The current COVID-19 pandemic has shown that society is able to put measures in place to adapt and overcome threats that are detrimental to all of our lives. With this in mind, investors should now be turning their attention to a threat that could dwarf the impact that COVID-19 has had - Climate Change.
In this chapter, Ray Dallio reviews the rises and declines of the Dutch, British, and American empires and their reserve currencies and will touch on the rise of the Chinese empire.
PGIM’s IAS team has joined with GIC EIS to integrate liquidity measurement and cash flow management into a multi-asset, multi-period portfolio construction process. In today's climate, investors are increasingly faced with the difficult choice between potentially higher returns and greater liquidity. Given market uncertainty…
Every quarter, our Content Team curates a unique list of the best asset manager salary surveys from around the world, providing our members with information on benchmark salaries for investment management professionals. These fund manager salary surveys cover a wide variety of roles within the asset management industry,…
PGIM's latest Megatrends paper, “The Future Means Business: Investment Implications of Transformative New Corporate Models,” draws on the insights of more than two dozen PGIM investment professionals across our private and public fixed income, equity, real estate and alternatives managers – as well as a new proprietary…
In this report, CFA Institute seek to identify high-impact applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data in investments and best practice in their implementation by examining specific use cases. For this purpose, CFA Institute conducted interviews with investment industry practitioners around the world and from…
In their first report in 2015, S&P DJI used historical trends to project that insurance companies would double their use of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in five years. Now five years later, usage of ETFs in insurance general accounts has indeed doubled since 2015. In the one-year period ending Dec. 31, 2019, insurance…
The outbreak of COVID-19 has quickly translated into a severe shock for the global economy and real estate markets. Values are set to face pressure, although factors such as contained supply growth, limited leverage and a significant policy response give some cause for optimism. In PGIM Real Estate’s annual Global Outlook,…
In this latest Megatrends piece by PGIM, the authors draw on the insights of more than a dozen investment professionals from across the firm to examine the new "COVID-19 reality" and discuss the impact and opportunities for long-term investors.
M&G Investments examines the main sources of deal flow across Europe’s broad and dynamic private debt markets in 2019, highlighting some of the key observations or themes influencing deal activity in different parts of the market.
We also discuss the broad themes that we believe are key to investing in private…
What does it take for someone to put their capital at risk and entrust their funds to someone else to manage? The concept of trust lies at the heart of this question. Trust is a multi-layered concept, and it is essential to the proper functioning of capital markets. Without it, financial interactions would become more…
Throughout KKR’s forty-four year history, our track record has shown that we are at our best when we are engaged – engaged with our clients, engaged with our portfolio companies, and engaged with our employees – in order to drive the best possible outcomes, irrespective of the macroeconomic backdrop. In this note, we look at…
This presentation by Johnson Associates discusses compensation trends in U.S. asset management, hedge funds and private equity, and the actions financial services firms might take against a backdrop of Coronavirus and systemic industry pressures.
The number of public companies listed on public equity markets worldwide has experienced a significant decline in the past few decades. This development may reduce investment options and expected returns for retirement portfolios. One policy proposal being considered in many jurisdictions is to allow pension schemes,…
Based on Robeco's own research, they conclude that out of the hundreds of factors proposed in the literature many are indeed redundant, lack robustness, or cannot even be replicated to begin with. They do not find, however, that the entire factor zoo can be reduced to just a handful of factors.
This compendium publication summarizes the offerings from the CFA Institute Research Foundation over the past year—books, literature reviews, workshop presentations, and other relevant material.
Pension regulations in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands are similar to insurance regulation in the European Union. Solvency capital (SC) required for credit risk in corporate bond portfolios is close to its economic risk, while solvency capital for equity risk does not distinguish at all between low-risk and high-…
Nuveen’s investment theme for the coming year is 20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth. The “clearer path” part is pretty straightforward: Our investment leaders think the macro fears that dominated most of 2019 have receded. Monetary policy is easier than it was a year ago, and global recession risks seem to have faded…
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