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Triple Power Play

Triple Power Play

🕔09:09, 15.Sep 2023

Progress often precedes conflict. Take the birth of science during the age of enlightenment. One of the greatest controversies of the 17th century happened when Leibniz and Newton locked horns over who invented calculus first. Both men undoubtedly knew they

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New Economic Paradigms: Sustainable Investing for a Better Tomorrow

New Economic Paradigms: Sustainable Investing for a Better Tomorrow

🕔08:15, 5.Sep 2023

The 21st century faces a pivotal transition from traditional profit-driven models towards sustainable investing (SI). 'The Big Book of Sustainable Investing' offers a comprehensive guide on the essentials of SI, charting both its foundational concepts and emerging trends. It delves

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Navigating the GPT Landscape: A New Era for Asset Management

Navigating the GPT Landscape: A New Era for Asset Management

🕔10:21, 22.May 2023

The promise of GPT in asset management The text lays out a comprehensive analysis of the Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), specifically focusing on their potential application within the asset management industry. The narrative highlights the evolution and potential benefits of

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Embracing Biodiversity: Robeco’s Approach to Sustainable Investing

Embracing Biodiversity: Robeco’s Approach to Sustainable Investing

🕔16:43, 1.May 2023

In "Robeco’s approach to biodiversity – Towards the integration of nature-related risks, opportunities, and impacts in our investments," the authors emphasize the role of the financial sector and asset management industry in preventing biodiversity loss. They discuss Robeco's strategic priorities,

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Navigating Equity Market Turbulence Amid Inflation and Banking Sector Concerns

Navigating Equity Market Turbulence Amid Inflation and Banking Sector Concerns

🕔08:44, 25.Apr 2023

QUARTERLY OUTLOOK – APRIL 2023 Crisis rhymes but no repeat: equity markets left finely balanced As the global economy adjusts to a higher inflation, higher interest rate environment, echoes of the 2008 crisis can be heard. However, the policymakers and

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Factor Investing: A Pervasive and Persistent Strategy

Factor Investing: A Pervasive and Persistent Strategy

🕔08:08, 10.Apr 2023

Robeco's report, "Signals are Green for Quant Investing," reveals that factor investing is expected to thrive in the foreseeable future. The strategy remains robust due to the persistence of factor premiums in the market. Moreover, with the advancement in big

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Despite crypto winter, Digital Asset projects are still thriving

Despite crypto winter, Digital Asset projects are still thriving

🕔14:06, 10.Mar 2023

The Digital Assets industry was under pressure through 2022 with Cryptocurrency prices correcting sharply, as tighter global financial conditions impacted capital markets. The Digital Assets ecosystem is certainly used to a great deal of volatility, and the implosions of the

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Guide to Conservative Investing

Guide to Conservative Investing

🕔08:50, 9.Mar 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present you with this ‘Guide to Conservative Investing’, which highlights fundamental insights on low-risk investing, otherwise known as low volatility investing. The publication also sheds light on the Robeco Conservative Equities strategy, which offers

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Global Fixed Income Macro Outlook Twin peaks

Global Fixed Income Macro Outlook Twin peaks

🕔12:24, 13.Oct 2022

For all of 2022, we have focused on tighter monetary policy, discussing the dilemma faced by central banks (in ‘Czech Mate’) and their subsequent decision to prioritize the war on inflation (in ‘The Inflation Game’). As we peer into 2023,

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5-Year Expected Returns The Age Of Confusion

5-Year Expected Returns The Age Of Confusion

🕔08:27, 13.Oct 2022

The age of confusion is all about multiplicity, persistence and reflexivity In our view, we have now entered the age of confusion. Confusion because of the many moving parts that market participants have to juggle, creating larger divergences in analyst

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Central bank watcher: Work in progress

Central bank watcher: Work in progress

🕔09:01, 5.Oct 2022

It’s work in progress for central banks. But the meaning of this phrase differs depending on the bank in question. For the Fed it means taking policy rates another big step towards restrictive territory. The ECB seems to be edging

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Forecasting stock crash risk with machine learning

Forecasting stock crash risk with machine learning

🕔15:22, 4.Jul 2022

That said, detecting those firms most likely to face distress in the future is far from straightforward. While there are numerous characteristics that can help forecast such outcomes, they perhaps do so most effectively in a nonlinear fashion or in

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The value winter is thawing

The value winter is thawing

🕔16:02, 2.May 2022

Multi-asset market outlook: Commodity prices surged by 36.1% (In US dollars) in the first quarter on the back of widening geopolitical risk premiums and outright supply distortions as the world’s third-largest oil producer, Russia, faced sanctions. As both the level

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The trending charts in 2021

The trending charts in 2021

🕔10:29, 19.Jan 2022

The trending charts in 2021

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The Big Book of Trends & Thematic Investing

The Big Book of Trends & Thematic Investing

🕔13:03, 15.Jan 2022

For hundreds of millions of people, March 2020 was a watershed. Within days, the Covid19 pandemic had triggered powerful shockwaves across the world. Entire populations were put under strict lockdown measures almost overnight. Planes were grounded; and restaurants, museums and

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China flexes its policy muscles – but can they still do the heavy lifting?

China flexes its policy muscles – but can they still do the heavy lifting?

🕔15:07, 13.Jan 2022

We made no changes to the portfolio in December. We continue to be procyclically positioned, mainly through carrying a higher weight in equities. Our preference within equities is for developed markets, for which Europe is our favorite region. Within fixed

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Country Sustainability: Finland takes the lead

Country Sustainability: Finland takes the lead

🕔08:38, 12.Jan 2022

Update – December 2021 Covid-19 with adverse and complex implications Tentative hopes of a foreseeable end to the coronavirus pandemic have been dashed again with new waves of Covid-19 raging in many parts of the world and the recent detection

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Positions: the equity beta of the portfolio was increased

Positions: the equity beta of the portfolio was increased

🕔16:52, 22.Dec 2021

Multi-asset market outlook  While inflation in the US hit a new high in November, stagflationary fears have substantially eased. The pick-up in economic momentum visible in the employment numbers and the purchasing manager’s survey have both eased growth concerns. Of

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The roasting twenties 2022-2026 outlook

The roasting twenties 2022-2026 outlook

🕔08:24, 4.Oct 2021

Tthings are heating up It’s easy to understand Elon Musk’s fascination with Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the alternating current (AC) technology that serves as the backbone of the company’s electric vehicles. Talking to Collier’s magazine back in 1926, in

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The profits party peaks, but the aftermath looks benign

The profits party peaks, but the aftermath looks benign

🕔11:18, 28.Sep 2021

Multi-asset market outlook: Equity markets continued their march higher this month. Neither slowing macro momentum nor increasing infections have hindered this rise and the ‘buy the dip’ strategy continues to be a winner. After a brief dip mid-month, equities …

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The profits party peaks, but the aftermath looks benign

The profits party peaks, but the aftermath looks benign

🕔08:24, 20.Sep 2021

Equity markets continued their march higher this month. Neither slowing macro momentum nor increasing infections have hindered this rise and the ‘buy the dip’ strategy continues to be a winner. After a brief dip mid-month, equities quickly regained upward momentum,

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How capex holds the key to a self-sustaining economic recovery

How capex holds the key to a self-sustaining economic recovery

🕔10:27, 3.Aug 2021

Multi-asset market outlook: Interest rates seems to have entered a period of consolidation. US rates even moved lower towards the 1.40% level in June. In Europe, most rates kept upwards momentum, but at a much slower pace than in previous

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Spring has sprung for Value investing

Spring has sprung for Value investing

🕔15:48, 1.Jun 2021

After ‘a lost decade’ of tepid performance, the Value factor has begun to stage a comeback, following the announcement of successful Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine candidate results on 9 November 2020. Despite the recent rally and reversal of fortunes, spreads in

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Multi-asset market outlook

Multi-asset market outlook

🕔09:28, 13.Apr 2021

While fixed income markets mainly remained under pressure, they were not the worst performing asset class in March. That honor went to commodities. After leading the way over the past months, commodities came under pressure in March. The decline was broad based. Crude oil lost …

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Tackling the Trilemma

Tackling the Trilemma

🕔07:32, 24.Nov 2020

Investment Outlook 2021 2020 will likely go down as one of the most remarkable years in history: from an economic perspective, as Covid-19 brought the deepest recession since the 1930s, and from a public health and social viewpoint as well.

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Brave real world

Brave real world

🕔12:54, 30.Sep 2020

It’s as if nothing happened. At the time of writing, the MSCI AC World index in EUR is up 8% since a year ago, which is very close to our long-term equilibrium equity return estimate of 7%. Yet, in the

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Gross Domestic Past-it – Rethinking how we value our progress as a society

Gross Domestic Past-it – Rethinking how we value our progress as a society

🕔09:25, 25.Sep 2020

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been the go-to metric for assessing countries' development trajectories. In turn, investors are largely judged …

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Climate change: a problem that insurance companies can’t afford to ignore

Climate change: a problem that insurance companies can’t afford to ignore

🕔15:21, 14.Aug 2020

Climate change could have profound implications for property and casualty insurance companies due to the claims expected to result from an increased number of major weather events. What’s more, as major investors, insurers are faced with a likely double whammy

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Climate change: a problem that insurance companies can’t afford to ignore

Climate change: a problem that insurance companies can’t afford to ignore

🕔15:00, 17.Jul 2020

Climate change could have profound implications for property and casualty insurance companies due to the claims expected to result from an increased number of major weather events. What’s more, as major investors, insurers are faced with a likely double whammy

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Unlocking value in the euro  – Multi-asset market outlook

Unlocking value in the euro – Multi-asset market outlook

🕔11:44, 9.Jul 2020

Economic data is coming in stronger than expected. The better data is to some extent just a reflection of improvement from a low base – but on the other hand, it is confirmation that the worse of the economic contraction

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Adding commodities to the mix

Adding commodities to the mix

🕔15:14, 9.Jun 2020

May: Oil is back…  Risky assets continued their ascent in May. The best-performing asset class was commodities, and oil in particular. After an extremely negative performance in April, oil rebounded sharply. Pandemic fears continue to wane, and countries are slowly

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Will the oil price crash lower carbon footprints?

Will the oil price crash lower carbon footprints?

🕔11:04, 13.May 2020

Multi-asset market outlook  April was a good month for most risky assets. These positive returns, however, came on the back of a brutal correction. While most asset classes rebounded in April, some failed to find a bottom. Oil prices continued

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Central Bank Watcher

Central Bank Watcher

🕔16:55, 5.May 2020

Rates in lockdown for longer  With the outbreak of the coronavirus hitting the global economy, central banks have stepped up to the plate by delivering significant amounts of easing. Official yields are now at or below zero for all developed

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Policy missteps could hurt markets more than the virus

Policy missteps could hurt markets more than the virus

🕔08:55, 6.Mar 2020

Perspectives on the Coronavirus Outbreak The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is the cause of COVID-19, a severe respiratory disease first detected in Wuhan, China…  

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Investing in China is a question of stock picking rather than index picking

Investing in China is a question of stock picking rather than index picking

🕔14:50, 30.Jan 2020

The relationship between China and the West has changed radically China faces many challenges and may not overtake the US by 2030 Finding expert managers is key for investors to make the right choices

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Investing in China is a question of stock picking rather than index picking

Investing in China is a question of stock picking rather than index picking

🕔17:18, 13.Jan 2020

Emerging Markets The relationship between China and the West has changed radically China faces many challenges and may not overtake the US by 2030 Finding expert managers is key for investors to make the right choices   

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Norway – the world’s most sustainable country

Norway – the world’s most sustainable country

🕔10:43, 6.Jan 2020

Country Sustainability Ranking Update – December 2019 Scandinavia continues to dominate sustainability rankings, lead this time by Norway.  The Nordic 4 along with Switzerland maintain their strong position thanks to leadership in governance, innovation, human capital, and environmental indicators.  Elsewhere

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Central Bank Watcher: playing the waiting game

Central Bank Watcher: playing the waiting game

🕔15:15, 31.Dec 2019

Fed, ECB, PBoC and the Boj

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All factor strategies go through long periods of poor performance

All factor strategies go through long periods of poor performance

🕔12:04, 22.Nov 2019

Factor investing requires a long-term perspective Talking about a demise of factors seems premature Active managers can add value through intelligent design

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A tale of s scenarios

A tale of s scenarios

🕔12:56, 15.Nov 2019

Outlook 2020 The recurring theme of this outlook can be summarized in just two words: ‘what if?’. We expect the economic expansion to last a little longer, and the equity bull market to enter the last leg of a near

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Lower credit risk observed in sectors that are positively aligned with the SDGs

Lower credit risk observed in sectors that are positively aligned with the SDGs

🕔09:08, 13.Nov 2019

SDG Credits Research

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Search for yield versus lurch to protectionism

Search for yield versus lurch to protectionism

🕔12:37, 14.Oct 2019

2018 was a bear market, but in the last six months credit has traded in a range – a remarkable performance given the slowdown in economic growth. Since last quarter, rates markets have been much more volatile than credit. Ominously,

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Multi-asset markets outlook

Multi-asset markets outlook

🕔17:59, 23.Sep 2019

The global economy is stuck in a persistent slowdown concentrated in the manufacturing sector amidst pervasive economic policy uncertainty. The latest ISM manufacturing producer confidence index slid into contraction territory at 49.1 in August, delivering little comfort for investors. Is

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What yield curve inversion means for credit investors

What yield curve inversion means for credit investors

🕔08:50, 16.Sep 2019

The US 2s10s curve inverted in August, other curves had already inverted

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Investing in a 50:50 World

Investing in a 50:50 World

🕔14:36, 11.Sep 2019

Speed read China-US trade deal has been delayed, expect more volatility Look for structural changes: China stimulus and global IT supply chains Best opportunities remain outside of the US, as long as we have a trade deal 

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Global Fixed Income Macro

Global Fixed Income Macro

🕔10:52, 15.Aug 2019

Central bank watcher: Time to deliver Fed: make life easy and do 50 ECB: A september to remember PBOC: Easing bij reform?

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Beleggen in een 50/50-wereld

Beleggen in een 50/50-wereld

🕔17:08, 26.Jul 2019

Welkom in een nieuwe wereld. Er is nog steeds geen handelsdeal en de winstherzieningen zijn verslechterd. Bovendien zijn centrale banken over de hele wereld nu nog milder dan in het vorige kwartaal. Onze vooruitzichten voor ontwikkelde markten blijven neutraal en

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‘Let’s use finance to make the world a better place’

‘Let’s use finance to make the world a better place’

🕔12:02, 17.Jul 2019

Robeco Quarterly It’s been 20 years since you were involved with the launch of Robeco’s first SI fund. How much do you think has changed in sustainable investing over that time? Is it now mainstream, or still work in progress?

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Multi-asset markets outlook – July

Multi-asset markets outlook – July

🕔17:02, 10.Jul 2019

Economic numbers were generally uninspiring in June. On a relative basis, data out the US was weaker than expected. In June it was less about the data and all about central banks. Market expectations heading into the meetings were extremely

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Credit Quarterly Outlook Q3 2019

Credit Quarterly Outlook Q3 2019

🕔15:02, 5.Jul 2019

Be smart, quick and lucky  

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