MyFolio update

We hope you can join us for our live investment seminar on the 8 September focusing on our Ever-changing World. You will hear from a panel of experts, hosted by Caroline Miller, UK Distribution Director, who will be discussing the current climate that we find ourselves in, what has happened since Covid-19 arrived, where we find ourselves now and what the future might look like in this uncertain environment.

Covid-19 has accentuated and accelerated many of the key drivers in the industrial and logistics markets. The way we live has been abruptly, and possibly permanently, changed as people have been forced into finding new ways to source goods and amenities. While this has been positive in some respects for logistics demand, many supply chains have been disrupted and all industrial tenants are going through a massive stress test on their business models.

Hear from our experts about the rising opportunities in Logistics:

Anne Breen, Global Head of Real Estate Investment Strategy
Craig Wright, Senior Research Analyst

A review of hedge fund and liquid alternative performance over Q2 including AUM flow over the year. An overview of our hedge fund outlook and focus on the opportunity set for stock picking hedge funds.

We hope you can join us for our live Q&A session with our Fixed Income portfolio managers as they provide a brief update on the Total Return Credit Fund, Strategic Bond Fund and also the Emerging Market Debt Fund and answer any questions that you put to them.

Market update and outlook

Please join us to hear an update from Kenneth McMillan, Investment Manager, and Scott Kay, Senior Investment Specialist, covering key themes within the portfolio and a summary of current positions and outlook.

There will be an opportunity to submit questions during the webcast.

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Market review and outlook

Listen to an update from Gerry Fowler, Investment Director of Global Multi-Asset Strategies, discussing the key themes within the Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) portfolio, how the fund has performed during the quarter and providing a summary of our current positions as we duck dive through the wave and rise up into the calm sea.

With many equity markets appearing to be socially distanced from the economic havoc wreaked by global lockdown, the need for diversification is instinctive for seasoned investors fearing a reckoning that is yet to come. Others argue that governments and central banks can endlessly sterilise souring market sentiment. At some point just one of these views will prove correct.

Irrespective of these short-term dynamics, multi-asset portfolios achieving genuine diversification have long offered improved risk adjusted returns. So how can we allocate assets effectively to thrive in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment? Here to discuss the key issues with you are leading managers from across our distinct multi-asset portfolio management teams, who each bring a unique perspective.

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European Corporate Bond Fund Q2 Update with Felix Freund and Josef Helmes

We believe the COVID-19 crisis has mostly accelerated trends that were already underway prior to the pandemic, with flexibility being the key focus - 1) flexible work arrangements, and 2) flexible workspace solutions.

Listen to our panel of experts discuss the office market, what we expect over the long-term, competition for tenants and the why investor would benefit from value-add services to differentiate.

Speakers:
Anne Breen, Head of Investment Strategy (Real Estate)
Min-Chow Sai, Head of Asia & N.America Real Estate Investment Strategy
Jason Baggaley, Real Estate Fund Manager

Global Corporate Bond Fund Q2 Update with Craig MacDonald

Join us for episode 13 of our live coronavirus caution webinar series. As lockdowns continue to ease an economic recovery has begun. How confident can we be that this recovery will have legs? And how should macro investors play that recovery considering the rally in risk assets that has already occurred amid the long-term structural challenges that have not gone away?

You will have the opportunity to ask questions to our panel.

Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist
Paul Diggle, Senior Economist ASI Research Institute
Gerry Fowler, Investment Director Multi Asset

We look forward to an interesting discussion and to addressing your questions and concerns

Register now for our next ASI breakfast briefing on the Wednesday 24 June at 9-10:15am (GMT). This month they will focus on our outlook for the next 18 months, the opportunities we see in fixed income markets, and how strategies, like the Total Return Credit Fund, could be placed to perform in the coming months.

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Join episode 12 of our live webinars with:

•Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist
•Devan Kaloo, Global Head of Equities
•Fiona Manning, Investment Director, GEM

The coronavirus pandemic has caused turmoil throughout the global economy and companies’ resilience is being severely tested. We believe it’s a time when good governance, equitable social policies and strong environmental credentials will prove their worth. How can we make sure companies continue to allocate their capital appropriately against a challenging economic background?

Our experts discuss these topics and look at the performance of ESG factors amid recent market volatility.

Euan Anderson, Investment Specialist and Svitlana Gubriy, Head of Global REIT Fund, discuss how global REIT's landscape has changed throughout these unprecedented times and outline some of the structural changes to the fund and where opportunities may lie.

The European equity market is deep, liquid and complex. Following the spread of Covid-19 across the western world, European equity investors are looking to determine the impact on European companies' earnings, dividends and share prices.

Join us for episode 11 of our live Coronavirus webinars on Emerging Market and Asian debt. During this session our experts will share their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities in these debt markets following the COVID-19 sell-off.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions to our panel.

Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist
Brett Diment, Global Head of Emerging Market Debt
Adam McCabe, Head of Fixed Income, Asia and Australia

We look forward to an interesting discussion and to addressing your questions and concerns

Register now for our second ASI breakfast briefing on Wednesday 27 of May between 9-10:15am (GMT). This will focus on the opportunities we see in the equity market coming out of this crisis, looking at both large and smaller companies.