months, placing greater importance on active investing for generating alpha in emerging markets.
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Strong Tailwinds Keep Infrastructure Debt on Course
In this Q&A, Pieter Welman discusses what makes infrastructure debt attractive for investors, how the role of private credit in infrastructure is developing, and where he sees opportunities across the market.
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Engagement case study: Prudential
We have been engaging with Prudential since 2010 on a range of issues including board effectiveness, culture, risk management, sustainability strategy, and remuneration.
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Direct lending: the power of strategic alliances
In an increasingly competitive direct lending landscape, deal origination is critical to achieving consistent returns across the asset class.
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SDG Engagement Equity: 2023 Annual Report
In 2023, the SDG Engagement Equity Strategy had its second-best year in terms of overall return and its best year of relative performance.
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Engagement Plan 2024-2026: engagement priorities
With the release of the EOS Engagement Plan 2024-2026, in this video we explore four of our priority engagement themes.
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Politics and the investor
With more than a quarter of the world’s population going to the polls this year, we consider the investment implications of elections in India, Mexico, South Africa, the UK and the US.
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Six reasons to consider an unconstrained approach to credit
After two years in deep freeze, appetite for risk in fixed income has begun once more to flow. In this update, we identify six reasons why an unconstrained credit approach may make sense from here.
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Neuberger Berman Private Markets Q4 2023 Preliminary Valuation Summary and Analysis
Doug Manor, Managing Director, Neuberger Berman Private Markets, provides an overview of private equity markets and an outlook based on trends in the marketplace.
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Opportunity in the Undercapitalized World of Private Equity Secondaries
While an increasing volume of GP-led transactions is being brought to the market, there is an acute shortage of capital—providing an attractive and likely lasting opportunity for experienced investors.
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A Major Change in the Markets
Investors are now focused on growth more than inflation—what might that mean for portfolios?