Standard Life Investments build out multi-asset structuring team

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Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, has added to its Multi-Asset Investing (MAI) Structuring team with the appointment of Mathias Marta as a Quantitative Investment Director. Mathias was previously

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Standard Life Investments announces senior hire for Insurance Solutions team

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Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, has announced the appointment of Richard Pereira as Investment Director within the Insurance Solutions team. He will be based in London and report

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Time for a raise?

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Low pay and rising inequality were policy challenges even before the onset of the financial crisis, and these issues have become more pertinent after the downturn. Against this backdrop, the

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Keep control

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Developed Asia has been front and centre in the growth of global household sector debt over the last decade, with indebtedness in Australia, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore now comparable

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Commodity chameleon

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Given a diversity of factor endowment and a relatively high openness to trade, the rebound in commodity prices over the last 12 months has had contrasting effects on economies within

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Weekly economic briefing – All together now

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The global economy has stayed true to its improving course with survey and activity measures edging higher. However, how much of the upturn is now in the rear view mirror?

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What makes politics tick? Understanding political risk in markets

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Accounting for political risk has traditionally been viewed as more relevant when investing in emerging rather than developed markets. However, after the electoral upsets of 2016 and the rise of

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Australia the preferred 2017 commercial real estate market in Asia Pacific

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Global asset manager, Standard Life Investments (SLI) expects Sydney and Melbourne office space to be the top performers in Asia Pacific commercial real estate in 2017. In SLI’s Q1 Real

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How low can you go?

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One of the few bright spots in the global economy over recent years has been a relatively broad-based improvement in labour markets. Between the end of 2014 and 2016 unemployment

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Winning momentum

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The global economy is on a ‘hot streak’, with a string of positive data surprises feeding expectations for further strengthening. But is momentum really as strong as it first appears?

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