Alternatives – Page 3
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Alternative investments: Asset allocation strategies in a changing environment
Highlights from the “An asset allocation solution for public and private markets” session at the Asia Investment Conference 2024
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Biodiversity bonds: the new frontier in fixed income markets
Sovereign, supranational and corporate borrowers are issuing bonds that embed biodiversity protection and restoration goals.
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Agritech: Specialist Investors Reset Valuations
Agritech is an industry that offers some amazing innovations and lots of theoretical potential, but successful investments must be grounded in reality.
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Beyond the façade: Real Estate Debt
While some construction projects seek to preserve the façade and replace the interior, the opposite can also be possible: preserving a building while replacing the façade. And this approach can create compelling investment opportunities.
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Underwriting the Underwriters: Finding Opportunity in Consumer Loans
When it comes to investing in consumer debt, headlines may be misleading. We see opportunity.
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Quality and Growth: Striking a Balance
The world’s central banks have made great strides in tamping down inflation over the past year. But as investors are discovering, fighting inflation is a long game. US economic growth slowed to an annualized 1.6% in the first quarter—even as core inflation ticked up close to 4%. Near-term activity indicators are showing some evidence of recovery, but we expect overall economic growth to trend lower.
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Making the most of your cash: demystifying the money markets
As a key beneficiary of the current economic backdrop, money market funds can provide a low-cost way to earn a return on cash. In this paper, we outline what the money markets are, how to access them and why investors should consider using them to make the most of their cash.
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AGRITECH: Growing market players = collaboration, not competition
Tackling the world’s broken food systems is an enormous challenge – more quality players in the agritech space are helping to drive change, fuel knowledge sharing and reduce transaction risk.
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Driving impact: Why the US represents a hive of opportunity for sustainable investors
From renewable energy and water treatment to precision agriculture and artificial intelligence (AI), the US is home to many of the world’s most innovative companies leading the battle against climate change and biodiversity loss.
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LOIM Stewardship in 2023: pushing for ambitious action
How does LOIM go about helping companies become fit for the future while supporting long-term portfolio objectives? Decarbonisation, nature and best-practice governance were foremost on our stewardship agenda in 2023. We explore this in depth in our annual report to the Financial Reporting Council, which can be accessed here.
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5 key topics for investors to have on their ESG radar
How can just three letters encompass such a vast array of crucial topics for investors? It’s a question I often ask myself. Of course, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues move in and out of focus — often leaving a flurry of activity in their wake. And yet, the sheer number of these issues that investors are grappling with just seems to keep growing.
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Real and alternative assets in focus in the strategic asset allocation
Our 2024 CMA outlines the general attractiveness of real and alternative assets compared to listed assets and confirms good opportunities in terms of risk/return profiles. The attractiveness of these assets is linked to the remuneration for the liquidity risk exposure.
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The health care breakthrough that’s not an obesity drug
You’ve heard of computer hacking, now meet gene hacking. In an age of remarkable health care innovation, scientists are manipulating human DNA to find new ways to treat diseases.
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Hedge Fund Outlook H2 2024
Hedge Funds (HF) are up 4.2% year-to-date as of March 2024, which compares well with diversified global allocations, including 40/60 Equity/Bond portfolios which are up around +2.2% and have higher volatility. HF performance year-to-date was led by CTAs, EM focused and L/S Equity both Directional and Neutral. Overall, the HF industry continued to produce very strong alpha, up an estimated 6%+ y/y.
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Public Engagement Report Q1 2024
The Q1 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes focuses on carbon capture, utilisation and storage and the implications for companies relying on it to meet their net-zero emission targets. Plus, how the growth of sustainable bonds has reinforced the case for credit engagement.
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Seeds of change: Engaging on deforestation
Halting and reversing tropical deforestation will be essential if we are to avoid the consequences of severe climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Capitalizing on aligned interests with banks to diversify revenue streams
Insurance companies are generally able to invest cash at long tenors and face the challenge of investing it in a way that maximizes their return in a capital constrained framework such as the one defined by the Solvency II directive in Europe while maintaining profitability in a volatile financial market.
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Amundi Insurance Insights #2
In the ever-evolving landscape of the insurance sector, many of the themes identified in 2023 continue to reverberate in 2024. Against a backdrop of slowing growth, high interest rates, geopolitical turmoil, environmental risks, as well as regulatory shifts, insurers are urged to take proactive measures to better position themselves to navigate the complexities of the investment landscape and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
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Decarbonising steel: redefining the value chain and the role of iron ore miners
The global steel industry is currently responsible for about 7% to 9% of annual global CO2 emissions. In some countries like China, South Korea, and Japan, emissions from the steel sector are nearly double the global average, at 15%, 14% and 12% respectively. Demand for steel is expected to grow.
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French mortgage rates fall rapidly in Q1
Q1 data suggests the market has reached a turning point, supporting demand for new-home sales to private individuals.