All White papers articles – Page 49
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White papersEmerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2024
Elevated Uncertainty Complicates Short-Term Forecasts, Despite a Robust Long-Term Outlook
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White papersEconomic outlook: Higher uncertainty, lower growth
There are many ways to describe the outlook for the US and world economies. But at the midpoint of 2025, one word has risen to the top of the lexicon: uncertainty.
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White papersMid-year Perspectives 2025: Cutting through the noise
Mid-2025 brings slower growth and policy uncertainty, with markets struggling to separate signal from noise. Diversification and quality assets remain key to navigating volatility.
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White papersA Framework for Structuring a Blended Finance Fund
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework for structuring blended finance funds, which are becoming increasingly important mechanisms for channeling private capital toward impactful projects in developing countries. The paper explores several key dimensions.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - June 2025
The art of policymaking is a lot about setting expectations against which all future decisions are assessed. When President Trump famously introduced his extreme tariffs on ‘Liberation Day,’ markets were obviously concerned. Since then, resilience in US labour markets, better-than-expected earnings, and trade war de-escalation have boosted sentiment. Risk assets have rebounded, and bond yields risen.
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White papersExposé
Once a year, the “Exposé” examines trends in the real estate sector in relation to overall economic development. In each issue, the magazine also features six outstanding properties from the real estate portfolio of Swiss Life Asset Managers.
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White papersData Center Investments: A 360-Degree View
Investment in data centers has increased dramatically, driven largely by explosive demand from generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the accelerating global reliance on digital infrastructure. As AI technologies advance, the need for larger, more energy-intensive facilities equipped with sophisticated infrastructure, such as high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs), continues to escalate, reshaping energy consumption patterns and influencing broader utilities and infrastructure markets. At the same time, the substantial power requirements and significant capital outlays involved in data center expansion present unique investment risks and opportunities across both public and private credit.
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White papersMidyear macro outlook: A new dawn of uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions, tariff uncertainty and global economic slowdown look set to define the second half of 2025. Our global CIO looks at why active management and research-led investing are the way to navigate this global complexity.
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White papersConfidence up for May but what comes next?
US consumer confidence index rose sharply, and above expectations, in May to 98.0, mainly due to a temporary trade truce between the US and China on tariffs. Expectations about the near future also improved.
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White papersIndian assets have long-term allure as global rivalries intensify
Equity investors will have to cope with greater trade protectionism and regional rivalry, delayed climate transition, and technological transformation in the next decade. In our 2025 Capital Market Assumptions – which examine long-term return expectations for 40 global asset classes – we see shifting dynamics across equity markets, characterised by strong earnings growth in select regions, tempered by valuation challenges.
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White papersThe Consumer Hangs In
Amid changing policy dynamics, fluctuating markets and swings in sentiment, the U.S. consumer has, so far, remained surprisingly resilient.
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White papersWill Smart Glasses Replace Smart Phones?
AI-powered eyewear offers a glimpse into the (not-so-distant) future. Growth investors, take heed.
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White papersBroad-based Logistics Demand Offers Resilience Against Tariffs
Despite the most recent reductions and pauses, tariffs triggered a spike in trade policy uncertainty. This is expected to push up supply chain pressures. European logistics occupiers are likely to further deepen their operational focus from just-in-time to just-in-case to ensure continuity. This might trigger a higher demand for logistics space.
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White papersClass Act: Redefining Student Living in Europe - Trends indicate that a new era in student housing could be taking shape in Europe.
In the recent paper Global Living Reimagined, Hines Research identified a specific opportunity emerging in the student housing market in Europe. Indeed, growth in the European privately developed, owned, and managed student housing sector (also known as Purpose-Built Student Accommodation or PBSA) over the last decade has been notable, expanding from 1.9% of total European investment activity in 2019 to 5.3% as of Q3 2024.
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White papersCan Tomorrow’s Natural Hazards Inform Today’s Investment Decisions?
New research connects intensifying natural perils to their future implications for asset classes.
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White papersThe AI roadmap: Finding opportunities from evolving innovations
The latest earnings results from US technology firms offered valuable insights into the AI landscape and the pace of AI adoption. As innovation continues, AI is expected to grow. We explore where the AI roadmap is leading and what opportunities might be on offer for investors.
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White papersLDI differentiator: the benefits of an integrated solution with credit
This mini-series of short articles shines a light on often under-discussed but important factors to think about when structuring your LDI portfolio framework. Here we look at the benefits of an integrated solution of LDI and credit.
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White papersLeveraging the advantages of 60+ years of private real estate debt experience for clients
With 60 years of experience, private real estate debt offers tailored strategies and disciplined lending to navigate shifting market cycles.
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White papersConfusing Correlations: What’s Really Behind Them?
In recent weeks we’ve witnessed extreme (and at times, puzzling) correlations among asset classes. In this paper, we break down the potentially misunderstood drivers of these strange dynamics and their implications for investors.
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White papersMacro Monthly: The ‘Sell America’ trade and its limitations
Market narratives change fast. Entering 2025, most investors were all-in on US exceptionalism. President Trump’s tax cuts and de-regulatory agenda were expected to boost the US growth and earnings outlook, while tariffs would be disproportionately negative for the rest of the world. Investors came into the year overweight US stocks and the US dollar.
