
Center For Investment Excellence
The Center for Investment Excellence features educational insights across asset classes and investment themes designed to give you the tools you need to empower better decisions and build stronger portfolios.
Latest episodes

Jul 6, 2020 • 26min
How Consumer Behavior Is Changing
Shane Duffy, Portfolio Manager in the International Equity Group, and Mark Ferguson, Global Head of Research for Equities, discuss the recent shift in consumer preferences including: Working from Home, the adoption of online alternatives and increased consumer savings.

Jun 30, 2020 • 33min
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.

Jun 23, 2020 • 29min
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.

Jun 22, 2020 • 36min
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.

Jun 17, 2020 • 39min
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.

Jun 15, 2020 • 44min
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.

Jun 9, 2020 • 30min
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.

Jun 4, 2020 • 41min
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.

May 27, 2020 • 33min
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.

May 22, 2020 • 36min
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.