05/10/2022
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Investment Outlook
Global Investment Views - October 2022
The GIV document elaborates on the latest views, convictions and outlook of our Global CIOs, different Investment Platforms and Macro-Strategy teams.
05/10/2022
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Pension Funds
Retirement
Amundi Pension Funds Letter - Special Edition: UK LDI Crisis
Given the yield increases at the announcement of the UK accommodative mini-budget a week ago, pension schemes suffered a massive liquidity crisis related to their leveraged LDI strategies.
04/10/2022
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Asset Allocation
Fast Filtering with Large Option Panels: Implications for Asset Pricing
The cross-section of options holds great promise for identifying return distributions and risk premia, but estimating dynamic option valuation models with latent state variables is challenging when using large option panels. We propose a particle MCMC framework with a novel filtering approach and illustrate our method by estimating workhorse index option pricing models.
30/09/2022
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Geopolitics
Upheaval in the global FX regime
The energy and inflation crises have uncovered cracks in the long-standing global foreign exchange regime. A new approach to currency management is required to face the immediate challenges, and the rise of an alternative regime.
30/09/2022
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Geopolitics
Global foreign exchange regime faces winds of change
Dollar strength is causing strains, even in developed countries like Japan and Britain. Countries will have to intervene to fix misalignments in currency markets.
28/09/2022
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Economy & Markets
Geopolitics
UK market turmoil points towards further volatility in global currencies
Understand recent market reaction to the UK budget proposal that had significant market impact on the Sterling and look into what are the implications on global currencies.
28/09/2022
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Fixed Income
Asset Allocation
Time to refocus on bonds - Rethinking portfolios after the great repricing
Time to refocus on bonds - Rethinking portfolios after the great repricing
27/09/2022
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Economy & Markets
Geopolitics
Italy election: no major surprise from the polls, maybe positive for markets
Election outcome and political scenario: The centre-right coalition won Italy’s general election on 25 September, with approximately 44% of votes.
23/09/2022
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Central Banks
Economy & Markets
20-21 September FOMC meeting: the move into restrictive territory
Understanding the outcome of the July FOMC meeting and its market and implications.