Webinar – High-grade bonds: risks and rewards When a virus brings the world to a standstill, how do you continue to deliver value to investors? Join our investor briefings each Tuesday at 9:30am (10:30am CEST) to stay up to date
Webinar – Creating more resilient Multi-Assets Portfolios The markets are in rough waters. Recently we saw the worst daily performance since 1987 for US and the worst ever for European indices. Volatility is spiking, a liquidity shock fuels uncertainty and
Webinar – Qontigo Insight™ Q1 2020 Risk Review April 7, 2020 11:00 AM ET | 4:00 PM BST With volatility skyrocketing in the first quarter, it is more important than ever for managers to understand the risk environment, and in particular
Webinar – Passive Strategies for Actively Managing Risk A complimentary webinar for financial advisors Market volatility is cueing up investor fear of risk exposure. How do index-based tools help advisors simplify the discussion so they can provide investors with some
Webinar – Managing Your Portfolio in an Extreme EMEA Factor Environment March 26, 2020, 2:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM CET As the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, we are witnessing uncharted turmoil in the global equity markets with factor behaviors
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary Risk-off sentiment hit a crescendo last week. U.S. Treasury yields continued their freefall early on, fueled by investor concerns about the COVID-19 virus.1 Yields ended the week higher for all maturities beyond 2 years, led by
Qontigo Applied Research White Paper In a world where some investors pay the government for the privilege of lending it money—and where even fixed income securities with the lowest investment-grade credit ratings yield barely more than 1% per annum—the “hunt
Webinar – Navigating Market Uncertainty With Factors & ESG, partnership with IPE As market volatility, geopolitical risks and economic uncertainty continue to shake global markets, it’s critical for institutional investors to re-evaluate their risk positioning. This means running portfolios as
In this Q&A, Bradford Godfrey, CFA, Director of Alternative & Asset Allocation Strategies and Institutional Portfolio Manager at Eaton Vance, discusses the firm’s insights on recent developments in the emerging-market debt (EMD) universe. How did EMD perform in the fourth
Cross Asset Investment Strategy monthly february 2020 At the start of the 2020s, markets continued to be dominated by geopolitical issues, with short-lived Iran tensions at the forefront initially, followed by the news regarding a phase one trade deal between
Weekly commentary The spread of the coronavirus beyond China has opened up a new global dimension to the epidemic – and potential for a sharper economic drag from efforts to contain it. We expect the economic expansion to remain intact,
For the last several months, we have been tactically cautious on equities; especially non-financial value stocks. We were surprised by the speed of the S&P 500's rally to a record high of 3386 on February 19. Our primary concern was
Investment Talks Market reaction: The further spreading of the coronavirus, especially in Europe, has, in the past few days, triggered a selloff in risk assets and high demand for safe assets (US dollar, Treasuries and gold). As markets reassess the
Investors’ Outlook There was a High Noon moment mid-2019 when the US Federal Reserve’s intrepid marshal Jerome Powell drew his liquidity gun. This surprised the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly all around, and had financial saloons buzzing in anticipation
Capital Market The Union Investment Committee (UIC) maintained its neutral risk positioning (RoRo meter at 3) at its regular meeting on 25 February 2020. Risk positions in the model portfolio were reduced slightly for the time being. More specifically, the
A climate scenario analysis of U.S. insurers’ portfolios The implications of climate change are playing out across two broad channels—physical and transition related. Physical risks of climate change manifest in the form of rising sea levels, droughts, wildfires and storms,
White Paper To maintain book yield, many insurers are shrinking the risk-free asset allocations in their investment portfolios in favor of growing allocations to alternatives. Against this background, a well-designed strategic asset allocation (“SAA”) framework could help companies navigate risk
Regulatory Changes and Scrutiny, “Born Digital” Competition Are Top Concerns for Financial Services Organizations AI, robotics and other rapidly developing digital technologies. Changes in the geopolitical landscape. Shifting customer preferences and demographics. Record lows in unemployment, tightening labor markets and
Managing liquidity risk in multi-asset credit portfolios Most relative-value analyses ignore illiquidity risk: It is very common to see relative-value charts or tables comparing spreads between fixed-income assets of a similar credit quality. The implicit assumption is that assets of the
Investment Perspective 2019 turned out to be a fantastic year for risk takers, and even for those heavily invested in bonds. The regularly touted impending recession once again failed to materialize, and the U.S. Federal Reserve moved from tightening policy
2020 Global Outlook Growth should edge higher in 2020, limiting recession risks. This is a favorable backdrop for risk assets. But the dovish central bank pivot that drove markets in 2019 is largely behind us. Inflation risks look underappreciated, and
Global investment views As we approach the year-end, a look back over the past 12 months reminds us how unconventional this year of records has been. On the upside, equities rallied to historical highs in December and fixed income returns
Research & Strategy Insights The potential spillovers of China’s coronavirus on Asia’s tourism, trade, domestic consumption and financial markets Key points • The spread of coronavirus – 2019-nCov – poses tangible macro risks to Asian economies outside China • Assuming
Divergence of yield and risk An inherent bias for many investors is to remain focused on one’s own regional market when considering investment options. However, compared with purely regional approaches a global investment universe can offer several advantages, not least
Insight Report 15th Edition In partnership with Marsh & McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group
#assetallocation https://twitter.com/PictetAM_NL/status/1245660439775547396
De financiële markten zullen komende weken opnieuw te maken krijgen met volatiliteit naarmate de omvang van de economische schade als gevolg van de pandemie duidelijk wordt. Daarom behouden wij onze neutrale weging voor aandelen en obligaties. https://am.pictet/nl/netherlands/global-articles/2020/monthly-market-views/asset-allocation/april?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=barometer&utm_content=april-2020
Adverse scenario becomes reality -> https://opiniopro.com/2020/03/erste-group/adverse-scenario-becomes-reality/ #CentralBanks #coronavirus #ECB #EmergingMarkets #Europe #gdpgrowth #COVID19 via
@ErsteGroup
2020 – coronavirus reversal and rebound -> https://opiniopro.com/2020/03/dws/2020-coronavirus-reversal-and-rebound/ #coronavirus #Equities #FixedIncome #gdp #interestrates #COVID19 via
@DWS_Group
USD: No sustained trend visible -> https://www.opiniopro.com/2020/04/erste-group/usd-no-sustained-trend-visible/ #currency #fx #interestrates via @ErsteGroup
Tackling The ‘Unknown Unknowns’: How Active Managers Manage Unforeseen Risks -> https://www.opiniopro.com/2020/04/columbia-threadneedle/tackling-the-unknown-unknowns-how-active-managers-manage-unforeseen-risks/ #active #passive #COVID19 #fundmanager #ETFs #behavioural via @CTinvest_EMEA @CTInvest_US
