Alternatives – Page 27
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Climate change: asset managers join forces with the eco-warriors
The pandemic has persuaded some investors of the potential financial damage from global warming
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Sustainability – We believe in stewardship
Writing in BNP Paribas Asset Management’s latest sustainability report, Helena Viñes Fiestas, Global Head of Stewardship and Policy, showcases the firm’s recent achievements, underscoring the importance of active stewardship at BNPP AM as part of its role as a ‘Future Maker’ leading change.
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Mizuho Financial Group case study
Mizuho Financial Group has faced allegations from environmental non-profit organisations on its financing of fossil fuels and agribusiness’ activities that are linked to deforestation, peatland destruction and illegal labour exploitation especially in Southeast Asia.
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Pockets of growth in a “silver” economy
For the first time in history, the Earth hosts more people aged over 60 than under five. Today, people in many countries can expect to live into their sixties or longer. Older people can pursue new activities in education, work or their hobbies. Yet having the freedom to do so depends on two things – health and finance.
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Life after Covid: the LDI view
The fast spreading of the new Coronavirus disease (Covid- 19) has become the biggest global challenge in decades, with more than 10 million (recorded) infections and a death toll exceeding 500k by mid-2020. Transmission by asymptomatic people is still debated, but may be a factor facilitating unconscious spreading, and making containment difficult.
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The Pandemic’s Unexpected Upside
The coronavirus lockdown seemed sure to delay the world’s climate agendas but may instead have given them an unintended boost.
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Measuring and Managing Carbon Risk in Investment Portfolios
This article studies the impact of carbon risk on stock pricing. To address this, we consider the seminal approach of Görgen et al. (2019), who proposed estimating the carbon financial risk of equities by their carbon beta. To achieve this, the primary task is to develop a brown-minus-green (or BMG) risk factor, similar to Fama and French (1992). Secondly, we must estimate the carbon beta using a multi-factor model.
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Health Care: The Next Wave Of Innovation In China
In this issue of Trends Reinforced, the Emerging Markets Equity team reviews long-term healthcare investment opportunities in China.
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Repsol case study
Repsol became the first oil and gas company to commit to a net-zero goal by 2050, supported by a decarbonisation pathway with interim targets, setting a higher benchmark for the industry. EOS has engaged with the company since 2013 on its climate action and targets.
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EOS Partnership with The Enacting Purpose Initiative
Business leaders need a simple framework to put purpose into practice
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A Promising Update On The Vaccine We Are All Waiting For
We believe there is good reason to be optimistic. The global effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 has progressed at an incredible speed and is breathtaking when put in the context of vaccine development, which typically takes around a decade.
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Building a new investment paradigm
Time was the financial community would have turned a blind eye to sustainability or societal impact when considering where to invest. Now, however, taking into account the environmental, social and governance aspects of investing is becoming inevitable. At BNP Paribas, such ESG considerations feature largely in investment decisions.
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Using the EU taxonomy as a guide to sustainable recovery
The current COVID-19 induced economic crisis offers companies a unique chance for genuine transformation.
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Aligning index-linked investing with the ‘Paris’ goals
More and more, investors in index-linked strategies are looking for portfolios of companies reducing their carbon footprint and avoiding companies with fossil fuel revenues or production. In accordance with EU aims for sustainable finance, strategies are now being adjusted to two new indices that are aligned with the ‘Paris’ goals. Isabelle Bourcier explains.*
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Economics and ethics: why diversity matters
In business, diversity can be the difference between success and failure. But while progress towards it has been frustratingly slow in many areas, the pressure is mounting on companies to act.
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Shaping a new world
We are in the midst of a health crisis that is causing huge disruption within our society: it is weakening companies, upsetting our daily lives, af- fecting the poorest, deepening inequalities and jeopardising the future of many young people. Today, it is not simply urgent to support the economic recovery, it has also become imperative to speed up the environmental and inclusive transition.
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An investment opportunity for the coming decades: the environment
The issues raised by global warming and environmental questions more broadly require new technologies and sources of energy. The solutions are tied to the gravity of the current pandemic in the sense that there are many calls for the stimulus measures taken to support the economy to be directed at sustainable solutions.
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How Nuveen uses responsible investing across asset classes to seek higher returns and manage risks
Responsible investing (RI) continues to win converts. Yet, whether they are new believers or long-term adherents, many investors looking to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their portfolios limit themselves to either excluding specific industry sectors or adding a fund at the margin.
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Dealing with our plastics waste
We have a plastic problem. On a trip to visit my family in South Africa at Christmas, what struck me was that even on the most remote and protected marine coastline my children and I managed to fill bags with plastic straws and other plastic debris. And the stats confirm we have a problem. Currently, only 14% of our annual plastic packaging produced is recycled, while only 2% is reused for the same or similar products. Instead, most of our plastic waste ends up in landfill or is leaked into our environment (around 12 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans globally every year).
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Energy transition – An area full of opportunities
Amid pervasive evidence of environmental disasters, pressure to meet the Paris Accord targets on the global temperature rise and growing demand from expanding and wealthier populations, the appetite for energy is set to increase massively, more and more so for clean energy.