Focus, flexibility and resilience: Resilience for multi-asset investors in Asia Pacific (Part 3)
Resilience goes beyond simply allocating across asset classes. In the final video of this three-part series, Andrew Sharp Paul and Steve Gorman discuss how thoughtful manager selection, an understanding of how different alphas behave across regimes, and a consistent assessment framework across public and private investments can help investors build more resilient portfolios.
Focus, flexibility and resilience: Flexibility for multi-asset investors in Asia Pacific (Part 2)
Flexibility can be a powerful advantage in multi-asset investing. In the second video of this three-part series, Andrew Sharp Paul and Steve Gorman explore how investors can adapt to changing market conditions through active asset allocation, specialist security selection, and risk management, while maintaining a disciplined approach to risk budgeting.
Focus, flexibility and resilience: Focus for multi-asset investors in Asia Pacific (Part 1)
Focusing active risk is not simply about taking more risk. In the first video of this three-part series, Andrew Sharp Paul and Steve Gorman discuss why investors should better understand the sources of active risk construction and how to think about the spectrum between strategic asset allocation and total portfolio approach.
Looking beyond mega-caps
We explore how the growing concentration of capital in mega-cap private companies is reshaping the venture and growth opportunity set, and the implications for portfolio construction, manager selection, diversification, and potential return opportunities across private markets.
Focus, flexibility and resilience: Top of mind for fixed income investors in Asia Pacific
In this video, Andrew Sharp-Paul, Solutions Director, APAC, speaks with Campe Goodman, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, about why flexibility matters in fixed income investing. Campe explains how a flexible, multi-sector approach—spanning high yield, emerging markets, structured finance and more—can help build a more resilient portfolio.
Chart in Focus: Inflation upends typical correlations
Fixed income expert Noah Atlas highlights how higher inflation expectations are disrupting stock-bond diversification and influencing portfolio construction.
Reframing private-equity risk: a fundamentals-based perspective
When it comes to sizing private-equity allocations, a debate has emerged about the best "yardstick" for volatility. Our experts propose an approach that grounds risk assessments in fundamentals and supports a role-based allocation framework.
Focus, flexibility and resilience: Top of mind for asset allocators in Asia Pacific
In this video, Andrew Sharp-Paul, Solutions Director, APAC, shares three themes that are top of mind for clients in the region: where to focus portfolio risk, how to add flexibility within multi-asset portfolios, and ways to build resilience as volatility increases.
Reinforcing core equity: The fundamental third pillar
Allocators are rethinking their core equity exposure. A more deliberate, three-pillar approach, blending quant and fundamental, can help improve outcomes.
The three drivers of resilient portfolios in 2026
Natasha Brook-Walters sees three key areas for investors to focus on in 2026: the role of alpha, the role of income and the role of uncorrelated returns.
More from the core: How fundamental extension (140/40) strategies could help
Extension strategies may offer investors more flexibility in portfolio construction, along with potential to achieve greater risk-adjusted returns, thus delivering “more from core” in equity allocations without taking on significantly more tracking risk.
The three drivers of resilient portfolios in 2026
What does a world of lower forward-looking return expectations mean for portfolios in 2026? For Head of Solutions Natasha Brook-Walters, it suggests a deliberate, targeted approach to portfolio construction and a focus on three key areas: the role of alpha, the role of income and the role of uncorrelated return streams.
The long-term rewards of a contrarian approach to European equities
Portfolio Manager Tom Horsey and Investment Director Thomas Kramer explain why viewing European equities through a contrarian lens could help investors to uncover long-term opportunities in a rapidly evolving Europe.
The power of local perspective: the rewards of a contrarian approach to European equities
Portfolio Manager Tom Horsey and Investment Director Thomas Kramer explain why they see compelling opportunities in today's European equity market for contrarian, bottom-up investors.
Implementing decarbonisation guidelines: lessons learned in collaboration with clients
For asset owners with net-zero ambitions, balancing decarbonisation goals with investment objectives can be a challenge. Climate Transition Risk Analyst Julie Delongchamp outlines a practical five-step approach to implementing tailored guidelines.
Concentrated markets: Implications for active management, manager research, and multi-manager capital allocation
Members of our Fundamental Factor Team share research insights on the portfolio impact of benchmark concentration and highlight tools that may help, including extension strategies, passive-share analysis, and index-completion approaches.
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