Macquarie Asset Management’s Outlook 2025: Plan for growth, prepare for volatility

Securing stability: The strategic role of infrastructure debt in US insurance portfolios

Market Perspectives webinar replay – US elections: Assessing the impact on financial sectors

Pathways Podcast - Global transport sector: On the road and flight path to net zero

Market Perspectives- Transforming tomorrow: Trends shaping data centres and AI

Perspectives - Infrastructure debt: First among equals

Pathways Podcast: Infrastructure debt: The evolving investment opportunity

Join speakers Daniel McCormack, Harlan Cherniak, and Gurjit Orjela for an insightful discussion on the current state and outlook of infrastructure debt.

A turning tide: what lower interest rates could mean for listed real estate

Market Perspectives - Global real estate: Approaching the turn Replay

Macquarie - To hold or to fold?

Global real estate: Approaching the turn

Select real estate opportunities emerging in 2024

In this insight, we provide analysis of the current real estate landscape and where opportunities in private markets may be emerging as pricing adjusts, including in the logistics sector.

A retightening of policy mix: Impact on growth and inflation

Going into 2024, our analysis for Issue 03 of the Fixed Income Strategic Forum 2023 suggests the current policy mix of easier fiscal policy and tighter monetary policy may revert to an overall tighter stance, mainly due to a gradual diminishing of the fiscal policy impulse while the monetary policy stance remains tight.  In this insight, we delve deeper into these current macroeconomic trends and, more importantly, how their projected trajectories will affect the growth and inflation outlook into 2024.

Fixed Income Strategic Forum 2023 - Higher rates, tighter credit, and less liquidity matter

Since Issue 02 in May, financial markets have continued to perform well, dismissing the likelihood of recession and seemingly embracing the soft-landing or even no-landing scenario. However, upon examination of the evidence in September for Issue 03, we are of the view that the question is not if a recession will occur but rather when it will occur and how hard it will be. 

Market Perspectives webinar replay - Outlook 2024: A world in transition

After the most aggressive monetary policy tightening cycle in more than 40 years and bond yields at levels not seen since 1979, the world’s major developed economies are still standing.

Pathways: Private infrastructure valuations: Relative value macroeconomic drivers and implications for investors

Using a large dataset of more than 1,000 transactions, we have derived a time series of private infrastructure valuations. This allows us to make direct comparisons with valuations in listed equity markets.

Market Perspectives – Outlook 2024: A world in transition

After the most aggressive monetary policy tightening cycle in over 40 years and bond yields at levels not seen since 1979, the world’s major developed economies are still standing. At the same time, there have been powerful structural changes in recent year in how the globally economy behaves. Understanding these deep forces and how they intersect with the cycle will be crucial to return delivery in the coming years. Join us for an in-depth discussion on the following topics:

Market Perspectives webinar replay – US real estate: Opportunity amid the volatility

With bond yields rising recently, interest rates remain a headwind for private real assets, including real estate. But this dislocation is creating opportunities as property pricing adjusts, including in sectors with solid fundamentals where development pipelines are under pressure.

Market Perspectives - US real estate: Opportunity amid the volatility

With bond yields rising recently, interest rates remain a headwind for private real assets, including real estate. But this dislocation is creating opportunities as property pricing adjusts, including in sectors with solid fundamentals where development pipelines are under pressure. Register now to hear Macquarie Asset Management’s panel of experts discuss the outlook for US real estate, how it compares with other markets, and where opportunities may be emerging.

Pathways Podcast: Infrastructure valuation: New tools for the toolkit

Valuations for private infrastructure investment have long been murky and at times challenging to compare to other asset types. Using a large dataset of more than 1,000 transactions, Macquarie research has derived a time series of private infrastructure valuations to gain new insights.

Episode 159: Global Private Placements Deconstructed

Alex Alston is the Division Director and Co-Head of Private Placements at Macquarie Asset Management.

Pathways Podcast: Instant basket of infrastructure: The case for holding secondaries

Wandy Hoh, Head of the Infrastructure Secondaries business at Macquarie joins the show to discuss infrastructure secondaries and how they are creating liquidity for investors while creating new opportunities to enter the market

Fixed Income Strategic Forum 2023 – Delayed reaction, liquidity contraction

We believe a recession is likely by the end of 2023, but the real question is, will financial markets have a soft or hard landing?

Integrating public and private credit to build better portfolios

Views on portfolio construction are evolving as yields move into a rising rate environment. By expanding the investable universe and understanding what drives asset classes, investors can gain greater confidence that risk is distributed across their investment portfolios.

Navigating to Net Zero

In December 2020, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) announced a commitment to manage its portfolio in line with global net zero emissions by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement goal.

Pathways – Real Assets Outlook 2023

Inflation is likely to fall over the next 12 months as supply chains normalise, commodity markets realign, and aggregate demand softens. But, in our view, inflation is unlikely to fall back to central bank targets quickly.

Finding value in dislocated real estate markets

2022 was characterised as a year of heightened macroeconomic uncertainty spurred by geopolitics, rising interest rates, and growing inflation. These factors, combined with the rising cost of capital, have driven dislocation and mispricing in the global real estate market.

The Case for Infrastructure

Infrastructure has been growing in popularity in recent years, with unlisted infrastructure funds raising a record $US125 billion of capital in 2021. The increasing appetite from institutional investors could be explained by its impressive risk-adjusted return delivery as well as its attractive characteristics.