Name: Small- and mid-cap equities: a compelling long-term opportunity
Start: 2021-03-30T08:00:00Z
End: 2021-03-30T08:01:09.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.4

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Listen to our latest discussion on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist is joined by Devan Kaloo, Global Head of Public Markets, Brett Diment, Global Head of Emerging Market Debt and Edward Glossop, Emerging Market Economist to talk about the geopolitical and macroeconomic implications and what this will mean to all markets and investors.

Russia and Ukraine: The changing situation - live discussion with Q&A

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Emerging market investors face a number of headwinds. Inflation is high and climbing. Central banks, both in emerging markets and globally, are tightening policy. The Chinese economy has slowed, as the country’s zero-Covid-19 policy takes its toll and regulations hit home. The geopolitical landscape remains a morass. So, the question is: do emerging markets make a compelling long term investment?

In our view, 2022 will undoubtedly be a challenging environment for investors. However, valuations in both equity and bond markets have already priced in these headwinds to a large extent. As such, we believe this creates an attractive environment for diligent investors with proven research and selection skills.

Listen to our experts while they discuss what they’ve learnt through their 35 years on-the-ground-experience of investing in emerging markets. Learn about how markets and companies have been transforming, and the evolution of investing strategies over time. We will also take  a closer look at the growing importance of ESG factors in the emerging market investing, particularly with respect to seeking alignment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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European Corporate Bond Fund Q4 Update

European Corporate Bond Fund Q3 Update

Offices have been the cornerstone of our economic system for decades and their use and design has never been uniform or static. Now more so than ever, their role and therefore their design is under immense pressure to adapt to flexible working arrangements and the requirement to achieve much greater levels of energy efficiency. Delivering productive office spaces, enhancing the occupier experience and being ahead of the curve in meeting sustainability targets will be key to the creation of long term value in office assets.
 
ASI is at the forefront of research on this topic. Generating attractive risk-adjusted returns in the office sector will require a greater emphasis on future-proofing assets.  
 
FACTS is our proprietary framework for evaluating the future-fitness of offices.
 
              Flexibility – Amenity – Connectivity – Technology - Sustainability
 
Join ASI and Sam Carson, Head of Sustainability, Valuations Advisory Services at CBRE, for a webinar to be held on 23 September 2021 at 11am CET.  Our expert panel will host an insightful discussion covering the following dynamics:
How can fund  managers address the obsolescence of their office holdings over the next several years? 
Occupiers and investors are being driven by carbon reduction: what is the expected return on the cost of a future-fit refurbishment? 
When can investors expect to see value-add opportunities arise?

Creating value in offices in a post-Covid, low carbon world

David Bint, Multi-Asset Investment Specialist will have a discussion with Scott Smith, Head of Dynamic Multi-Asset on the Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Fund. They will discuss what the performance has been like during Q2, what changes have happened in the portfolio and then give an outlook for Q3 2021.

Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Q2 2021 Update

European Corporate Bond Fund Q2 Update with Felix Freund and Vicki Cockbain

European Corporate Bond Fund Q2 Update

Join us for our webinar where David Bint, Multi-Asset Investment Specialist will host a discussion with Gerry Fowler, Investment Director of Global Multi-Asset Strategies and Katy Forbes, Head of Absolute Return.

The 3 topics that they are going to cover in this webcast are: 

- The key themes within the Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) portfolio
- How the fund has performed during the quarter
- Providing a summary of our current positions and outlook for Q2 2021.

There will be the opportunity to ask questions. Unstructured CPD certificates will be available to access from the attachments after the webinar.

Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Q1 2021 update

Global Corporate Bond Fund Q1 Update with Craig MacDonald

Global Corporate Bond Fund Q1 Update

European Corporate Bond Fund Q1 Update with Felix Freund and Josef Helmes

European Corporate Bond Fund Q1 Update

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Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Q4 2020 update

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Join ASI for a live hedge fund review and outlook. Duncan Moir will recap hedge fund and liquid alternative benchmark performance in the third quarter. Darren Wolf, ASI’s alternatives global head of investments will discuss the resurgence in stock picking and provide some insight into the team’s hedge fund outlook for 2021.

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Join us live as we discuss the results of the US election. Our Chief Economist, Jeremy Lawson and our Senior Global Economist, James McCann will be joined by a panel of experts across Multi-Asset, US Equities and Emerging Markets to talk you through the impacts of the presidential election result. Our panel will share research and discuss their thoughts to help provide you with insight during these unprecedented times. Find out what the implications are for investors and ask your questions to our panel of experts.

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During this seminar we looked to explore and debate the practicalities related to some of the major challenges the world is facing (climate change, the social inequality gap, unsustainable production and consumption to name a few) with attention centred on implementation. In order to shed light on and debate these topics, we invited a number of highly respected guest speakers to share their experiences and views.

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As the world tentatively emerges from Covid-19 lockdown, we start to look to the future. There are many questions to answer: what will be the economic fallout from the crisis? What are the pandemic’s inflationary consequences? Will the crisis strengthen or weaken countries’ willingness to work together? Is this the final nail in the coffin for globalisation? And what does all this mean for investors?

Please join us for our mid-year events, where our panel experts will address these questions and more.

Agenda: 
•	Responsible Investment and Covid-19 - Amanda Young, Global Head of Responsible Investment
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•	Economic Infrastructure: Robust performance in challenging times - Roger Pim, Senior Investment Director, Infrastructure
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As the world tentatively emerges from Covid-19 lockdown, we start to look to the future. There are many questions to answer: what will be the economic fallout from the crisis? What are the pandemic’s inflationary consequences? Will the crisis strengthen or weaken countries’ willingness to work together? Is this the final nail in the coffin for globalisation? And what does all this mean for investors?

Please join us for our mid-year events, where our panel experts will address these questions and more.

Agenda: 
•	The long-term economic and political ramifications of the Coronavirus Crisis - Paul Diggle, Senior Economist  
•	European equities: A stock pickers market - Ben Ritchie, Head of European Equities
•	EMD following the Covid-19 shock - Brett Diment, Head of Global Emerging Market Debt
•	The rise of China: Part 2  - Donald Amstad, COO – APAC Distribution & Head of Investment Specialists – APAC

Mid-year outlook: Emerging from the depths (8 June)

Many investors avoid smaller companies because they believe they are too risky. We believe this is a mistake. Not only have global smallers been less risky that their Europe ex-UK large-cap equivalents – they have also outperformed over most timeframes and geographies*. 

That’s why, as we enter a post-pandemic world, we think investors should consider a long-term allocation to the asset class as part of their wider portfolios.

Why invest in smaller companies?
The case for smaller companies is strong. This includes compelling relative valuations, diversification benefits and a wealth of high-quality stocks from across the corporate world. However, this is a huge, under-researched universe. Finding the right opportunities requires resources, experience and a global reach.

That’s why we invite you to our webinar. Here, smaller-company specialists Graham McCraw and Kirsty Desson will layout the case for the asset-class. This includes where they are seeing the best opportunities – and what these could mean for your portfolios.

There will also be an opportunity to ask any questions you have on this topic and more.

* MSCI All Country World Index and MSCI All Country World Small Cap Index. Source: Aberdeen Standard Investments, 01 January 2001 to 31 December 2020, in GBP

Small- and mid-cap equities: a compelling long-term opportunity

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