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Dec 01, 2025 DWS Research Institute

Vorsprung durch Technik: Germany’s next industrial revolution

By: Michael Lewis, Ian Bigelow

European Transformation, ESG
Nov 15, 2025 Research Paper

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 Research Paper

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 Research Paper

Fed Chairs and Market Returns

By: Jason Chen, Stephen Cianci

How have markets historically reacted to new Fed chairs?

Sep 15, 2025 Research Paper

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 Research Paper

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 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
Apr 02, 2024 DWS Research Institute

Dividends and Inflation – Let’s Get Real...

By: Robert Bush, Jay Joshi, Alicia Ansorg

In this paper, the first of a series of four, we will look at the relationship between dividends and inflation over the last twenty years

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
Dec 12, 2023 ESG

Investing in carbon: a new asset class

By: Murray Birt, Jay Joshi, Michael Lewis

European carbon allowances - “A little goes a long way”

Commodities, Sustainability, Energy, Equities
Dec 01, 2023 ESG

Nature-focused regulations start to get serious

By: Michael Lewis, Steffen Kutscher, Otar Sarishvili, Dr. Yannik Bofinger

Whitepaper #1: Catching-up to climate

ESG
Nov 27, 2023 Multi Asset

Long View Q3: Japanese reflation

By: Jason Chen, Katrin Loehken, Dirk Schlüter

Japanese market has generated renewed confidence among investors with the potential to escape the deflationary trap of the past three decades.

Multi Asset
Nov 10, 2023 Thematics

Mr. Market Goes to Washington

By: Maria Milina, Robert Bush, Jason Chen

Once considered separate domains, economic and national security have seen growing convergence in recent years.

Thematics, Americas, Globalization, Technology
Aug 17, 2023 Multi Asset

Long View Q2: Inverted yield curves

By: Jason Chen, Dirk Schlüter

Fixed income returns in inverted yield curve environments

Multi Asset
Jul 28, 2023 ESG

ESG in Strategic Asset Allocation: The 2023 Update

By: Matthias Schuckardt, Gunnar Friede, Peter Warken, Marco Kleweken, Jason Chen

ESG
Jun 06, 2023 ESG

A new boiling point: Oceans heat up

Given all the headlines of new extreme levels of temperature rise on land, one might have overlooked that a similar rise in temperatures is occurring in our oceans.

ESG, Macro, Alternatives
Jun 01, 2023 European Transformation

Solutions to drive Europe’s transformation

By: Johannes Muller, Michael Lewis, Murray Birt, Maria Milina

To address the structural forces holding back European growth and investment returns requires a significant transformation of the European economy.

Europe, ESG
May 23, 2023 ESG

Changing the flow of global climate finance

ESG, Macro, Alternatives
May 16, 2023 Multi Asset

Long View Q1: Monetary tightening

By: Jason Chen, Christian Scherrmann, Dirk Schlüter

Transmission of monetary tightening into financial conditions and demand destruction

Multi Asset, Interest rates, Monetary policy
Apr 20, 2023 DWS Research Institute

Direct lending & the European transformation

By: Maria Milina, Murray Birt, Michael Lewis

A financing solution for SMEs to participate in the transition

Alternatives, Europe, ESG
Apr 18, 2023 ESG

Earth Day– E-mobility solutions

ESG, Macro
Mar 27, 2023 ESG

Energy efficiency project focused funds

By: Murray Birt, Johannes Heickmann

Macro, ESG, Alternatives
Mar 21, 2023 ESG

The hidden cost of water

Macro, ESG, Alternatives
Jan 23, 2023 ESG

More work ahead for COP28

By: Michael Lewis

Recap of the World Climate Summit 2022

Macro
Nov 04, 2022 Macro

Earth Systems

By: Michael Lewis

Exploring the climate-biodiversity-land-water-oceans-just transition nexus

ESG, Macro
Oct 25, 2022 Artificial Intelligence

Deep Reinforcement Learning, how AI helps to invest your money

By: Dr. Sebastian Kring, Jan Keesen

One of the key challenges that investors face is determining financial strategies that are optimal for multi-period investment objectives.

Artificial Intelligence
Oct 21, 2022 Macro

Making sense of carbon price forecasting

By: Michael Lewis

The predictive power of commodity analysts and forward curves

Macro, ESG
Aug 04, 2022 Macro

Long View Q2: The risk of the ‘new normal’

By: Francesco Curto, Jason Chen

Implications on the global macroeconomy and financial markets.

Allocation, Macro
Jul 28, 2022 Multi Asset

The Global Market Portfolio

By: Peter Warken, Angelina Kostyrina

Setting a new standard for the post 60/40 regime

Multi Asset
Jul 11, 2022 ESG

The corporate journey to carbon neutrality

By: Maria Milina, Michael Lewis, Andrew Lu

Deploying renewable energy to lower companies’ carbon footprint

ESG, Energy, Sustainability
Jun 27, 2022 ESG

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: ESG & Sustainability implications

By: Francesco Curto, Michael Lewis, Murray Birt

ESG
May 16, 2022 Macro

Long View Q1: The impact of country risks

By: Francesco Curto, Jason Chen

Within this report, we present the DWS long-term capital market assumptions as of the end of March 2022 for major asset classes.

Allocation, Macro
Mar 17, 2022 Multi Asset

DWS Long View - 2022

By: Francesco Curto, Jason Chen, Dirk Schlüter

Allocation, Multi Asset, ESG
Feb 16, 2022 ESG

Carbon pricing and carbon allowances

By: Murray Birt, Robert Bush, Michael Lewis, Jay Joshi

ESG

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