Artificially low rates are causing multiple distortions and pockets of heightened risks and while the current environment may be unprecedented, it need not be incomprehensible. Investors who understand the dynamics driving low rates may be positioned to take advantage of promising opportunities.
Insurance bonds: an asset class that has rewarded long term, buy-and-hold investors
A high relative dividend yield has traditionally been a key attraction for equity investors in the insurance sector. This has particularly been the case in Europe given the backdrop of a low (and declining) yield environment over the past ten years.
Renewable infrastructure possesses several similar characteristics to traditional infrastructure, most notably the defensive nature and the diversified role it can play in portfolios owing to its lower correlation to equities and bonds.
The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has offered up investment challenges which have not been seen since the GFC of 2008/09, including in the sphere of the currency hedging program.
The two big forces at work and their differential impacts over time
Coronavirus emerged in China, but how has the Chinese government responded, what can we learn from China’s experience and how should investors adapt?
UBS has been speaking with contacts on the ground in China and across Asia to understand the ramifications of the coronavirus outbreak. In this paper, UBS analyse the short- and long-term impacts of the outbreak across key sectors, particularly in China, and show how coronavirus is changing behavior and industries.
China was the first to experience COVID-19 but it is the first to emerge from lockdown. What does the future hold for China’s economy, is there a recovery, and what themes should investors watch out for?
In Twelve’s view the cat bond asset class continues to meet investor expectations during this period of widespread COVID-19 pandemic led market volatility.
With global growth having collapsed under the impact of the coronavirus, rating agencies have been swift to downgrade companies, with many sizeable issuers already falling into high yield and more are expected in the coming months. Rather than a threat, this could be an attractive opportunity for canny investors.
Whether COVID-19 is considered a black or white swan, this session covers the lessons fiduciaries learned about themselves, their teams, decision making and key inputs for portfolio construction?
The investment intelligence behind Australia’s largest asset owners and their teams
In-depth interviews with leaders, experts and visionaries in the institutional investment community
Updates on the latest industry policy developments and regulation
The challenges and innovations of custody, technology and operational due diligence
Investment Magazine provides in-depth, monthly analysis of trends and developments for all the businesses in which superannuation funds engage‚ including asset allocation, investment manager selection, custody and fund accounting, member administration, group insurance and compliance.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land upon which Conexus Financial sits, the Cadigal of the Eora Nation. We recognise their continuing connection and unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and community. We pay our deepest respects to them and their culture, and to Elders both past and present.
