Allocation

Investors are expressing growing skepticism that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise rates this year amid fragility in the global economy and earnings, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for October.

Sometimes, I wonder if asset allocators realise how lucky they used to be. We used to have the luxury of combining bonds with equities to form a diversified portfolio. Sovereign bonds – from many countries – used to be of high quality. But I am afraid that those times are now over...

The Global Head of Primary Private Equity at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management discusses opportunities and risks in co-investments...

In a new study entitled “Factor Investing: A Welfare-Improving New Investment Paradigm or Yet Another Marketing Fad?”, drawn from the Lyxor research chair on “Risk Allocation Solutions”, EDHEC-Risk examines the relative efficiency of standard forms of practical implementation of the factor investing paradigm based on commonly used factors in the equity, fixed-income and commodity universes.

According to Deutsche AWM, markets appear to have overreacted in some instances and Deutsche AWM current view is to tactically underweight 10-year Bunds. On Eurozone periphery, Deutsche AWM stay neutral. With regards EM sovereigns, Deutsche AWM would stay on the sidelines for now; there will be opportunities, but liquidity in the market is currently thin...