European Investors

Catherine Doyle, spécialiste de l’investissement au sein de l'équipe Real Return de Newton, fait un point sur les marchés internationaux et passe en revue la performance du fonds ainsi que les derniers changements effectués au sein du portefeuille.

New Capital Swiss Select Equity Fund quarterly update

A variety of market and political volatility year to date have investors laser-focused on the global economic backdrop. With valuations pushing historical limits, a stable but flattening yield curve, trade wars and of course China’s 2018 NPC moving their new lower-growth agenda forward, Schroders Azad Zangana examines where he and the Economics team are seeing smoke -- and where there might actually be fire -- as this unprecedented "Goldilocks" economic cycle continues to chart new territory.

Join Muzinich’s Head of UK Institutional Business, Simon Males, who is hosting a panel on the benefits of a short duration approach to corporate credit and why we believe now is a good time to consider an allocation. Simon will be joined by Muzinich’s short duration specialist portfolio managers Tatjana Greil-Castro, Warren Hyland & Torben Ronberg. They will provide their opinions on the current market environment and the different opportunities available for investors looking for a short-duration approach to credit - global credit, emerging market corporate bonds or syndicated loans.

Michael McCulloch, CFA, Portfolio Manager will be providing a quarterly update.

Emerging Markets ESG focus on Modern Slavery and the Issues with Low Cost Sourcing. Please join Zeena Dahdaleh, Portfolio Manager, RBC Emerging Markets Equity as she discusses the prevalence of modern slavery and exploitation and the issues caused by low cost sourcing in emerging markets. Moderated by Isabella Stanbrook, ESG and Sustainability consultant at Sancroft.

Bibiana will provide a quarterly update on the New Capital Dynamic European Equity Fund

Únase a nuestra próxima presentación de Didier Saint-Georges, Managing Director y Miembro del Comité de Inversiones, en la cual presentará nuestra visión así como un resumen de la actual estrategia global de inversión. Tendrá la oportunidad de realizar preguntas durante la conferencia y se contestarán una vez finalizada dicha presentación.

With rising rates in the US, can value still be found in USD bonds? USD yields are significantly higher than EUR and GBP yield – but what are the risks investors are taking? Blanca will discuss the spectrum of USD bond investment opportunities using
Fixed Income ETF examples.

Partecipi al prossimo webinar con Sandra Crowl, che parlerà delle attuali strategie globali e di investimento di Carmignac. LA CONFERENZA SARA’ IN ITALIANO.

Stephen Deane, Portfolio Manager on the Janus Henderson Global Emerging Market Equities team, will provide an update on their distinctive bottom-up approach to the asset class and share their observations from a recent trip to China, including the broader opportunities, risks and culture they experienced.

Gergely Majoros, Mitglied des Investmentkomitees, erläutert Ihnen innerhalb von ca. 30 Minuten unsere aktuelle Markteinschätzung und unsere globale Investment-Strategie.

Dalla nostra Multi Asset Boutique, Fabrizio Basile (Head of Fixed Income Strategy) presenterà la sua stima di mercato e discuterà i prerequisiti per il successo di una strategia Multi Asset orientata al reddito:
-ripartire saggiamente i rischi
-gestire dinamicamente il portafoglio con particolare attenzione alla gestione del rischio
-avere la prospettiva di un creditore che non è avido, ma vuole guadagnare qualcosa e riavere indietro il denaro investito

Join us for our quarter-end strategy update webcast. Engage with portfolio managers to learn about what drove first-quarter performance, the investment team's outlook, and current portfolio positioning.

Managing risk on two sides: The unique challenges of integrating ESG for the insurance industry

【How ESG factors are influencing risk assessments: climate change, capital modelling and extreme events】
· How are recent weather-related events, which are being linked to climate change, changing insurance pricing, coverage and market sentiment? Are ‘extreme’ events no longer so extreme?
· What are the major ESG factors now that are influencing underwriting and capital provision at insurers?
· Tightening regulation on ESG issues and its impact on the insurance industry.
· Is the historical data available to utilise ESG factors as a performance predictor or gauge of risk quality?
· The development of new ESG risk-specific insurance products. Differences in the above trends globally.

【Divestment, investment and the move to ESG benchmarking】
· Why are insurers getting on the front foot around divestment in areas such as coal or tobacco?
· Insurers as investors: how this asset owner sector is shaping its long-term allocations with ESG factors in mind.
· What are the investment tools insurers are using to do so?

SPEAKERS
Axel Zehren, CFO, Allianz Investment Management
Michael Bruch, Head of Emerging Trends and the ESG department in Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS)
Butch Bacani, Programme Leader, UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of ESG Research, MSCI

MODERATOR: Hugh Wheelan, Managing Editor, Responsible Investor

For more news and events on Responsible Investing and ESG visit https://www.responsible-investor.com/

Q2 2018 - Review, Positioning & Outlook

Join us for our quarter-end strategy update webcast. Engage with portfolio managers to learn about what drove first-quarter performance, the portfolio manager's outlook, and current portfolio positioning.

Emerging Markets ESG Case Study of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico; the benefit of stakeholder engagement. Please join Guido Giammattei, Portfolio Manager, RBC Emerging Markets Equity as he looks as the ESG credentials of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, with a particular focus on stakeholder and employee engagement.

BPI Iberia invests in listed Portuguese and Spanish equities or equity related assets which offer upside potential. The fund aims to beat the benchmark over a reasonable time frame through an active management approach.

Aus unserer Multi Asset Boutique werden Stefan Meinhold (Client Portfolio Manager) und Dominik Zörner (Multi Asset Income Portfolio Manager) ihre Markteinschätzungen präsentieren und auf die Voraussetzungen eingehen, die den Erfolg einer einkommensorientierten Strategie mit mehreren Anlageklassen ausmachen:
-Risiken klug verteilen
-Portfolio dynamisch verwalten mit Schwerpunkt auf der Risikokontrolle
-Sicht eines Kreditgebers einnehmen, der nicht gierig ist, aber etwas verdienen möchte und sein investiertes Geld zurück haben will

From our Multi Asset Boutique Stefan Meinhold (Client Portfolio Manager) and Dominik Zoerner (Multi Asset Income Portfolio Manager) will present their market assessment and elaborate on the prerequisites for a multi asset income strategy to become successful:
- diversify involved risks wisely
- manage the portfolio dynamically with a focus on risk management
- taking the perspective of a creditor, who is not greedy but likes to earn income and wants his invested money back

We assess the risks of a full-blown global trade war and its implication for the global economy and markets. While we consider this to be a low probability event, we present a road map for navigating it.

In this 45 minute webcast, Daniel Morris, Senior Strategist (Macro team), Guillermo Felices, Head of Research and Strategy (Multi-Asset team) and Chi Lo, Senior Economist – Greater China (Macro team), will present these distinct risk scenarios and discuss what investors can do to prepare for them.

Join us for this live webcast where our speakers will cover:

• Protectionism as a reversal of globalisation
• Two scenarios for an escalation of protectionism to trade wars
• How would an escalation to trade wars pan out?
• Economic and market implications
• Multi-asset strategy implications

Join our upcoming webinar with Didier Saint-Georges, Managing Director and Member of the Investment Committee, who will present our investment views and provide a summary of our current global investment strategy.

Participez à notre prochaine conférence en ligne avec Didier Saint-Georges, Managing Director et Membre du Comité d’Investissement, qui présentera notre vision des marchés et résumera notre stratégie d’investissement globale.

Dear Investor,

Please join us on Wednesday 25 April for our quarterly review call to discuss the performance of the Old Mutual Absolute Return Government Bond Fund (ARGBF) over the first three months of 2018.

Paul Shanta, senior portfolio manager, and Huw Davies, investment director, will update you on their analysis of the market environment, changes in investor sentiment and appetite for sovereign debt across the globe.

They will detail how the fund has navigated the last quarter, their outlook for the coming three months, and as always will be happy to take your questions.

Participant Dial In Number(s):
+44 (0) 20 3003 2666 - Standard International Access
0808 109 0700 - UK Toll Free
1 866 966 5335 - USA Toll Free

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