Historically, this has often been the case. But this time may be different.
In our first issue of Insurance Investment Management Insights, our experts offer their insights on the crucial topics which are likely to impact insurance companies.
Invesco’s Global Market Strategy Office analyses a range of Brexit scenarios: No-Deal risk is high and rising; early elections are possible but may not prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October and the UK itself may eventually split.
China stands firm as Trump proposes a fresh round of tariffs
Invesco’s Future of Europe series aims to address some of the most pressing questions surrounding the euro, the eurozone (EZ) and the European Union (EU), whilst also examining Europe’s troubled past, uncertain present and possible future. The second paper in the series, The Survivability of the Euro, comprises three parts, of which Reform, Relevance and Robustness is the first. In this paper we analyse the vital issue of imbalances between member states and explore the conflicts that they generate.
With expectations of a lower-return environment in the future, we explore how investors can position their portfolios using factors in an attempt to enhance performance.
Invesco’s recently launched US Senior Loan ESG strategy seeks to respond to surging demand for responsible and sustainable investing in Senior Loans. Taking a proprietary approach to ESG research, it significantly improves our analytical skills on risks related to ESG factors, benefitting our existing and prospective clients.
Our seventh global sovereign asset management study represents the views and opinions of 139 chief investment officers, heads of asset classes and senior portfolio strategists, working within 68 sovereign funds and 71 central banks (with assets totalling in excess of US$20 trillion under management).
In our latest Investment Stewardship & Proxy Voting Annual Report, we highlight our commitment to responsible investing and how we seek to generate both financial and sustainable value for our clients.
In our long experience as global investors, we understand investing to be the art and science of making decisions about the trade-offs between the opportunity for higher returns and the risk of pursuing those returns. Much of that information is not readily available to investors and sometimes those trade-offs are not always evident. To see them, we need the right information.
Through deeper understanding of the insurance environment and experience in insurance investment management we are privileged to partner with our clients whilst seeking to provide a differentiated value-added outcome across the full investment cycle that could produce enhanced business results.
Five years ago, researchers at Invesco Investment Solutions debuted a robust methodology for developing capital market assumptions based on 10-year investment horizons.
Read our latest research and views on factor investing in fixed income, pension reform in China and low volatility anchoring and equal weighting. We also present a number of ESG case studies from our Henley Investment Centre.
In the complex insurance regulatory environment, Elizabeth Gillam, Head of EU Government Relations and Public Policy at Invesco, based in Bruxelles, brings her lights on the crucial topics which actually impact insurance companies.
Our second global fixed income study provides insights on the views, opinions and experiences of 145 fixed income specialists, across pension funds (both defined benefit and defined contribution), sovereign wealth funds, insurers and wholesale investors including private banks, diversified fund managers, multi-managers, and model builders.
We look at how an ‘Equity Enhanced Fixed Income' approach could offer insurers an attractive return profile, while providing equity risk management capabilities. And importantly, it can be delivered in a capital efficient way.
How do yesterday’s elections, monetary policy decisions and geopolitical developments affect tomorrow’s opportunities?
