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The desire to integrate values and investment decisions has long been important to investors and is a movement that has gained permanency. Research shows that when implemented thoughtfully with active management, impact investing can achieve social goals, as well as produce competitive and even excess returns over a benchmark. A deep and growing fi...

To date, the slow national recovery in the office sector has been driven largely by negative forces such as high unemployment rates and owner desires to reduce operating costs. Today, however, there exists an opportunity to counterbalance those negative influences by understanding the technological, generational a...

Farmland is increasingly gaining traction as an attractive long-term investment option for sophisticated and capital rich investors. Direct investments in farmland have historically provided a healthy and relatively stable level of current income, a compelling risk-adjusted rate of capital appreciation, an effective inflation hedge, and a material ...

Currency risk is a fact of life for European families. Today even the simplest diversified portfolios include foreign currency exposures. Many investors find it tempting to ignore currency risk, believing that it will all “even out in the end.” But this is not an option for most families who need to draw down funds from the portfolio to...

While many investors equate “access constrained” to “top performing,” quantitative data debunk the assumption that access-constrained managers are the best performers. If you look at the top-performing funds across the last decade, you quickly realize that ‘access constrained’ or popularity are not correlated to ...

Deutsche Bank's Year-end Outlook provides an interview with Larry Adam, CIO and Chief Investment Strategist - Americas. Topics include the state of the U.S. economy and the major drivers of economic growth, the outlook for interest rates and its effect on stock, bond and emerging markets.

The author provides a paper on medical office investing which begins by sizing the Medical Office Building (MOB) investment universe and contrasting it with the commercial office sector. Supply and demand fundamentals are explored in the context of emerging trends in the delivery of U.S. healthcare. Returns, pricing and ot...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (Division) issued a no-action letter providing family offices relief from commodity trading advisor registration, in connection with advisory services they provide to family clients.In order to receive relief, a family office must submit a claim...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (Division) issued a no-action letter providing family offices relief from commodity trading advisor registration, in connection with advisory services they provide to family clients. As a result, a qualifying family office will be exempt from&nb...

In recent years, impact investing has captured the attention of leaders in finance, philanthropy, business, and government seeking innovative ways to help solve some of society’s most pressing issues. It harnesses the efficiency and discipline of private capital markets to address the root causes o...

Creating a well-diversified portfolio of stocks or bonds (or whatever financial assets or vehicles seem appealing and fit a client’s profile) is certainly a viable option and one that may dampen volatility and could prevent any one bad idea from having an outsized impact on a portfolio. Alas, this decision is not without tradeoffs. Diver...

In terms of life of life span and medical need, a close look at the underlying numbers reveals a sharp disparity between developed and developing regions; particularly in poorer areas worldwide. Some differences are so stark, in fact, that there is what might be called a global healthcare divide. And for investors it’s a division worth unders...

We’re in the early stages of what stands to be an extended business cycle. We’re calling the cycle the era of innovation, and it has some definite characteristics. We’re seeing aggressive technological advancement, a manufacturing renaissance, easier access to liquidity and cash-rich entities spanning the globe, supply-demand mism...

Over the past several years, investors have experienced a challenging investment environment. We believe a key element in building a sustainable investment strategy is to “invest with purpose” and the first step in doing so is to understand exactly what each investor is trying to achieve with their wealth. This paper highlights and delv...

Employee Stock Ownership Plans, or ESOPs, have been used as succession planning tools for family-owned businesses for 40 years. Ownership succession planning is critically important in a family-owned business. There are many issues to review in succession planning and an ESOP should always be considered. An ESOP may be the ideal solution for the co...