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Emerging Markets Insights: From BRICS to BRICS+
BRICS expansion: The BRICS summit in South Africa in August announced the expansion of the group to include potentially six new members in early 2024.
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Navigating by Flashes of Lightning
Central banks may be reluctant to hike further, but as long as they tie themselves to incoming data their hands may be forced.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Read more on how the satellite industry has the opportunity to support over five billion cell phones worldwide, enabling text and voice capabilities without the need for cellular networks.
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Integrating Climate Risk Into an Insurer’s Strategic Asset Allocation
Is your strategic asset allocation process missing climate risks—and foregoing climate opportunities?
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Is the U.S. Economy Meaningfully Reaccelerating?
In this monthly series, we take a quick, comprehensive look at current macroeconomic themes that matter to clients.
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CIO views: ideas for ‘back-to-school’ returns
As Q3 progresses and many children return to classrooms after the holidays, our CIOs present their ‘back-to-school’ investment outlooks. Even as long-term investment trends continue to play out – the environmental transition, higher-for-longer interest rates, a greater cost of capital and demographic change – there is client demand for performance in the shorter term. What tactical exposures can investors implement to improve returns in the next six months?
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Local currency EMD – Why it might be time to reconsider an active allocation
An allocation to emerging market debt (EMD) can offer investors a range of potential benefits in the context of their broader portfolios – not least its low correlation with other sub-asset classes of fixed income. The growth dynamics and strengthening economic fundamentals of many emerging market (EM) countries are attractive to investors seeking growth, income and diversification.
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Beyond renewables: What’s next in greenhouse gas reduction?
In recent years, energy transition has become one of the most important investment themes across asset classes. Under the broad spectrum of energy transition investments, technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels and energy storage tend to attract the most attention, yet those are only a small piece of the decarbonization puzzle.
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Emerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2022
The year 2022 proved a challenging one for international capital markets. For only the fifth time in the last 100 years, U.S. Treasuries and the S&P 500 both ended the year lower than where they started.
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Strike (Big) 3?
A potential U.S. auto strike has significant implications for the economy, earnings and inflation.
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Expect a Few Bumps, but No Accidents, in Auto ABS
In this paper, the Liquidity Solutions team defines benefits of holding asset-backed securities (ABS) in fixed-income portfolios and focuses on the attractive fundamentals of automotive sector ABS in today’s markets.
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GCC/MENA Bond Market Update: Fixed income markets remained volatile in August
Fixed income markets remained volatile in August. In the US, US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Powell spoke at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, reiterating the central bank’s data dependence but also highlighting that if the economy does not cool as expected further monetary policy tightening may be warranted.
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Eurozone commercial real estate reset creates opportunities for debt investors
The sharp rise in interest rates over the last year has lowered valuations and led buyers to demand higher yields when acquiring commercial property. Banks have increased their scrutiny and caution, reducing loan-to-value funding ratios. While there is still demand from borrowers, especially for refinancing maturing debt, the amount of debt offered by banks per square metre is lower. We believe this environment presents an attractive opportunity for investors.
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Private credit & private equity: Decision drivers for today’s markets
The private capital industry has seen a surge in popularity among investors seeking stability in the face of public market volatility, recession fears, and banking sector turmoil. Private capital not only provides the potential for attractive income and returns but also serves as a less correlated portfolio diversifier, generally with lower mark-to-market volatility than the public markets.
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The future of private credit
Private credit is now widely recognized as an alternative asset class that can deliver stable, uncorrelated returns for institutional investors.
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CLO equity: Where does it fit in investor allocations?
Choosing the right “bucket” for CLO equity is critical for investors seeking to optimize portfolio allocations
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Size matters for Arcmont and Churchill
In this latest Insight with Private Debt Investor, Arcmont and Churchill’s CEOs discuss their expanded expertise, global presence and how the combined $67 billion private capital platform will provide the size and scale for the two private debt managers to deliver new products and capabilities for its combined 600+ investor base across the globe.
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The whys and hows of impact investing
Impact strategies are becoming more commonplace as investors push for greater change through their investments. With many institutional investors, consultants and wealth managers looking to meet client demands for impact investing, we explore what it is and what it brings to a diversified portfolio.
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Is emerging market private equity the most effective way to invest for impact?
Kicking off a debate over how best to make meaningful change through investment, we explore private equity’s unmatched ability to deliver capital to the places it’s needed most.
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Equity markets frustrate both bulls and bears
Despite some wavering in May, global equity markets have generally remained resilient year-to-date. Most major indexes have held on to gains made in the first quarter of 2023, when markets overcame volatility driven by bank failures in the U.S. and Europe.