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A Preliminary Language for a
Post-Global World

 

This information is directed at Professional Clients only and is not intended for public use.

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This book sets out what we see as the key issues facing asset owners in the macro environment, and shares the outlook for capital markets, strategic allocation and the future of the investment industry. It will also explore how the next ten years are likely to be very different from the 1980–2020 period.

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  1. Part II: The Role of Active Investing and Private Assets
  2. Part III: What is a Benchmark? What is Risk?

Part I: The Strategic Context
 

Investors face a change in investment regime driven by the macro mega forces of demographics, deglobalization and climate change, as well as the rising influence of AI. In this section, we spell out what this means for return and risk assumptions for capital markets.

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We hope this book will prompt debate about what we see as the key issues facing asset allocators and investors, including:

  • Macro Mega-Forces: Demographics, Climate Change and Deglobalization

  • Productivity, Democracy, Power and Truth: The Influence of AI on Markets and Investing

  • The Role of Private Assets in Strategic Asset Allocation: a Macro Perspective

  • A Cut Above: Why Idiosyncratic Alpha is Better than Beating the Benchmark

  • ESG Investing and its Discontents

  • Too Much Certainty is a Terrible Thing: Benchmarking and the Meaning of Risk

  • Strategic Asset Allocation

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