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The Outfront Series

The Outfront Series

A partnership between PGIM and Reuters Plus highlighting the most vital and trending topics and themes for institutional investors.

Hyperscale: The Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Revolution

The quality of infrastructure supporting the digital economy will help determine the winners and losers that emerge from the AI boom. Companies, countries and regions that embrace the hyperscale and AI revolution—particularly by developing the data centers and power supplies necessary to be competitive—will be in a stronger position for the future.

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Reimagining Cities: Balancing Debt, Demographics and Dreams

With their importance growing, cities must square the circle between creating thriving economies and meeting society’s needs. It’s a time for strategies that tackle key issues such as affordable housing, climate change and crime. Solving these issues will improve quality of life, boost investor confidence and foster economic growth. Cities must urgently reimagine themselves. It's a time for balancing debt, demographics and dreams.

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The Healthcare Revolution: A Prescription for Growth

It’s a defining moment for healthcare. From drug discovery to digital delivery, a once-in-a-generation revolution is promising to introduce new cures for some of the most intractable illnesses, as well as personalized treatment at a lower cost. Innovation is flourishing. Total pharmaceutical, MedTech and biotech patent applications increased from more than 197,800 globally in 2011 to almost 357,640 in 2021. For every drug or new medical device that’s approved, many patents are filed to protect intellectual property. New drugs have the potential to transform treatment of serious diseases, including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Yet not all healthcare companies will be winners. While the true innovators will prosper, others look likely to be left behind.

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Industrial Policy's Impact: Debt or Dividend?

In a race to sharpen their competitive edge, nations are re-deploying industrial policy. It’s a defining moment for economies. Nations are vying to be at the forefront of both the coming technology revolution and the green energy transition. Nothing short of economic leadership – as well as growth, energy security and well-paid jobs – is at stake. Yet coming at a time of high debts across many economies, the shift from free-market economics to industrial strategy brings risks.

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Generative AI

Finding the Competitive Edge Amid Creative Destruction

The rapid explosion of generative AI for general use has captured the global imagination with what the technology might enable. It’s expected to have a profound impact on economic growth by exponentially increasing productivity. That’s because everything today – from culture to consumer products – is a product of intelligence.

September 2023

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Credit Squeeze

From Distress And Dislocations To Steep Discounts

As credit conditions tighten, opportunities are emerging for smart investors. With banks cutting back on lending, pricing dislocations are appearing in financial markets. This looks like a repeat of previous economic cycles, when investors with patient capital have benefited from uncertainty.

June 2023

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A NEW ERA: FROM DEGLOBALIZATION TO REGIONALIZATION

Intense competition between great powers and mounting security issues are increasing risks to economic growth and investment returns.The world’s three big trading blocs are turning inwards, as they seek to promote strategic industries.

March 2023

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RECORD DEBT, ROCKETING RATES AND UNKNOWN FRAGILITIES

Total global debt reached a record high of $306 trillion in the first quarter of 2022, led by a surge in several emerging markets, as well as China and the United States, according to the Institute for International Finance. By the third quarter, it had dropped to $290 trillion but this remains a very high level. When debt reaches extreme levels, vulnerability to financial crises rises.

December 2022

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ESG AND GREENWASHING

Navigating the tide of fact and fiction in sustainable investing

With climate change set to make unbearable heatwaves more common, legislative climate action is gathering pace and there is a growing sense of urgency that “green investing” plays a vital role in the world’s vision to decarbonize. But is it able to live up to its hype? Or are we in danger of “fiddling” while the world burns?

October 2022

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INFLATION'S UNCERTAIN PATH

Energy and Food Shocks, Supply-Chain Bottlenecks, and Surging Wages

After four decades of low inflation, prices are rising swiftly in the U.S. and Europe, forcing interest rates up and threatening to undermine economic growth.

Inflation has surged because of wage pressures, soaring commodity prices and pandemic-induced supply-demand imbalances. War in Ukraine is amplifying these forces, notably through turbocharging the prices of energy, metals and food.

August 2022

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10 TRANSFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES POWERING THE 21ST CENTURY

A confluence of technological discoveries is opening up great potential for innovation. Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, robotics, genomics and space – all are transforming our world. Indeed, today the smartphone in your pocket has 100,000 times the processing power of the rocket that landed man on the Moon 52 years ago – and technological development is accelerating ever faster…

Explore the general-purpose technologies that will revolutionize industries and reshape the global economy. 

December 2021

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THE JOURNEY TO NET ZERO

FROM GREENFLATION TO GREENIUM

As big events like November 2021’s COP26 climate conference show, climate change is the most pressing challenge of our generation. More than 30,000 people from over 200 countries will fly to Glasgow to urgently debate the path to net zero. With a third of all investments now sustainable, the momentum towards decarbonizing the globe is building. For policymakers and investors, the duality of greenflation and the green asset premium lies at the heart of the zero-carbon transition. 

October 2021

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FRESH FRONTIERS IN THE HUNT

Powerful trends are driving higher-yielding opportunities in private markets

Asset classes such as private credit, real estate debt, infrastructure, and clean energy increasingly offer new opportunities for higher yields, due to powerful forces such as regulations reducing banks’ appetite for lending, the drive for new infrastructure, and the fight against climate change.

September 2021

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STRATEGIC COUPLING, TACTICAL DECOUPLING

HOW TO NAVIGATE THE NEXT DECADE OF U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS

China and the U.S. are at a pivotal moment in their trade relationship. Two polarized outcomes, and a spectrum between them, are possible: a decoupled relationship with long-term tariffs and an adversarial attitude underpinned by protectionism and mistrust; or a thawing in the geopolitical environment, leading to open trade, reduced tariffs and newfound cooperation.

June 2021

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