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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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event March 2025
4 min
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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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event February 2025
10 min
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2026-02-28
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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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event December 2024
18 min
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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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event September 2024
25 min
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2026-08-31
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2024 Insurance Outlook: Position portfolios for the unexpected

Tim Antonelli offers two critical ideas for insurers' 2024 investment planning: doubling down on diversification and rethinking risk, including geopolitical and default risk.

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event December 2023
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2024-12-31
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Climate mapping in action: Investment case studies

We describe our Climate Exposure Risk Application (CERA), which can help our investment teams visualize and quantify physical climate risks.

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event November 2023
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2024-11-30
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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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event October 2023
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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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event June 2023
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2025-06-30
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The alpha equation: Balancing active risk sources in multi-asset portfolios

Members of our iStrat Team share their research on the process of deciding how much active risk to take at the asset class and security levels in pursuit of alpha objectives. They also offer a step-by-step framework for implementing the research findings.

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event May 2023
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2024-05-04
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Mid-2022 Alternative Investments Outlook
As allocators cope with economic uncertainty and market volatility, Multi-Asset Strategist Cara Lafond explains how alternative investments could potentially play a role in improving portfolio resilience and returns.
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event July 2022
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2023-08-31
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