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Infrastructure Outlook: Bridging the Valuation Gap
Opportunities continue to be widespread across the infrastructure landscape, with strong fundamentals and the market still massively underestimating the growth in electricity demand driven by AI and data growth.
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Year of the Election: Why New Global Leadership Matters
While Donald Trump’s presidential victory has dominated global headlines, a number of key election results outside the U.S. could have significant impacts on international markets going forward.
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U.S. Equity Outlook: Guarded Optimism Amid Bullishness
CIO, Scott Glasser explains why he expects U.S. returns to be more subdued but positive in the year ahead given ample liquidity, healthy corporate profits and animal spirits buoyed by expectations of a pro-growth, deregulatory agenda.
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U.S. Economic Outlook: Will U.S. Exceptionalism Continue?
Most key components of exceptional relative U.S. economic growth remain intact, supporting our forecast for a better than expected expansion in 2025.
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AOR Update: U.S. Economy, Equities Set to Lead Again
A resilient U.S. economy has stood out against other developed nations in recent years with stronger economic growth and healthier corporate profits that have fuelled outsize stock market gains.
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Global Value Improvers Strategy Commentary November 2024
Global equities were positive for the month of November, driven by a rally in the U.S. on the back of the market’s optimism over Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election and the prospect of further deregulation.
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Global Infrastructure Income Strategy November Commentary
We believe the defensive characteristics of infrastructure will remain valuable in what we expect to be a more volatile market in the near-term.
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Global Infrastructure Value Strategy November Commentary
Strength in infrastructure was concentrated in the U.S., where GDP-sensitive energy infrastructure benefit from expectations of greater oil and gas production raising volumes for pipelines.
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Developed Markets Infrastructure Income Model November Commentary
During the month, we initiated positions in U.S. energy infrastructure company ONEOK and French toll road operator Vinci. We also exited our positions in Spanish gas utility Enagas and Spanish electric utility Iberdrola.
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Emerging Markets Strategy November Commentary
Opportunities continue to be widespread across emerging market infrastructure.
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AOR Update: Election Implications for U.S. Equities
Trump’s pro-business tax and regulatory policies should boost the outlook for corporate profits enough to offset headwinds from tariffs and higher bond yields.
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Global Value Improvers Strategy Commentary October 2024
Global equities were broadly positive for much of October before a late month pullback erased gains and drove indexes into negative territory.
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Global Infrastructure Income Strategy October Commentary
Our global listed infrastructure strategies outperformed global equities and most infrastructure benchmarks for the month.
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