Investment Insights

Listen to this Talking heads podcast with portfolio managers Claire Mehu and Anne Froideval as they discuss the merits of this asset class with chief market strategist Daniel Morris. Listed real estate has a relatively low correlation with broad market equities over the longer term. Other important attributes are the prospect of limited supply in an already tight market and the value-enhancing effects of regulations targeting the sustainability of buildings.

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Listen to this edition of Talking heads as Delphine discusses the growing appreciation of these social factors with chief market strategist Daniel Morris. Rather than a focus on solutions, she highlights the relevance of assessing company practices, i.e. how a company interacts with stakeholders such as employees, consumers, suppliers and society. She argues that doing well in areas such as workforce relations and worker education benefits a company’s long-run financial performance.

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Listen to this Talking heads podcast with Pam as she talks to chief market strategist Daniel Morris about the secular drivers of demand and the prospects for technological companies.

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Private equity impact investing offers investors access to an attractive asset class that can help diversify a portfolio and earn attractive returns. In addition, it offers an extra-financial component by enabling them to contribute – and help finance – solutions to pressing social and environmental problems from access to healthcare to promoting a circular economy.

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US small-cap stocks are trading near 10-year lows on various metrics, which disregards their typical resilience in periods of rising interest rates and slower economic growth.

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Talking heads - China to deliver on growth in 2022 by BNP Paribas Asset Management

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Foreign exchange (FX) markets can be viewed as a derivative asset in that they tend to be driven by volatility in other asset markets. Since 2015, most of the leading currencies have traded in relatively confined ranges. With volatility rising in equity, bond and commodity markets, there are good reasons to expect a new regime in currency markets.

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Value investing remains a worthwhile approach, even after an extended period of underperformance. A rebound has now set in that looks sustainable. Rising interest rates should be supportive of the value style and value still looks cheap relative to growth.

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Inflation has bounced back vigorously from its pandemic-era lows: The headline rate for the US consumer price index has reached a 40-year high, while in the eurozone, the headline rate for the harmonised index of consumer prices is at its highest in 20 years. What does this mean for investors?

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To help multi-asset portfolios cope with the geopolitical shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a move into cash can be useful. At BNP Paribas Asset Management, we have implemented such an approach to ride the recent market volatility and use bounces to sell assets whose fortunes have now changed and build or expand other, more defensive positions at attractive prices.

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