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Notes from the Road: Inflation, Private Assets and a Cautious Consensus
The beginning of the year always offers a chance to catch up with a broad range of clients who are in the mode of thinking about the big picture outlook: pension funds, insurers, consultants and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. This note reflects on the key issues that clients have wanted to talk about in the early months of this year. Collectively, these topics give us a picture of what’s on investors’ minds.
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Debt’s Bull Case ‘Remains Intact’
In this Q&A, Pieter Welman describes how an evolving political backdrop and the urgency of the energy transition are shaping the opportunity in infrastructure debt.
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Structural Themes Shaping the Opportunity in ASEAN Equities
Favorable demographics, combined with a number of unique investment themes, are creating a positive backdrop for ASEAN’s equity markets.
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Stagflation Haze
The world is grappling with a combination of once in a generation shocks, producing an uncertain and complex economic landscape.
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How real assets provide real solutions: investing sustainably for a better world
Investments in real assets are valued for providing diversification benefits, inflation protection, and stable yield—they also have the potential to be part of the solution to some of our most urgent global challenges.
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Equity-bond correlations: was 2022 an outlier?
Should we be shocked? Negative equity and bond returns in 2022 provided further evidence that annual performance by the asset classes is not as uncorrelated as commonly believed. How frequently do these so-called ‘outlier’ years occur, and how can investors with long-beta portfolios be better prepared?
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Ahead of the Curve, Q1 2023
Read the latest views from our Chief Economist Silvia Dall’Angelo as she outlines three scenarios that could influence markets in the coming months.
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Time Series Forecasting with Transformer Models and application for Asset Management
Since its introduction in 2017 (Vaswani et al., 2017), the Transformer model has excelled in a wide range of tasks involving natural language processing and computer vision.
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Exploiting the low volatility anomaly in practice
It is relatively easy to demonstrate the low volatility anomaly – the phenomenon that first came to light half a century ago showing that investing in higher risk equities is not necessarily rewarded with higher returns. Raul Leote de Carvalho explains.
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Pensions Watch | Issue 24: What’s been happening and what’s on the Horizon in the world of pensions
With the inexorable rise of Defined Contribution (DC) schemes and the continued closure of Defined Benefit (DB) schemes to new members and future accrual, suggestions that DB is dead are ever present. However, with funded DB schemes accounting for around 80% of UK pension assets, most of which are not going to buyout just yet, DB is very much alive and kicking.
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COP 15: Global Biodiversity Framework elevates nature-related risks and opportunities
In December 2022, after multiple Covid-19-related delays, the conclusion of the COP 15 conference in Kunming, China, saw the agreement of a 2030 Global Biodiversity Framework which aims to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.
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COP 27: outcomes, opportunities and emerging markets
The expectations for COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, were lower than for the landmark COP 26 in Glasgow in late 2021. And although world leaders at COP 27 reaffirmed their commitments to expanding clean energy deployment – despite the near-term energy crisis caused by the Ukraine conflict – they did not deliver much action on climate change.
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Setting the tone: Private Equity International interview with Markus Benzler
Co-investment will continue to play a crucial role in PE despite the present macro environment, says Markus Benzler, head of multi-managers private equity at UBS Asset Management
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Renewable energy returns – where next for investors?
As the macroeconomic environment shifts from one of low to higher interest rates, Marija Simpraga assesses how this may affect returns for investors in renewable energy projects.
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Asia ex-Japan: helping clients outperform over the long-term
A contrarian approach involves betting on assets that are not doing well for reasons we consider to be temporary, so that when they recover, we can obtain optimal results.
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Why the next five years belongs to US SMID
The Equities team explain why, against a backdrop where the US economy is likely to ‘muddle through’, there are exciting investment opportunities in the US SMID space.
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Factoring Next-Gen Inflation Resilience into Multi-Asset Strategies
In a changing world, multi-asset strategies need to evolve, especially when building inflation resilience, because tomorrow’s price pressures will likely look very different from today’s. Not only must inflation defenses be diversified, they should also be innovative.
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Multi-sector fixed income 2023
2022 was a year for the record books in U.S. fixed income markets. The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (“the Agg”) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. In those 50 years, 2022’s calendar year total return of -13.01% was unprecedented. The prior record was 1994 (-2.92%); in fact, the cumulative total return of the previous four negative years (1994, 1999, 2013, and 2021) was only -7.30%
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Will US rates peak at 5.5%, as markets expect?
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we ask whether markets are underestimating how much the Federal Reserve could raise rates.
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Decarbonising the built environment - Aviva Investors
We assess the financial and environmental pros and cons of developing new buildings versus retrofitting old ones.