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Investment Perspectives: The search for yield - cyclical or structural?

Since the recovery from the financial crisis, a common theme has been that artificially low interest rates* have forced investors to search for yield, which in turn has resulted in overpriced assets.

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This narrative has been supported by the fact yield sectors, such as Global Real Estate, significantly outperformed the broader global equity indices in 2014 by approximately 10% (in USD terms).