Asset Allocation – Page 42
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Special ReportEurope’s investment outlook: The complex game of market guesswork
Investors are having to play a complex game of market guesswork
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Value investing – bruised, but not broken
The COVID-19-induced market crash of 2020 has battered investors, and in particular the fans of value investing. In the first quarter, value lagged growth by nearly 14% in the US and 13% globally, exceeding quarterly shortfalls at the trough of the global financial crisis. These losses are second-worst among all quarterly outcomes in over four decades, eclipsed only by the runaway tech bubble in the fourth quarter of 1999, as growth soared and value stalled.
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator June 2020
In the EU, statistics for both contagion and death by COVID-19 are still diminishing. Relaxing restrictions typically causes a short recurrence. The UK and Sweden are behind the curve.
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NewsHSBC, IFC raise $320m extra for EM real economy green bond fund
European occupational pension funds and insurance companies commit to ‘impact solution’
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Alecta sees likely insolvencies speeding shift to alternatives
Sweden’s biggest pension fund to invest at least €7bn more in RE, infra and private debt
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NewsStudy: ‘Social responsibility’ top driver of fixed income ESG integration
Fast rates of change in ESG integration, EMD allocations
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SWFs keep risk exposure during pandemic
Investors were already either overweight cash or underweight equities before March 2020
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NewsPGB to commit €460m in US private equity through RCP
The investment, representing approximately 1.5% of its assets, will focus on the lower mid market segment
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AnalysisFixed income, rates, currencies: Thinking on one’s feet
The enormous scale of national lockdowns has made it hard to keep abreast of all the extraordinary monetary interventions and fiscal support packages worldwide.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Can the system win in EMs?
Systematic investment models have been commonplace in equity markets. Can they generate returns in emerging market debt?
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator May 2020
Using last month’s model of the statistics on daily new cases as an early indicator and daily case mortality as evidence of policy change, the 21 April situation looks like:
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Singapore’s GIC creates private asset investing framework with PGIM
‘Liquidity risk one of the most critical, but least quantified risk dimensions in portfolio construction’
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UK local authority pool seeks specialist China equity manager
Border to Coast has a £200m-£300m mandate to award
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Australia’s Future Fund makes a A$5.7bn Q1 loss
The fund prioritised reducing its exposure to illiquid assets
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Increased credit allocation could improve schemes’ liquidity, says AXA IM
Expect equity to remain volatile with a ’significant risk of a second leg down’
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Japanese government fund preps move into bonds, EM infra
Considering a fund-of-funds manager as part of its global infrastructure strategy
