Investments

When investors recall the third quarter of 2018, many may cite the fractures that occurred in certain corners of the fixed income market. In its fourth-quarter outlook, PGIM Fixed Income evaluates the extent of the damage, the factors that contributed to the periodic volatility, how these issues may unfold going forward, and the nature of the opportunities that lie ahead.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews David Hunt, president and chief executive officer of Prudential Financial Inc.’s global investment management business, PGIM.

Christy Hill has joined PGIM Real Estate as a managing director and head of Americas Asset Management to lead and implement the company’s asset management strategy for investments in the United States and Latin America.

Earlier this year, global economic growth appeared to be coasting, with all major economies growing in unison for the first time since 2010. However, paths now appear to be diverging, shifted by escalating trade tensions, Italian politics and pockets of emerging market turmoil, according to QMA’s Q3 2018 Outlook & Review.

A dramatic sell-off has made the Turkish lira cheaper on an inflation-adjusted basis than it has been since the 1990s, but there are good reasons to avoid exposure to Turkish markets until an orthodox policy response from the government is forthcoming, according to PGIM Fixed Income’s macroeconomic team.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY, August 16, 2018 – PGIM Real Estate and Frankfurter Gewerbeimmobilien GmbH (FGI) have signed an agreement with TRIUVA on the future sale of Junghof Plaza, a 33,000-square-meter mixed-use redevelopment in Frankfurt. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, Inc., the asset management arm of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). FGI is an owner-led investor and real estate developer in the residential, retail, hotel and office sectors.

After a half year of ongoing global uncertainty, investors continue to find varied—and perhaps mixed—metaphors to explain the evolving fixed income landscape, according to this edition of PGIM Fixed Income’s Quarterly Outlook.

The historic summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in Singapore ended with impressive imagery; however, the joint statement by President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un seemed short on details. In “Looking Ahead After the U.S.-North Korea Summit,” Gerwin Bell, Ph.D., lead economist for Asia on PGIM Fixed Income’s Global Macroeconomic Research Team, and Mehill Marku, portfolio manager for PGIM Fixed Income’s Foreign Exchange Team, examine two competing schools of thought concerning how the delicate relationship between the two countries may evolve.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2018 – PGIM Real Estate has formed a joint venture with a public pension fund client of CityView to acquire a 50 percent interest in a portfolio of five Class A multifamily properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. The portfolio is valued at approximately $500 million. PGIM Real Estate, acting on behalf of an institutional real estate investor, is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the $1 trillion global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).

NEWARK, N.J., June 11, 2018 – Stephen O’Keeffe has joined PGIM Real Estate as an executive director, responsible for sourcing real estate debt investments and managing relationships with prospective borrowers and partners in Australia.