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Bond outlook: Fed pause leaves many paths to income potential
Bonds today provide a sensible option to the dilemma facing investors — what to do as markets ricochet between hopes of a soft landing and concerns of a recession? After a rough 2022, fixed income is back to fulfilling its role as a source of stability and diversification.
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Alternative Allocations: The growth and diversification of secondaries
Secondary funds, commonly referred to as secondaries or continuation transactions, purchase existing interests from limited partners (LPs) or assets from primary private equity fund investors. Although once considered a niche strategy, secondaries have matured and now represent a vital cog in the private equity ecosystem, according to Franklin Templeton Institute’s Tony Davidow.
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Ecuador’s $650 million debt-for-nature swap targets Galápagos protection
The country has conducted the world’s largest such swap in what is likely to be a template for others to follow
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Rethinking Fixed Income investing: Unorthodox portfolio construction in uncertain times
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income: We think the market is being overly optimistic in terms of their inflation expectations and are beginning to account for a change in the US Federal Reserve policy.
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Gauging S&P’s Proposed Changes to Its Risk-Based Capital Adequacy Methodology
Guy Haselmann, Head of Thought Leadership at MetLife Investment Management (MIM), recently sat down with Jingsu Pu, Global Head of Insurance Strategy and Solutions at MIM, to dig through the proposed changes S&P Global is considering to its Insurer Risk-Based Capital Adequacy Methodology. Jingsu will help assess what it could mean for insurers and their ratings.
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Can We Refocus on Fundamentals Now?
In this monthly series, we take a quick, comprehensive look at current macroeconomic themes that matter to clients.
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A hawkish hold as the best outcome for asset prices
The Fed decided to leave the federal funds target rate unchanged, a hawkish hold that provides the flexibility to hike again if needed—or adopt a more dovish outlook should growth and inflation data warrant that approach.
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Help Wanted: Why Smart Companies Recruit for Diversity
Recruiting talent is a basic ingredient for business success. Companies that are more inclusive in their recruiting will discover better-qualified employees, which can bolster competitive advantages and help deliver better outcomes for investors.
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India Outlook: Turning point for Indian equity markets
After a weak start, Indian equity markets have just turned positive year-to-date and remain firmly on investors’ screens.
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Decoding success in Fixed Income: The power of security selection
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income believes there will be no Fed rate cuts this year but global central banks must continue to be vigilant, and expects a short, shallow recession in the United States and the euro area. Fixed Income Views presents the team’s third-quarter 2023 outlook.
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Positioning: to the rescue of tech stocks
Last week’s focus was on real rates rising while growth stocks kept outperforming value ones. This week we follow up with a focus on one of the potential explanations to this situation: positioning.
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Introducing Smart ESG: A Revolutionary Approach to Sustainable Investing
Impact Cubed is a London-based provider of ESG impact data and analytics solutions. Our data is factorised and quantitative, offering a comprehensive and objective solution to the challenges posed by opaque and subjective ESG scores or ratings.
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Five Reasons to Buy European Loans
In a world where interest rates have increased dramatically and geopolitical risks are elevated, investors are torn between seeking yield and preserving capital. European loans can help investors pursue both goals.
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How investors can get on board with sustainable travel and transport
International tourism is expected to return to almost pre-pandemic levels this year, but this poses something of a conundrum. How do we combine the economic and wider benefits of travel with the increasing urgency of the need to tackle climate change?
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Navigating Uncertainty 2.0 - Are bonds in the sweet spot?
Since the start of the year, the potential long term investment opportunity for fixed income has increased. Problems in the banking sector have raised the prospect that central banks will now pivot toward ensuring financial stability and either pause, or start cutting, rates. This increases the chances monetary policy could shift from a headwind for bond markets to overcome into a tailwind supporting results.
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Private Equity Valuations Withstand the Volatility of 2022
We see valuation data from more than 400 funds each quarter, and it suggests the recovery from a relatively shallow downturn may be underway for buyout funds.
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“Investing at a Crossroads” Revisited
Nine months ago, we set out a playbook for the transition to the new investing environment—here’s why it still applies as the rates cycle peaks and inflation eases.
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GP-Led Secondaries: Private Equity’s Most Underserved Market?
Current macroeconomic and capital market conditions appear to be creating attractive investment opportunities for secondary buyers.
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Impact Investing – Global Emerging Markets
“It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.” Paulo Coelho
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Predictably Unpredictable: Demystifying the Road Ahead
Unprecedented. Uncharted territory. Like nothing we’ve ever seen before.