David Roberts and Alex Ralph explain why counting bonds can create the illusion of diversification.
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Our views on the latest industry developments, including insights on how these may affect your investments.
Simplicity, elegance and investing
Complexity is easy to add and hard to remove. Tom Caddick argues that the best investment boutiques see the discipline of stripping it aw...
The human advantage in an AI-powered industry
Future asset management distribution models will look very different. Successful investment firms will have humble leaders who effectivel...
Boutiques and the AI edge
Scale is often touted as an asset manager’s most significant moat. However, as Tom Caddick argues, artificial intelligence challenges thi...
Alpha & Accountability
In large organisations, responsibility can drain into accountabilit...
Why long-term investors
In over two decades of managing investments, I have never once read a headline that indicated everything is fine and markets are ticking ...
When the income does the heavy lifting
For all the talk of turmoil in bond markets, yields have barely moved. With high-quality paper paying mid-single digits, investors don’t ...
Time to read: 4 min
Exclusions over illusions
An investment process is defined as much by what it refuses to hold as by what it buys. And with high-quality yields at levels not seen i...
In credit, liquidity is easy to overestimate
Liquidity is often treated as a constant in public markets, something investors can rely on. Recent events suggest a more complex reality...
What private credit's growing pains reveal
With defaults, concentration risk and redemptions rising in private credit, the structural advantages of public fixed income – transparen...
Product innovation's dirty secret
Our industry has a predictable pattern. Someone launches a product....
The Subtraction Advantage
Big firms add people, products and process to reduce risk. Boutiques can win by removing the constraints that can kill your edge, and als...
Quality investing isn’t dead.
Backward-looking definitions of quality offer investors false comfort. A more durable approach requires a sharper focus on resilience, va...
Time to read: 4 min
Nedgroup Investments Media Roundtable:
With consensus views already established for 2026, Nedgroup Investments gathered journalists in London for a different kind of outlook, f...
Batton Change:
Over the past two decades, we watched Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone and Apple go on to sell more than three billion of them. A small re...
Culture will trump strategy
In an industry being reshaped by fee pressure, operating complexity and AI, strategy alone won’t deliver an edge. Apiramy Jeyarajah argue...
The virtues of small
The investment industry still equates scale with success. But the e...
The Case for Boutique Asset Managers
Smaller, specialist firms offer agility, deep expertise, and a client-first mindset - qualities we think tend to lead to outperformance.
Financing the AI Boom
A look at the AI spending boom and how it affects credit investors.
Time to read: 5 min
Going for long-term growth: What we look for
In today’s environment of elevated uncertainty and short-term noise, the Nedgroup Investments Contrarian Value Equity Fund offers a clear...
Turning volatility into opportunity
As interest rate expectations continue to shift across G7 economies, bond markets have responded with sharp and often unpredictable moves...
Private Credit: Popular, Complex
Our Global Strategic Bond Fund has material constraints hard coded into its prospectus - which provide comfort in times of stress.
Outlook for bonds in Q4 2025
David Roberts, Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Strategic Bond Fu...
Frontier Markets:
Jeremy Clarkson is best known as the outspoken presenter of Top Gear, but more recently he has surprised audiences with Clarkson’s Farm, ...
UK Government Bonds
An Active manager has had at least 9 opportunities to make double the return of a passive alternative.
Time to read: 1 min
Why I'm buying Japanese Government Bonds
The Japanese sovereign bond market makes up around 15% of the Global Bond market yet many investors have studiously avoided it - until now.
Winning by Not Losing
Brian Selmo recently joined Morningstar’s The Long View podcast to share deep insights into the team’s investment philosophy and process.
The Humble Brag
The personal luxury goods industry has compounded at 6% annually over the past 15 years, consistently outpacing global GDP.
Asset Management is a Human Business
In an industry increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and d...
Is now the time to buy US Treasuries?
Off the back of weak US CPI data, the UST market has rallied. Perhaps the death of American assets has been exaggerated?
Lessons from history
The sharp steepening of the US yield curve, where 30-year bond yields now exceed 5-year yields by over 1%, signals rising investor concer...
Time to read: 2 min
The water paradox
Tackling the global water crisis requires a multifaceted approach that integrates infrastructure development, technological innovation, g...
Our Global Flexible Fund wins again
The Nedgroup Investments Global Flexible Fund has won the 2025 Lipper Award in Europe, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Is gold indestructible?
Another quarter closes and we all look to which assets flew and which flagged. It was the somewhat heavy, ungainly gold that was one of ...
Nedgroup Investments in the news
In times of market volatility we believe in communicating quickly a...
Is the US uninvestable?
Amidst political and economic uncertainties, co-portfolio manager of our Global Strategic Bond discusses the potential risks of US Treasu...
Global Bonds
The significance of Chinese and Japanese bonds in the global market is on the rise. In this article, we delve into the challenges and opp...
Time to read: 6 min
US small caps simply cannot be ignored
Louis Hutchings, multi-asset investment analyst at Nedgroup, on the enduring appeal of US small caps.
Ralph and Jeyarajah on the boutique advantage
Read this published article that brings the story of the return of Roberts and Ralph to life.
Value versus growth
People often hear value investing and assume it’s just an investmen...
Is this the end of the cash party?
Like moths to a flame, soaring cash yields have seduced retail investors into pouring more than US$1 trillion in money market funds over ...
Subsequent Lessons from the Past, Insights ...
Reflecting on the past two decades in the investment industry, and the significant changes that have occurred, can be extremely useful in...
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When the going gets tough… find out what ki...
As at the end of the third quarter, global equities were down 25% for the year, global property was down almost 30% and global bonds (tra...
Biodiversity dominating the ESG agenda in 2022
Biodiversity, the most complex and intricate feature of life on earth, is rapidly capturing the attention of the asset management industr...
How we find the top investment managers in ...
Identifying good, independent managers has been central to our success over the past two decades.
ESG investing in emerging markets
Dr Mark Mobius, the Founding Partner of Mobius Capital Partners, di...
REITS: Vaccines, Recovery & Value
Marco Colantonio from Resolution Capital, the Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Property Fund, provides an overview of...
An exceptionally unexceptional year
Steven Romick from First Pacific Advisors, co-Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Flexible Fund, shares how the Fund far...
Time to read: 5 min
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