All White papers articles – Page 206
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White papersRoving recession to staggered recovery?
In this monthly series, we take a quick, comprehensive look at current macroeconomic themes that matter to clients.
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White papersNew data hints rate hiking is far from over
Plans for the European Central Bank (ECB) to continue to hike interest rates gain momentum following better-than-expected economic data releases.
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White papersCommodities: From Destocking to Restocking
The micro and macro factors weighing on commodities since last summer are starting to reverse—and secular tailwinds are building.
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White papersCT UK Social Bond Fund – The Big Issue Group
Building a world that works for everyone – Big Issue Group creates innovative solutions through enterprise to unlock social and economic opportunities. A percentage of the Fund’s earnings goes towards supporting Big Issue Group in its mission.
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White papersInvesting in water - A raft of solutions
The opportunities are not only a consequence of climate change effects – severe flooding or drought – but also of decades of under-investment in clean and wastewater infrastructure. Water is pervasive: every economic activity consumes water, and we believe nearly every company needs to improve how it manages that consumption.
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White papersNotes 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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White papersIPM – Edition March 2023
2023 started with optimism for private markets. The eurozone allayed fears and grew slightly in 4Q22, while the US economy maintained a good pace of expansion. Warm weather curbed energy use in Europe and natural gas tanks remained close to full.
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White papersDebt’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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White papersStructural 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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White papersStagflation 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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White papersHow 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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White papersPubs, trams, schools: Framing PATRIZIA’s amenities insights through Manchester as a case study
The regulars at Coronation Street’s Rovers Return pub, who pop into their local every day to discuss the latest dramas, hardships and goings-on in their lives, are well served. The characters in the British TV’s long-running serial drama live practically on the pub’s doorstep, just a quick stroll down the cobbled street that runs through fictional Weatherfield in Manchester. In real life, the rents on their terraced houses would be steep: according to PATRIZIA’s research, the closer you live to a pub, the higher the rent charged.
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White papersAhead 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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White papersTime 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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White papersISA Briefing: China’s great reopening
After nearly three years of enforcing a comprehensive approach to COVID-19, involving frequent testing, rigorous contact tracing and strict border quarantines, China unexpectedly ended its zero-COVID policy in early December 2022.
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White papersExploiting 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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White papersPensions 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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White papersCOP 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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White papersCOP 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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White papersSetting 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
