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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.
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2027-06-01
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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.
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2027-04-30
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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.
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2027-03-31
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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.
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2026-12-31
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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.
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2027-01-31
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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.
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2026-12-31
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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.
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2026-10-31
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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.
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2026-03-31
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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.
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2027-02-28
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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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2025-12-31
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Extra credit for corporate plans: Advanced topics in LDI implementation
To help corporate DB plans refine their liability-hedging strategies, members of our LDI Team take a deep dive on 3 key liability risks and offer ideas to help improve the design of hedging portfolios.
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2026-08-31
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Liability-hedging diversifiers: What’s on your pension’s playlist?
Corporate pensions moving closer to their end state may benefit from more diversified liability-hedging allocations. To help, LDI Team Chair Amy Trainor offers a liability-hedging diversifiers “playlist” — a set of asset classes and strategies that may harmonize well with a variety of objectives, from downside mitigation to long-term outperformance versus long corporate bonds.
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2024-10-31
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Mind the liquidity (and cost) gap: Revisiting a plan’s hedge-ratio approach
Members of our LDI Team take a fresh look at the process of setting and managing liability hedge ratio targets, including liquidity considerations that are top of mind today and the implementation toolkit.
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2025-06-30
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Our fixed income outlook for 2022, examines our views on inflation and interest rates and the role central banks will play in the coming year.
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2022-11-15
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