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Feb 10, 2026 Artificial Intelligence

Hunger games: The data centre race for power, land and water

By: Michael Lewis

Artificial Intelligence, Commodities, ESG
Dec 16, 2025 European Transformation

Vorsprung durch Technik: Germany’s next industrial revolution

By: Michael Lewis, Ian Bigelow

European Transformation, ESG
Nov 15, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Mr. Market…Is That Really You?

By: Robert Bush

"One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority" - Napolean Bonaparte

Oct 29, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Energy & nature investor quarterly

By: Michael Lewis, Steffen Kutscher

Quarterly highlight: The elusive “Peak Oil” scenario

ESG
Oct 15, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Peeking Through the Hedge

By: Robert Bush

"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk" - Stanley Kubrick

Fixed Income
Oct 02, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Fed Chairs and Market Returns

By: Jason Chen, Stephen Cianci

How have markets historically reacted to new Fed chairs?

Sep 15, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Just Go with the Flow

By: Johannes Muller, Robert Bush

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy

Fixed Income
Sep 10, 2025 ESG

The great energy race: challenge and transformation

By: Michael Lewis, Steffen Kutscher

(De)carbonization stocktake, and how the clean energy transition meets the great energy expansion

ESG
Aug 28, 2025 Retirement Solutions

Optimizing Life-Cycle Strategies for Savings Plans

By: Dr. Sebastian Kring

A Practitioner’s Perspective

Retirement Solutions
Aug 14, 2025 Multi Asset

DWS Long View Q2 - 2025

By: Jason Chen, Dirk Schlüter

How sensitive are forecasts to prices?

Multi Asset
Jun 23, 2025 Alternatives

A strategic appraisal of climate index investing

By: Lukas Ahnert, Murray Birt, Frederike Bauer, Jay Joshi

Investing in a ‘brave’ new world

Alternatives, Europe, ESG

Unlocking Europe's full potential

By: Simon Wallace, Ronen Ribak

Transforming real estate and the key to unlocking value

May 19, 2025 Multi Asset

DWS Long View Q1 - 2025

By: Jason Chen, Dirk Schlüter, Ajay Chaurasia

Multi Asset
May 12, 2025 DWS Research Institute

India: Bright spot in uncertain times

By: Maria Milina, Elke Speidel-Walz

India’s economic outlook remains attractive, and the recent market pullback creates an entry opportunity for investors

Asia & Pacific
May 06, 2025 ESG

Igniting European transformation

By: Michael Lewis, Jay Joshi, Murray Birt, Maria Milina

Transformation guided by a northern light

ESG, Europe, Americas
Feb 25, 2025 Multi Asset

DWS Long View Q4 - 2024

By: Jason Chen, Dirk Schlüter

Multi Asset
Jan 31, 2025 DWS Research Institute

DWS Long View - 2025

By: Jason Chen, Christian Scherrmann, Dirk Schlüter

The return outlook for the next decade

Inflation, Multi Asset, Global
Jan 21, 2025 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: What to expect in 2025

By: Maria Milina

How investors could take advantage of the already big and exponentially growing AI market

Artificial Intelligence
Nov 20, 2024 Europe

Europe’s investment appeal

By: Maria Milina, Michael Lewis, Murray Birt, Dirk Schlüter, Richard Marshall, Ruben Bos

The investment routes to express European Transformation

Europe, Alternatives, Infrastructure, Real Estate
Oct 03, 2024 Sustainability

Stress testing equity markets with higher carbon prices

Comparing the impact on traditional and ESG equity indices

Aug 06, 2024 Europe

European High Yield for Allocators

By: Jason Chen

Evaluating the use of European high yield within an investment portfolio

Politics, Developed Markets, Thematics
Aug 02, 2024 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence- Investing in AI innovation leaders

By: Maria Milina, Jason Chen

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is reshaping our world, with the potential to add trillions to global economic growth. In this paper, we explore the opportunities for investors to capture transformative opportunities of AI.

Artificial Intelligence
Jul 12, 2024 Politics

Is Mr. Market Apolitical? Not quite

By: Maria Milina, Robert Bush, Jason Chen, Johannes Muller

Politics, Developed Markets, Thematics
May 02, 2024 DWS Research Institute

Yes, Virginia, there are Active ETFs…

By: Robert Bush

So, is it fair to say that ETFs are typically thought of as passive for good reason?

Americas
Apr 30, 2024 DWS Research Institute

Convexity and prepayment risk

By: Jason Chen, James Kole

How the price and yield relationship is impacted for issuer callable bonds

Bonds
Apr 19, 2024 Europe

Energy efficiency policies & investments

By: Siena Golan, Murray Birt

European developments create cross-asset class investment opportunities

Sustainability, Europe, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Alternatives, ESG
Mar 19, 2024 Allocation

DWS Long View - 2024

By: Jason Chen, Christian Scherrmann, Dirk Schlüter

The return outlook for the next decade

Allocation, Multi Asset, Artificial Intelligence, Global, Inflation
Feb 12, 2024 DWS Research Institute

High Yield Bonds for Allocators

By: Jason Chen

Evaluating the use of high yield within an investment portfolio

Multi Asset, Fixed Income

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