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Our latest research explores four major trends transforming fixed income portfolios: the move to indexing, an increase in ETF use, ESG as a mainstream component, and emerging market exposures.
The U.S. faces a severe housing affordability crisis, particularly in moderately priced, urban, rental housing, driven by demographic demand and supply constraint. Developing more Essential Housing is critical to addressing this crisis – and provides a resilient, risk-mitigated investment strategy.
The importance of employing both explicit and implicit protection strategies to address different types of crises.
Shifting DC Times, Invesco's award-winning publication is focused on the latest DC thinking across four essential plan components, with concrete ways to turn ideas into action. Download the publication today.
The US dollar is the dominant global reserve currency. Evidence suggests a gradual, permanent trend towards a multi-currency system. This trend will impact all global investors, across all asset classes. Positioning for this change already makes sense, including short dollars.
For the past seven years, John Hancock has surveyed retirement plan participants to learn more about their financial stress and retirement savings habits, with the goal of helping plan sponsors, financial professionals, and us provide effective solutions to address their needs.
Two liability-driven investing professionals discuss how the COVID-19 experience recalls other periods of market turmoil like the tech bubble and the global financial crisis, and the lessons learned.
Shifting DC Times, Invesco's award-winning publication is focused on the latest DC thinking across four essential plan components, with concrete ways to turn ideas into action. Download the publication today.
In this issue of EDHECinfra Research for Institutional Money Management, we discuss absolute return benchmarks, examine the impact of Covid-19 on infrastructure investment, show that infrastructure companies exhibit statistically significant differences from other investible assets, present our infrastructure ESG research program and review the Infrastructure Company Classification Standard, TICCS®.
A number of economic and market fundamentals have lifted China toward recovery more rapidly than many expected, and which continue to underpin long-term share price performance. Long summary: As global markets grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, investors worldwide are seeing downward earnings revisions and closely watching for signs of resurgent growth.
Invesco's Investment Solutions Senior Portfolio Manager delivers our tactical asset allocation outlook. Driven by the shock of COVID-19, our macro framework moved into a global contraction regime in February and it remains in place broadly across regions.
Structural nuances of venture capital and growth equity investing create opportunities during a market downturn for private equity portfolio diversification and long-term value creation.
Defensive equity strategies have an obvious appeal right now, but how do you get the most out of their potential benefits? We look at how to differentiate between investment approaches, classify them by outcomes, and implement them in your portfolio
With remarkable divergences in ESG adoption across regions and by asset class, three leading experts discuss both the “push” and “pull” factors driving institutional ESG investing today.
Will the strong momentum gold experienced in 2019 continue? Explore the key trends set to shape the global gold market this year. Also, Qaurum, a pioneering new gold valuation tool is now available to help you understand gold’s drivers and their impact on performance.