The Nordic Brief
Frontier Market Focus: Pakistan
With a very young population of over 200 million people, a middle class of 80 million and a brand new Prime Minister; Is Pakistan set to be the new Asian success story?
Find Your Niche
With growing pressures in the direct lending market, is the asset class still a viable alternative for investors seeking higher yields?
A Core with a Conscience – Integrating Smart Beta and ESG
Cracking the code for a socially conscious, diversified investment solution with the potential to provide additional premia over the long term...
Rev up: engineering an emerging market debt portfolio
LGIM´s Uday Patnaik examines the nuts and bolts of putting an EMD portfolio together...
Alternative Risk Premia (ARP) focus: Trend Following
Trend-following, or the momentum style or factor, is one building block for many alternative risk premia strategies....
Infrastructure, inflation and other risks
The potential for infrastructure investments to protect against inflation is well understood, but there are many important caveats: valuation, revenue risks, weather, safety, and politics....
Meeting the capital challenge within impact growth equity
Private equity investors increasingly are seeking to make a positive impact with their investments. However, for the businesses involved, the reduction in availability of late-stage funding is proving a serious obstacle. This article explores the reasons why....
Navigating stewardship: a case study
Private markets have developed into a global, highly diversified and heterogenous universe where some sub-sectors offer investors relative and absolute value. But deployment has slowed down and we have reached a crossroads: it takes (more) time to agree on value in this new context - argues Allianz GI´s Emmanuel Leblanc
European private debt adapts to the new economic and ESG climate
An increasingly varied universe, private markets may offer interesting entry points for investors amid volatility in public markets and demand for capital. We highlight three areas to consider.....
Where data drives decisions in farmland investing
For years, portfolio design focused on growth, liquidity and diversification across markets. These remain important, but they no longer describe the full picture. A run of environmental shocks, disrupted supply chains and resource constraints has reminded investors that real economic systems have a direct bearing on long-term value......