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Asset Managers, Research Desk and Observations

Pascal Blanqué, Chairman, Amundi Institute
Amundi Asset Management,  20 April 2022
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Charles-Henry Monchau, Chief Investment officer
Banque Syz SA, Focus, Major turning point? 29 March 2022
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Tristan Perrier, Global Views Analyst
Amundi Asset Management,  February 02, 2021
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Gold prices: beyond inflation and real yields

Renowned for its role as a hedge against economic uncertainty and inflation, gold has long captivated investors. One key factor influencing gold’s price is the relationship between real yields and inflation. Over the long term, gold has protected one against the pernicious effects of inflation and remains a powerful diversifier within an investment portfolio:

Robert Burrows
M&G Investments,  Bond Vigilantes, 25 April 2024

100 Days of Milei

Javier Milei, Argentina’s newly elected president, shares similarities with Roosevelt in that he has inherited, to put it mildly, a struggling economy, and has begun attempting to implement reforms in very quick order.

Michael Talbot
M&G Investments,  Bond Vigilantes, 19 March 2024

The case for value

Reasonable valuations could provide an upside surprise

Tim Murray, Capital Markets Strategist, Multi‑Asset Division
T. Rowe Price,  March 2024

Japan, the steep climb that’s about to flatten out

The yield curve in Japan is reaching intriguing levels. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has remained resolute, maintaining an ultra-accommodative monetary policy in a world aggressively hiking interest rates to stem inflation.

Robert Burrows
M&G Investments,  Bond Vigilantes, 1 February 2024

Mind the gap: The value case for global small and mid caps

Jonas Edholm: Mind the gap: The value case for global small and mid caps

Jonas Edholm
Skagen, 18 January 2024
Investment Review April 2023

Investment Review April 2023

Many impossible things are happening in the investment world at the moment; like the bluebottle which sits upside-down on the ceiling, we have to come to realise these things were not so impossible, after all.

Jonathan Ruffer, Chairman
Ruffer, Investment Review, 3 April 2023
Pension Funds  Asset Allocation 2022

Pension Funds Asset Allocation 2022

Thinking Ahead Institute and secondary sources
Willis Towers Watson, Global Pension Assets Study 2023
Aggregate P7 asset allocation from 2002 to 2022

Aggregate P7 asset allocation from 2002 to 2022

Thinking Ahead Institute and secondary sources
Willis Towers Watson, Global Pension Assets Study 2023