15/03/2019 Real & Alternative Assets Gold in central banks' asset allocation After a long lacklustre period during the 1980s and 1990s, the price of gold has picked up significantly since the new millennium, and central banks,...
11/03/2019 Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Financial Applications of Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Op... In the last five years, the financial industry has been impacted by the emergence of digitalization and machine learning. In this article, we explore...
11/03/2019 Portfolio Allocation Traditional and Alternative Factors in Investment Grade Corp... While the concept of factor investing has gained significant traction since the 2000s with the consequence of altering the landscape of equity investing,...
27/02/2019 Capital Market Assumptions Asset Classes Views: Medium and long term expected returns Our approach to expected returns estimates is model driven. We break down asset class dynamics into a long term component (or trend/fair value), mainly...
25/02/2019 Fixed Income & FX How investors should deal with the liquidity dilemma The paradox of liquidity (it dries up when most needed) remains one of the key challenges for investors on the aftermath of the great financial crisis...
20/02/2019 Portfolio Allocation Constrained Risk Budgeting Portfolios This article develops the theory of risk budgeting portfolios, when we would like to impose weight constraints.
29/01/2019 Emerging Markets Time to increase risk exposure: start with emerging markets ... The excess of pessimism at the end of 2018 resulted in a sharp decline in financial markets and renewed volatility.
21/01/2019 Retirement Pension Funds Letter 6 - Embracing the full potential of ESG... Embracing the full potential of ESG investing
14/01/2019 Economy & Markets Investment perspectives for a new regime of returns After two years of positive performance across the board, with almost no asset class in negative territory, 2018 is marking a change of direction, with...
14/01/2019 Sustainable Finance The Alpha and Beta of ESG investing Amundi’s new research on the impact of ESG investing on equity asset pricing finds that when an alpha strategy is massively implemented, it becomes a...