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From equities and fixed income to commercial real estate, ESG and climate change, join us as we explore the issues global investors are talking about and uncover insights from industry experts that help keep it all in perspective.
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The great wealth transition has arrived, and with it comes a new client base for wealth managers who demand personalization, tech-driven solutions and portfolios that reflect their values. April Rudin of The Rudin Group, join our own Govinda Quish and Dimtris Melas walk us through these shifts, along with a side trip into the global economic and market environment in which they exist.
Globally, investors are rethinking the "pie chart" of traditional asset allocation. Many are adopting the total portfolio approach (TPA) - a holistic way of assessing how every investment contributes to the risk and return of the entire portfolio. In this episode, Oleg Ruban, MSCI's Head of APAC Research, and Ian Patrick, Chief Investment Officer of Australian Retirement Trust, discuss how that shift is taking shape across Asia-Pacific. They explore why some institutions are embracing TPA while others remain cautious, the cultural challenges of breaking down investment silos and how climate goals and AI are reshaping portfolio decisions.
The world's most innovative companies - leaders in AI, fintech, space tech and beyond - are staying private longer and growing bigger before going public. That means much of today's growth story is unfolding out of reach for many investors. In this episode MSCI's Mehdi Alighanbari, Caplight's Javier Avalos and Derek Yan of KraneShares discuss the fast-growing market for venture-backed private companies. They explore how secondary markets, new data, evolving regulation and index-based products are making this once-opaque space more transparent and accessible.
After years of U.S. market dominance, the tide may be turning. MSCI's Ashley Lester and Axel Kilian reveal what they're hearing from global investors—from rising interest in Europe and Asia to growing concerns about currency risk and private equity liquidity. This mid-year check-in offers timely insights into how capital may be repositioning for what's next.
After holding on and repeating the mantra, "stay alive until 2025," six months into the new year, commercial real estate investors find themselves anxious about the way forward. But are there actual signs of distress? Our panel of real estate experts explain.
Questions abound around inflation, interest rates, trade disruption - and beneath it all, fixed-income and derivatives markets adapting at speed. With Treasury auctions stirring unease and a dramatic shift in how global investors are positioning, it's no surprise that bonds and derivatives are back in focus. But the questions are bigger than just "what and where to buy." They're about what tools to use, which risks to hedge and how to think long-term while volatility dominates the conversation.
Luke Flemmer, MSCI's head of private assets, provides his views on how the industry, tools and participants stand to evolve as the worlds of public and private investing converge and more investors adopt a total portfolio approach.
Though many of the headlines follow every twist and turn that equities have taken over the last month, fixed income remains an important part of the story. From drivers of inflation to the relative strength of the U.S. dollar and the rise of private credit as a funding source for corporate America, understanding the shifting dynamics is key as investors plot their next move.
As the year started, the overriding theme was the dominance of the U.S. in the world's financial markets. However, there were already some uncertainties on the horizon. Three months later we have seen quite astounding action on both the policy front and in financial markets. MSCI's roundtable of experts provide their unique perspective on it all.
25 years on from the peak of the dot-com bubble, we discuss parallels between today's AI-driven market boom and the dot-com era with MSCI's Donald Sze, exploring market sentiment, lessons from history and implications for investors navigating current dynamics.
Trade tensions are rising - what does this mean for investors? MSCI's Abhishek Gupta and Thomas Verbraken discuss the latest tariff developments, their potential impact on inflation and interest rates and how they could reshape market dynamics in 2025 and beyond.
Real estate is resetting - but not everywhere and not all at once. Tom Leahy and Ben Chow, the EMEA and APAC heads of real-estate research at MSCI, unpack 2025's key trends, from interest rates to AI-driven demand, and discuss why strategy, timing and resilience could be important drivers going forward.
The first Bitcoin was mined on Jan. 3, 2009. Since then, much of the story has been about volatility, speculation and retail investors. But our guests - including MSCI's Padmakar Kulkarni, Barbara Schlyter of DWS Group and Menai's CIO, Shubin Jha - help us dig deeper into the world of digital-assets investing and examine why institutional investors have started to pay closer attention.
The dominance of the U.S. showed no signs of waning as the year began. But what will investors be watching as they seek to steady an unbalanced world? Our quarterly panel breaks down the potential effects for global equities, fixed income and private investments, as well as one area where it's Asia that dominates - energy consumption.
With fixed-income investors still recovering from a year that arguably saw nearly every cycle of the market, we look ahead to 2025 across sectors, including sustainability-linked bonds, securitized products and the ongoing effects of inflation and moves by central banks.
When it comes to managing portfolios, the role of risk, and risk managers continues to evolve. We hear from two industry leaders, recently returned from the MSCI Analytics Summit, on the future of identifying, measuring and managing risk.
We're joined by MSCI's Chief Research Officer, Ashley Lester and Chief Client Officer, Axel Kilian, who recently attended the 19th annual Institutional Investor Forum, hosted by MSCI. We discuss the benefits and considerations of a total portfolio approach, as well as the myriad of challenges facing asset owners and investors around the world.
From the effects of China's stimulus to the power of sustainability on portfolio performance and companies cost of capital, our panel dissects the latest market drivers and where investors may be focused for the rest of 2024.
Rate hikes from central banks around the world may offer a glimmer of hope to commercial real estate (CRE) investors, but will it be the panacea they're looking for? We discuss the state of the CRE debt market and the potential path for portfolios.
One of the key aspects of controlling or limiting climate change is the energy transition. That is, the global energy sector's shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption - including oil, natural gas and coal - to renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as well as lithium-ion batteries. To discuss where things stand in the transition, we spoke to MSCI ESG Research's Chris Cote and Yu Ishihara, author of the recently published paper "Auto Industry: Emissions vs. Economics," along with Tyler Rosenlicht, Head of Natural Resource Equities at Cohen Steers.
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