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Will obesity become a curable disease?
An established class of diabetes drugs could hold the key to solving the obesity crisis. Their new use as an obesity treatment could be highly lucrative for the companies that produce the medicines, in our view. This also has the potential to reshape the healthcare industry.
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The UK’s trifle with inflation
Brandywine Global: With the Bank of England still struggling to contain inflation, we believe market expectations for additional near-term rate hikes have left gilts attractively valued relative to other G10 countries.
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Is it time for neutral equity exposures?
We have become used to a fast-paced cycle after 2020. The pandemic compressed the entire business cycle into just a few quarters, but also produced a much slower and persistent phenomenon: an inflation wave that, to date, remains a vivid concern for central banks and markets.
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Amundi Pension Funds Letter n°18
Every June, Amundi welcomes clients from around the world to its investment forum in Paris to discuss the new trends shaping investment. That the world has been approaching a critical juncture has been a stable topic of the past few years. But this year, the consensus was clear: We have embarked on a new era.
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Smart ESG model portfolios
Create custom, ESG-integrated strategies using objective impact data and advanced quantitative frameworks
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2022 Stewardship Annual Report
Read about how we embrace responsible, active ownership by engaging with investee companies and voting proxies, with the goal of maximizing long-term value of our clients’ assets.
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Nasdaq Rebalance Spotlights Risks from Supersized Set of Stocks
Even benchmark-makers are starting to address the supersized influence of heavyweight stocks. Nasdaq’s plan to reconfigure the weights of its constituents should prompt investors to think about the broader concentration risks in US equity markets, particularly in passive portfolios.
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Energy efficiency: Innovating in environmental solutions
Impact investors seek out companies providing innovative solutions for the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. This case study considers how one impactful company, Schneider Electric, aims to help reduce global emissions by creating innovative energy-efficiency solutions for buildings and industry.
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How cost-conscious buy and maintain strategies seek to avoid pitfalls in credit investment
Buy and maintain (B&M) strategies can have the same characteristics and potential benefits of traditional credit portfolios. They can provide the yield, spread over government bonds, income and potential returns from the bonds held, as well as the potential to fulfil investors responsible investment objectives.
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Climate Innovation and the New Capex Cycle
The backdrop for investing in climate innovation is at a critical inflection point
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Multi asset: taming of the skew
The return distributions for risk assets have taken on a positive asymmetry of late. This quarterly edition of Simply put asks what could trigger the normalisation of return asymmetry and what would the consequences be for risk-based investors?
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The Meaning Behind the Mean
The headline characteristics of today’s market obscure a wealth of opportunity, in both public and private markets.
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Tackling the climate emergency requires a socially just transition
The world is not equal under climate change, as both its impacts and the resources needed for mitigation and adaptation are distributed unequally. However, for active investors, capital markets could be a force for climate justice.
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Vision Pro: Fashionable Ski Goggles or Ironman’s Jarvis?
Read more on how revolutionary devices are set to redefine the way we interact with technology and lead us to a new era where spatial computing takes center stage.
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An introduction to private asset investing
How can investors navigate the private assets investment landscape? This brief overview – the first in a three-part series drawn from a recent paper – explains the main concepts, definitions and terms.
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Forging sustainable investments in European leveraged finance and CLOs: Part 1
In the past two years, the proportion of European assets under management with an ESG overlay (as measured by funds that are categorised as Article 8 and 9 under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, or SFDR) has risen to nearly 60%.
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Distressed Credit: Changing Tides
For over a decade now, a low interest rate environment allowed for companies to take on significant levels of debt to fund their expansion efforts. Ray Costa, Benefit Street Partners, and Eric Larsson, Alcentra, discuss the impact of the changing US and European macro picture on the distressed debt market.
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On the Curve Carries On: Investing in Intermediate Corporate Fixed Income
Last year we highlighted the relative attractiveness of the intermediate part of the corporate curve. And a year later, we believe we continue to see value in the intermediate corporate credit space. In this paper, we highlight the potential opportunities for investors amidst the current valuations in high grade fixed income strategies across the curve.
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Third Quarter 2023 - Fixed income perspectives
Themes, outlook, and investment implications across global fixed income markets
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An accounting ‘big bang’? The implications for insurance investors from IFRS 9 and 17
Sustained inflation has triggered unprecedent monetary tightening and a surge in interest rates which in turn have revived volatility and provoked changes in market liquidity conditions.