Center For Investment Excellence

Real estate debt: Opportunities persist in private markets

Jay DeWaltoff and Candace Chao, Portfolio Managers, Commercial Real Estate Debt, along with Neil Dey, Portfolio Manager, Securitized Products, discuss how the global pandemic has created dislocations across public and private real estate credit markets and how investors can capitalize on opportunities outside of sectors supported by government interventions. 

Generating income in a volatile world

Andrew Norelli, Portfolio Manager, Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities (GFICC), discusses finding income in a zero-rate world, identifying opportunities from a broader fixed income universe and the evolving role the asset class plays in client portfolios.

The future of value investing

Lee Spelman, Head of U.S. Equity, and Larry Playford, CIO, U.S. Equity Value Team, discuss the divergence in performance between growth and value, the widening of valuation spreads, sector outlooks and why they see opportunity in value investing in the future.

The State of the REIT Market

Bob Culver and Ken Statz of Security Capital Research & Management address emerging trends in the REIT market and the effects of social distancing and COVID-19 on commercial real estate investment opportunities.

ESG Implications from COVID-19

Samantha Azzarello, Global Market Strategist, Jennifer Wu, Global Head of Sustainable Investing, and Ben Hesse, Head of AWM Strategy & Business Development discuss how COVID-19 has accelerated the ESG agenda.

Factor investing in the wake of COVID-19

Yaz Romahi, Quantitative Beta Solutions CIO, Garrett Norman, Beta Specialist and Niels Schuehle, Head of Fixed Income Research, identify which factors have shown resiliency amidst COVID-19 and discuss investor considerations for determining the ideal mix of active and passive investments.

Opportunities in distressed credit amid the COVID-19 crisis

Leander Christofides, CO-CIO and Portfolio Manager, Global Special Situations Group, discusses how the COVID-19 crisis has changed the opportunity set in the distressed/event-driven credit space.

State of the Alternatives Market and Strategies for Volatile Times

Anton Pil, Global Head of Alternatives, addresses the impact of COVID-19 on alternative asset classes and shares real-time insights and research from J.P. Morgan’s on-the-ground real asset, private credit, private equity, hedge fund and liquid alternative teams across the globe.

Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions: COVID-19 – New cycle, new starting point

Prompted by the profound shock of COVID-19 to the economy and markets, J.P. Morgan Asset Management provided an off-cycle mark-to-market of our Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions return projections. John Bilton, Global Head of Multi-Asset Strategy, provides a deep dive on the changes and provide his outlook for the economy and markets.

Credit Diversifiers for Long Duration Portfolios

Steve Lear, U.S. Chief Investment Officer, Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities Group (GFICC), and Justin Rucker, GFICC Portfolio Manager, discuss the benefits of diversifying away from traditional corporate credit in liability-driven-investment strategies.