Our approach
With a global presence, far-reaching expertise, and extensive capabilities across major asset classes, we are well placed to help achieve the outcomes our clients demand.
We listen
By listening to our clients’ aspirations and understanding the challenges they face, we are able to create relevant investment solutions and strategies.
We collaborate
Our global business acts as one team. By bringing together our knowledge, skill and creativity across major asset classes, disciplines and regions globally we look to unearth great investment opportunities for our clients.
We focus
Everything we do is driven by our long-term perspective and our focus on building strategies and funds that are built to last. This ensures we develop long-lasting partnerships with our clients.
Investment risk
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.
Capabilities by asset class
Offering exhaustive capabilities and investment excellence across major asset classes.
Our views
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Fixed income
Liquidity optimisation for insurers: Building a bespoke portfolio solution
9 Jul 2024
In the third part of our liquidity optimisation series, we look at how bespoke liquidity portfolios that take into account the interplay between different assets can suit the needs of insurers.
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Responsible Investing
The future of green premia in real estate, part two: Searching for value and resilience
8 Jul 2024
Do energy-efficient buildings have more pricing power, and what could that mean for those investing in the built environment? We bring together the views of leading capital markets researchers, a valuer and an asset manager for the second part of our deep dive into green premia, analysing the investment implications.
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Fixed income
Finding the right blend: Optimising asset allocation in liquidity pools
5 Jul 2024
In the second part of our new article series on liquidity optimisation, Alastair Sewell investigates how investors can find the right mix of assets for their liquidity pools.
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Fixed income
The difficult last mile: Inflation, Treasury supply and the outlook for global sovereign bonds
4 Jul 2024
With the focus shifting from interest rate cuts to the likelihood of rates staying higher for longer, Steve Ryder and Daniel Bright assess the possible outcomes and implications of higher rates and monetary policy divergence in debt markets.
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Responsible Investing
Avoid, reduce, remove, align: Finding climate transition investment opportunities in real assets
3 Jul 2024
In this article, Luke Layfield and Zoe Austin explain four key pillars that can help real asset investors align their strategies with the climate transition and uncover opportunities to deliver attractive returns.
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Fixed income
Bond Voyage: A journey into fixed income
2 Jul 2024
In a special European Championships edition of Bond Voyage, we discuss topical themes in liquidity, emerging-market debt, investment-grade credit and global sovereign bonds (with a little help from Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappé).
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Liquidity
A bigger splash: How much liquidity do I need?
1 Jul 2024
The importance of holding liquidity is well understood by large institutions. But how much is enough? In the first part of our new article series on liquidity optimisation, Alastair Sewell investigates the key considerations for different investor types.
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Responsible Investing
The future of green premia in real estate, part one: The view from the ground
27 Jun 2024
Do greener buildings have more pricing power, and if so, how much? We bring together the views of leading capital markets researchers, a valuer and an asset manager for a two-part deep dive on the latest market dynamics.
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Economic Research
Blueprints for a greener economy: Creating a transition planning ecosystem
25 Jun 2024
National transition plans can give investors support, confidence and direction to accelerate the flow of finance to bring about a low-carbon economy. As such, they should be seen as a strategic opportunity.
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Economic Research
Nothing to fear: Sustainable investing trade-offs
19 Jun 2024
Sustainable investing, and the supposed trade-offs involved, have been a topic of heated debate. But trade-offs are a fundamental part of all types of investment; the key is to be clear about your objectives, as Mirza Baig explains.
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Fixed income
Bond Voyage: A journey into fixed income
10 Jun 2024
This month, we discuss fiscal discipline in emerging markets, investment-grade credit portfolio construction, potential opportunities for sovereign investors in Canada and the merits of a developed-market focus in global high yield.
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Multi-asset allocation
Multi-asset allocation views: Three faces of reflation
6 Jun 2024
Reflation – another word for increasing economic activity, with an undertone that inflation isn't consistently falling – has been the dominant theme for investors so far in 2024. Sunil Krishnan explores how it is affecting bonds, equities and commodities.
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Fixed income
Emerging-market debt turns the corner: The EM investment universe grows amid improved resilience
21 May 2024
Emerging-market debt analyst Carmen Altenkirch reports back from the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings in Washington.
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Fixed income
See the wood, not just the trees: How climate-focused credit investors can help drive real-world change
14 May 2024
Green bond funds and Paris-aligned benchmarks are aimed at climate-focused credit investors who also want the simplicity of passive investing. But while they decarbonise portfolios, they exclude the companies in the real economy that need to transition if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement goals. This is why an active approach can be beneficial.
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Fixed income
Bond Voyage: A journey into fixed income
13 May 2024
This month, we discuss Spring meetings, the path for rates and sustainability-linked bonds.
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Real Assets
Cyclical, structural, vintage: The outlook for real estate equity
10 May 2024
High inflation and rising rates hit activity in real estate markets over the past year. But cautious optimism is now returning to the investment landscape in the UK and Europe, say Imogen Ebbs and George Fraser-Harding.