Verizon Announces $5.9B Pension Transfer
Insurers Prudential and RGA Reinsurance will assume obligations for 56,000 pensioners who are already receiving benefits.
Risk
Solid 4Q Earnings Tee Up Expectations for Even Better Days Ahead
Projections are for corporate profits to really burgeon in 2024, despite some downbeat economic outlooks.
Leveraged Loan Returns Rise Even as Credit Quality Worsens
The solid economy and expected rate drops are powering the risky asset class higher, Ned Davis reports.
Water Utility Equities Could Be Strong Performers Amid Volatile Market
Because the need for clean water is both universal and not close to being solved, publicly traded water utilities can be excellent low-risk investments.
How Water Scarcity Is Shifting the Investment Landscape
Understanding the cost of water, like other business inputs, is ‘critical’ to the investment process across different sectors and asset classes.
Institutional Investor Group Urges Asset Managers to Deliver on Climate Strategies
A U.N.-backed alliance with $9.5 trillion in AUM warns that the entire global economic system is at risk from climate change.
What Could Go Wrong? 5 Black Swan Scenarios for 2024
BCA Research sketches out how such events could roil the markets—and the world.
Is Private Credit Starting to Show Some Stress?
A pair of global lenders have disclosed bad private credit deals in recent weeks, spotlighting the need for due diligence in the sector.
Australia’s Pensions Regulator Launches Project on Unlisted Assets
The APRA is putting under review its practices for valuation of unlisted assets, including private equity, commercial real estate and infrastructure.
AI Privacy, ESG Alts and Other Investing Themes for 2024
ISS unit lists 10 trends that sustainability-oriented investors should watch.
What if the Economy Has a No-Landing Outcome?
Everyone expects a soft landing, but Ned Davis sketches how that felicitous result might not happen.
Private Credit Is Changing Everything, Even Bankruptcy
Restructuring professionals report an uptick in both restructuring activity and private equity sponsors considering turning indebted businesses over to their lenders.
Investors’ Interest Rate Expectations Unrealistic, per NEPC
After many years of low borrowing costs, too many people have the delusion that these will return, NEPC warns.
Yield Curve Will Right Itself, Finally, but Not Until Year-End, Experts Say
Next question: What happened to the inverted arc’s role as a recession portent?
Will Red Sea Attacks on Cargo Ships Spark Inflation?
Only to a minor degree, says LPL Financial—goods prices already are low, so there’s a cushion.