All White papers articles – Page 9
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Outlook 2025: Trumponometer
Our Annual Outlook provides our key views and investment implications for the coming year
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Buyouts Secondaries Roundtable: This is Not a Market Moment
In a roundtable discussion conducted by Buyouts, Boriana Karastoyanova evaluates the continued demand for capital solutions in the secondaries market, as both GPs and LPs navigate a shifting market backdrop.
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Trump 2.0 and the Semiconductor Supply Chain
Donald Trump’s re-election could accelerate efforts to localize semiconductor production and spark more “friend-shoring” across Southeast Asia.
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Private Funds CFO Roundtable: The Strategic CFO
In a roundtable discussion conducted by Private Funds CFO, Barry Giarraputo discusses the role of the CFO in driving strategic direction while ensuring that scalable infrastructure is in place to deliver sustainable growth.
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ECB: We’re not a “Jack of all Trades”
The ECB delivered another 25 bps cut at its December 2024 meeting, bringing the policy rate to 3.0% as inflation continues tracking to their 2% target, down from near 10% just over two years ago.
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ESG goals, risk and returns – A new framework to optimise equity portfolios
A new paper from BNP Paribas Asset Management, “Impact of ESG Objectives on a Portfolio”, recently published in The Journal of Portfolio Management, details a framework for adding environmental, social, and governance objectives to passively and actively managed equity portfolios so that the impact of the ESG criteria on risk and return is minimised.
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Fiscal to the Fore
How the budget battles in France, Germany and even South Korea fit with our fiscally focused investment themes for the year ahead.
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Emerging Markets Debt Under Trump 2.0
EMD has been more resilient after November’s election than it was after the 2016 result—so, what has changed, and will this resilience last?
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Navigating the Health Care Industry in Trump’s Second Term
As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares for his second term in office, the health care industry is poised for a period of potential change, despite his relative silence on policy details. In this case, personnel may make a major difference, and, in our view, investors should prepare for a landscape influenced by health care and budgetary appointments. While market volatility is likely, we believe maintaining an emphasis on long-term trends will be essential in navigating an evolving industry landscape. Understanding the implications of regulatory changes and key administrative appointments will likely be important in identifying investment opportunities.
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Timberland investing with Manulife Investment Management
How have approaches and strategies within sustainable forestry investment changed over the years? What new opportunities and co-benefits are available in addition to the stability and resilience these assets provide?
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2025 Outlook: We have seen this movie before
As we head into 2025, it is hard not to notice several parallels with the past; it feels like we have seen this movie before.
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40 years of lending lessons
From navigating market crashes to embracing ESG and technology, Adrian Poole and Gregor Bamert reveal how 40 years of real estate debt investing have moulded Aviva Investors’ strategy – and what it takes to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market.
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A New Dawn Seizing Real Estate’s Moment of Opportunity
As we enter 2025, we remain in the midst of a massive transition in the investment landscape. The momentum of the distant past (where unusually low interest rates helped propel growth, asset appreciation, and easy leverage) has long since faded, replaced by a more challenging, higher-interest- rate environment that requires an increasingly strategic, methodical approach.
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A Barometer to Gauge Credit Market Valuations
Through simple market barometers comparing credit spreads with a variety of macro, corporate fundamental, and technical drivers, we can better assess the credit market.
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Outlook 2025: Prospects for the race to net zero
In 2025 mature technologies like solar and wind power as well as electric vehicles (EVs) will continue on their path of exponential deployment - despite some setbacks in some jurisdictions where incumbents start to panic as they realise they have lost ground they may never make up.
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Insurance investment outlook 2025: Navigating evolving markets and regulations
A strong US economy and market, alongside benign economic conditions in Europe and other developed markets have helped insurers strengthen their balance sheets and boost their investment earnings while restoring liquidity buffers.
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Pensions investment outlook 2025: US policy uncertainty clouds road ahead
The coming year will likely be characterised by three main drivers: the US’s politically driven polices; structural economic weaknesses and political uncertainty in Europe; and China’s restructuring of its troubled property market.
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LDI market trends – getting things in perspective
The two key barometers of market levels for LDI are long-term interest rates and long-term inflation expectations.
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Allview: Market Risk Monitor - December 2024
Each month, Allspring’s Investment Analytics team assembles a top 10 list of market risks that it believes have the potential to influence investment portfolios.
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Emerging market debt outlook for 2025: Ready for Trump 2.0?
Looking ahead to 2025, the macro environment, in theory, sets the stage for a friendly backdrop in emerging markets (EM), especially given widespread disinflation, which should allow most major central banks to significantly ease rates throughout the year.