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Tales From the Emerging World
• 20-Jan-2025
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Amy Oldenburg, Paul Psaila
With the game-changing 2024 election victory of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa setting the stage for a new political and economic era, Amy Oldenburg, Head of Emerging Markets Equity, focuses on a report by Paul Psaila on how the new political landscape may impact the country’s economic future.
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Global Equity Observer
• 15-Jan-2025
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Bruno Paulson
Markets have become increasingly charged, unpredictable and narrow, evidenced by the risk-on rally in response to Donald Trump’s presidential victory and the dominance of US tech giants, aka the "Magnificent Seven". For a distorted index which appears to be priced for perfection, any knock or fade to earnings expectations may spell trouble —presenting risks for index huggers but opportunities for our bottom-up, benchmark-agnostic approach focused on the compounding of high quality company fundamentals.
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Caron's Corner
• 13-Jan-2025
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Market Monitor
• 10-Jan-2025
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Floating-Rate Loan Group
Insight on loan market fundamentals and the role of floating-rate loans within portfolios.
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Market Monitor
• 10-Jan-2025
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Municipal Bond Group
Overview of the trends and developments in the muni bond markets.
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Market Monitor
• 10-Jan-2025
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Emerging Markets Debt Team
In-depth review of fundamentals and valuations across emerging markets debt.
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Big Picture
• 08-Jan-2025
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Jitania Kandhari
Significant debt, a property bubble, underwhelming domestic consumption and trade pressures are part of the structural weaknesses in China’s economy that stimulus packages cannot resolve alone. Jitania Kandhari explains.
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2025 Outlooks
• 08-Jan-2025
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
As we enter 2025, the Broad Markets Fixed Income Team provides a comprehensive analysis of anticipated trends in fixed income markets, highlighting key areas of opportunity and caution for investors.
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Monthly
• 06-Jan-2025
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Portfolio Solutions Group
Use The BEAT as your timely resource for this month’s markets. Each edition gives you ideas and insights that show you how to navigate the current investment environment.
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Insight Article
• 24-Dec-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
In its annual Engagement Report, the Fixed Income organisation provides details on how their investment teams are working with bond issuers on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues to help generate better financial and sustainability outcomes.
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Insight Article
• 23-Dec-2024
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Vikram Raju
Our 1GT team discusses their five key lessons learned from Climate 1.0 and how they can be applied to climate investing today.
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Global Multi Asset Thought of the Week
• 23-Dec-2024
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Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
2024 has experienced one of the top momentum runs of the past thirty years. Historically, such strong performance has led to a near-full reversal in performance in the subsequent year. Cyril Moulle-Berteaux explains.
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Insight Article
• 23-Dec-2024
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Fixed Income Team
In this piece, fixed income managers investing across the duration spectrum outline strategies for seeking higher current income and capital appreciation during this period of change in bond markets.
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2025 Outlooks
• 20-Dec-2024
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Mark van der Zwan, Jarrod Quigley
We believe that hedge funds are poised to capitalize on what could be a rapidly changing environment, while delivering a source of uncorrelated return and diversification within portfolios.
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2025 Outlooks
• 18-Dec-2024
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Tony Charles
As the global macro-economic environment continues to improve, the case for real estate investing has become more compelling. After a period of moderation and stabilization in 2024, we believe that 2025 will see a transition into the next upcycle for real estate. Inflation is trending down, interest rates are falling, and valuations are troughing.
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2025 Outlooks
• 18-Dec-2024
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David Miller
Discover why we believe robust private equity activity has a potential to bolster private credit with growth across a diverse landscape.
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EDGE
• 18-Dec-2024
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Counterpoint Global
Counterpoint Global’s Disruptive Research revisits their 2017 paper on Autonomous Vehicles, highlighting key developments, challenges, and opportunities around trucking and robotaxis.
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2025 Outlooks
• 18-Dec-2024
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David Miller
Discover why we believe that, as venture-backed companies stay private for longer, there is an increased need for growth equity and hybrid capital.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 17-Dec-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
What do changes in the global economy and policy uncertainty mean for fixed income markets in 2025? In our latest video, we discuss how these factors may influence markets and the steps we’re taking to navigate rising complexity in the upcoming year.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 17-Dec-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
How will bond markets decipher the true state of economy and the scale of the incoming administration's polies? The Broad Market Fixed Income Team explores.
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Caron's Corner
• 16-Dec-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Tales From the Emerging World
• 13-Dec-2024
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Amy Oldenburg
Eight years ago, Saudi Arabia initiated an ambitious plan to transform its economy and reshape its global identity by 2030. Amy Oldenburg, Head of Emerging Markets Equity, looks at the Kingdom’s progress to date.
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Annual
• 11-Dec-2024
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Portfolio Solutions Group
The investment environment to start the new year is quite interesting. The Portfolio Solutions Group looks at five key themes going into 2025.
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Global Multi Asset Thought of the Week
• 09-Dec-2024
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Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
Markets are bullish on Trump’s second term, hoping for tax cuts and better growth. We expect no net stimulus and a decent size hit from tariffs and immigration. This should be bullish for bonds as the Fed continues cutting, but could be a disappointment for frothy stocks.
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Takeaways & Key Expectations
• 05-Dec-2024
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Andrew Slimmon
"In his December TAKE, Senior Portfolio Manager Andrew Slimmon details why he believes the “optimism phase” of the bull market is commencing right on cue and what that holds for 2025."
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Consilient Observer
• 05-Dec-2024
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Michael Mauboussin, Dan Callahan
We publish some of our favorite charts that have gone unused or overlooked. We place the pictures in five categories: overall valuation, empirical regularities, capital intensity of big energy versus big technology, corporate performance, and investment management. Some challenge conventional wisdom, others address empirical observations that remain unexplained, and a handful compel a nuanced view.
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Caron's Corner
• 04-Dec-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Global Equity Observer
• 30-Nov-2024
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Marcus Watson, Helena Miles
After unwinding COVID distortions, the health care sector has significantly underperformed the broader market. Yet it ranks high on our two favoured quality metrics, ROOCE and gross margins, with the second highest EPS growth of any sector in the MSCI World Index over the past 20 years. Its strong long-term outlook is reinforced by a rapidly ageing global population, untapped global market opportunities, the nondiscretionary nature of its demand, and broad technological innovation potential.
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Investment Insights
• 29-Nov-2024
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Patrick Reid
Discover why the availability of semi-liquid vehicles is rising across the alternative investment space, with the largest increase in private credit solutions.
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Insight Article
• 27-Nov-2024
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Emerging Markets Debt Team
Do all tough reforms have a high political cost? Reformist governments in Southern Europe are proving otherwise. By taking important policy decisions early, governments in Cyprus, Italy and Greece are not only seeing stronger growth than their norther peers but rising popular support as well.
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Caron's Corner
• 25-Nov-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Media Appearance
• 24-Nov-2024
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Steven Quattry
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Emerging Markets expert, Steven Quattry was recently interviewed by Börsen-Zeitung. In this Q&A session, Steven, provides an insight into prevailing geopolitical issues affecting Emerging Markets. He also provides interesting details on specific themes, sectors and stocks within these markets.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 22-Nov-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
In his November video bulletin, Chief Investment officer Michael Kushma shares his thoughts on where fixed income markets may be heading now that the US presidential election has passed. Watch to find out why he’s focused on three key themes: Trumponomics 2.0, steepening yield curves and areas of opportunity for fixed income investors.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 21-Nov-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
The Broad Markets Fixed Income Team explores the implications of the U.S. elections for bond investors.
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Media Appearance
• 20-Nov-2024
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Jitania Kandhari
Jitania Kandhari, Deputy CIO of the Solutions and Multi-Asset Group of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, joined Bloomberg Surveillance to discuss her views on 2025 thematic investing ideas.
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Navigating The Curve
• 18-Nov-2024
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Emerging Markets Debt Team
Insights from the IMF's fall conference reveal a nuanced global outlook, underscoring the critical role of country fundamentals in emerging markets. Read our on-the-ground report for the key highlights and analyses.
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Insight Article
• 14-Nov-2024
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Jim Caron, Ryan Meredith, Laura Biancato
Today’s new interest rate and inflation regime deviates significantly from the past 40 years. As such we believe investment professionals should consider modifying their investment process.
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Alternatives
• 13-Nov-2024
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Adam Ross
Geothermal energy can supply reliable, sustainable, baseload power offering significant potential as an energy source, but commercial deployment has been limited. Our 1GT team co-hosted a roundtable during Climate Week to discuss future pathways.
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Tales From the Emerging World
• 12-Nov-2024
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Amy Oldenburg, Jitania Kandhari, Saumya Jain
Emerging markets are buzzing with renewed manufacturing activity after years of sluggishness. This resurgence is fueled by strong government support, improving macroeconomic conditions and new supply chains. Amy Oldenburg, Head of Emerging Markets Equity highlights a recent report by Jitania Kandhari and Saumya Jain explaining the transformational changes that are taking place.
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Caron's Corner
• 11-Nov-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Insight Article
• 11-Nov-2024
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Kenneth Michlitsch
As investors seek to diversify their portfolio exposures beyond traditional assets, alternative lending may offer attractive absolute and risk-adjusted return characteristics.
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Takeaways & Key Expectations
• 07-Nov-2024
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Andrew Slimmon
"In his November TAKE, Senior Portfolio Manager Andrew Slimmon discusses his post-election thoughts on the equity markets and why, he expects potential strength to continue into 2025, albeit more muted."
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Global Multi Asset Thought of the Week
• 07-Nov-2024
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Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
Chinese stocks are likely still underowned by local and global investors but their superficially low multiples do not represent a compelling reason to go overweight China until policy measures sufficient to solve its debt deflation problems are implemented.
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Navigating The Curve
• 01-Nov-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income
What are the economic and corporate consequences of higher tariffs? In this insight, our Broad Markets Fixed Income team explores the potential trade-offs and knock-on effects of raising tariff rates.
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Global Equity Observer
• 31-Oct-2024
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Nic Sochovsky
Consumer staples are now at a near 25-year low in terms of relative valuation and at their lowest weight in the MSCI World Index this century. Yet the sector has demonstrated resilience despite an exceptionally turbulent four years. With growth driven by recurring revenue from the everyday products they sell, their operating resilience during economic downturns gives staples companies that exhibit agility, innovation and high levels of brand investment a key role in our portfolios.
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Alternatives
• 30-Oct-2024
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Aaron Sack, Patrick Whitehead
A successful approach to operational value creation has been key to driving successful private equity outcomes over the last decade. It is increasingly important as we adjust to an environment of higher interest rates and inflation, lower levels of financial leverage, and uncertain macroeconomic growth.
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Navigating The Curve
• 29-Oct-2024
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Emerging Markets Debt
Emerging markets debt is currently benefitting from a favorable macro backdrop, attractive real yields and growing investor appetite. Will these tailwinds continue through the remainder of 2024 and what should investors be on watch for? Read the latest views from our Emerging Markets Debt team for insights into these questions and more.
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Caron's Corner
• 28-Oct-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Engagement Report
• 25-Oct-2024
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Marte Borhaug
The latest edition of Engage, the International Equity Team’s semi-annual update on their ESG engagement activity.
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Insight Article
• 25-Oct-2024
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Gregory Finck, Anuj Gulati, Erin Glenn
The Mortgage & Securitized Team believes that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations are an essential component to investing in securitized markets. In this paper, they explain how these considerations are integrated into their investment process.
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Alternatives
• 24-Oct-2024
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Eric Stampfel
Amid market uncertainty, investors may be seeking ways to add resilience to their portfolios. Long-short equity strategies have the potential to deliver steady returns in volatile markets.
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Global Multi Asset Thought of the Week
• 22-Oct-2024
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Cyril Moulle-Berteaux
Given a strong consensus for a Soft Landing and lingering Recession fears, No Landing would be the most contrarian scenario for markets. In fact, there are some hints that the dichotomy between strong spending and weak labor markets could resolve in favor of No Landing.
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Tales From the Emerging World
• 22-Oct-2024
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Amy Oldenburg, Steven Quattry
Amy Oldenburg, Head of Emerging Markets Equity at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes savvy investors should take a closer look for hidden gems in emerging and frontier markets.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 18-Oct-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
Is market optimism about rates too high? Find out why high volatility potential and tight spreads are making us choosier about bonds.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 18-Oct-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
The Broad Markets Fixed Income Team explores the impact of the Fed's Sepember rate cuts for fixed income investors.
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Consilient Observer
• 15-Oct-2024
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Michael Mauboussin, Dan Callahan
Strategy explains how a firm builds a moat around its business to pursue sustainable value creation. We begin by showing why strategy matters while also distinguishing between industry and company life cycles. We turn next to industry analysis as we get the lay of the land. We then discuss industry structure and disruption and dis-integration. We finish with firm analysis. We examine the sources of added value and review pricing decisions, regulation, and brands. We include a checklist.
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Global Equity Observer
• 15-Oct-2024
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Bruno Paulson
While calm has returned following summer’s brief market squall, the sell-off acted as a good test run for our global portfolios, which appeared resilient in the face of these fears, actually rising 1% while the MSCI World fell 7%. With a benign outlook priced in again as though the scare never happened, a portfolio delivering resilient earnings at a reasonable valuation may offer some high quality defence—as it did this summer.
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Insight Video
• 14-Oct-2024
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International Equity Team
One of our holdings has been around since 1892 and is enjoyed 2 billion times a day. With a strong brand, entrenched intangible assets, high returns on operating capital and significant pricing power, it’s exactly what we look for. Learn about our approach to long-term compounders for long-term investors.
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Caron's Corner
• 14-Oct-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Insight Video
• 14-Oct-2024
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International Equity Team
Our life sciences companies form a crucial part of the health care supply chain. Their products are a fraction of their customers’ cost base, they benefit from the nondiscretionary nature of health care demand and their regulatory framework makes it very difficult for customers to switch suppliers—making them a good example of the resilience we seek.
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Insight Video
• 14-Oct-2024
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International Equity Team
We own a leading elevator company that services over 2 million elevators globally—which typically remain in service for decades. As the installed base of elevators around the world continues to grow steadily, this creates a very reliable profit stream that illustrates our preference for long-term compounders for long-term investors.
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Navigating The Curve
• 11-Oct-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income
Central banks are lowering policy rates, but the pace and magnitude varies by market. The Broad Markets Fixed Income team explains what the variable policy paths could mean for fixed income investing ahead.
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Alternatives
• 11-Oct-2024
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Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions Team
Within the private alternatives universe, private equity is one of the most rapidly growing asset classes. With a range of strategies, private equity investing offers distictive qualitative characteristics that differentiate the asset class.
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Webinar
• 10-Oct-2024
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The quarter ahead and top asset allocation ideas from our investment specialists moderated by Thomas Chaussier, Head of Investment Management France.
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Insight Article
• 10-Oct-2024
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AIP Hedge Fund Team
The MSIM Hedge Fund Team explores the ways in which hedge funds may directly benefit from a higher cash yield environment making them compelling options as sources of returns and diversification.
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Media Appearance
• 10-Oct-2024
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Vishal Khanduja
Vishal Khanduja joined CNBC Squawk Box Asia to discuss his view that the U.S economy is on track for a soft landing and how that impacts his fixed-income strategy.
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Market Monitor
• 10-Oct-2024
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Emerging Markets Debt Team
In-depth review of fundamentals and valuations across emerging markets debt.
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Market Monitor
• 10-Oct-2024
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Municipal Bond Group
Overview of the trends and developments in the muni bond markets.
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Market Monitor
• 04-Oct-2024
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Floating-Rate Loan Group
Insight on loan market fundamentals and the role of floating-rate loans within portfolios.
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Caron's Corner
• 03-Oct-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Tales From the Emerging World
• 02-Oct-2024
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Amay Hattangadi, Uday Tharar, Aayushi Kukreja
After four years of political turmoil, Malaysia’s recent stability is paving the way for the government to implement critical reforms, ultimately making the country’s prospects promising. Amay Hattangadi, Uday Tharar and Aayushi Kukreja explain.
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Alternatives
• 26-Sep-2024
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Morgan Stanley Private Credit
Direct lending continues to offer compelling relative value compared to other asset classes and offers attractive diversification alternative to public fixed income. Further, when considered in the context of public markets, direct lending has significant room to grow.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 24-Sep-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
When the Fed says "cut," investors ask "How deep?" Find out where we stand on current rate forecasts, plus our outlook for the credit market and the US dollar.
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Media Appearance
• 24-Sep-2024
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Craig Brandon
Craig Brandon, Co-Head of Municipals at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, joins CNBC The Exchange to discuss how rate cuts will affect municipal bonds, how the election and tax rates could impact municipals, and more.
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• 20-Sep-2024
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Lauren Hochfelder
Lauren Hochfelder, Co-CEO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, joined Bloomberg The Close to discuss the megatrends driving investment opportunities in commercial real estate, including the impacts of global supply chain changes, aging demographics and office preferences.
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Media Appearance
• 20-Sep-2024
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Jitania Kandhari
Jitania Kandhari, Deputy CIO of the Solutions and Multi-Asset Group of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, on Bloomberg Surveillance to discuss the equity and fixed income markets. She speaks to the impacts of inflation, how investors should think about the 60/40 allocation and how the dollar view impacts the positioning in international markets.
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Alternatives
• 20-Sep-2024
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Pamela Fung
With Indian public markets having experienced a strong run-up since 2020, global allocators have been turning to Indian private equity. In this paper, we aim to examine the promising performance potential of Indian private equity.
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Alternatives
• 20-Sep-2024
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Ashwin Krishnan
Debtwire caught up with Ashwin Krishnan, co-head of North America private credit and head of opportunistic credit at Morgan Stanley Private Credit, in a conversation debating the merits of sponsored versus non-sponsored deals and formalized partnerships for deal origination.
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Insight Article
• 19-Sep-2024
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Mark van der Zwan, Jarrod Quigley
Our hedge fund team discusses their outlook and the opportunities they are seeing for the remainder of 2024.
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Insight Video
• 18-Sep-2024
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Brad Godfrey
Co-head of emerging market debt Brad Godfrey shares the potential diversification, income and return advantages of a growing and powerful asset class.
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Global Fixed Income Bulletin
• 18-Sep-2024
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Broad Markets Fixed Income Team
Fixed income put in another solid performance in August despite unprecedented volatility in the first two weeks. The Broad Markets Fixed Income Team explores.
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Takeaways & Key Expectations
• 17-Sep-2024
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Andrew Slimmon
"In his September TAKE, Senior Portfolio Manager Andrew Slimmon discusses why, like in previous US Presidential election years, this time of equity market volatility is a period to be a patient and intentional investor, in preparation for a likely strong finish to 2024."
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Caron's Corner
• 16-Sep-2024
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Jim Caron
Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group, shares his macro thematic views on key market drivers.
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Media Appearance
• 10-Sep-2024
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Craig Brandon
Craig Brandon, Co-Head of Municipals at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, joins Bloomberg Surveillance Radio to discuss the muni market, its focus on infrastructure, the opportunity in high yield munis right now and how sectors such as commercial real estate may impact the municipal market.
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Insight audio
• 06-Sep-2024
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Mark van der Zwan
Mark van der Zwan, Chief Executive Officer for Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Hedge Fund team, appears on Resonanz Spotlight to explore the past, present, and future of hedge fund investing
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Caron's Corner
• 05-Sep-2024
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