Alternatives – Page 19
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White papersSupply-chain ripples: The positive spillovers of decarbonising upstream emissions
Some of the world’s biggest companies are setting ambitious net-zero targets, with significant implications for their supply chains. How impactful could the ripple effect be in helping to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement?
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White papers*Paving the path to inclusive growth*
Are you looking for diversification benefits while simultaneously aligning your financial ambitions and societal values?
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White papersClimate technologies: In search of wild solutions
No single technology is enough to tackle the climate crisis, a global and systemic issue that requires joined-up thinking. We flag different pathways to address warming gases in the atmosphere – five nature-based and five technical – and ask what steps are needed next.
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White papersSupporting climate action and board diversity
As the 2021 season of annual general shareholder meetings draws to a close, we take stock of how we voted on our holdings, in particular on issues around climate change and board diversity, our focus areas.
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White papersHow can we tackle the effects of air pollution on human health?
The quality of the air we breathe can have a significant impact on our health. Alex Bernhardt explores the climate change-driven causes of air pollution and how to tackle the problem.
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White papersThe Great Reset: Rethinking Sustainability
In the second of our conversations about the post-pandemic landscape, we spoke with a power utility and an industrial gases company about climate-related risks and opportunities.
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White papersSustainability – Investors must be stewards
BNP Paribas Asset Management regards active stewardship as an essential part of its role as a ‘Future Maker’ and a sustainable asset manager for a changing world, engaging with companies on issues ranging from environmental degradation and social inequality to opaque governance.
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White papersALTO* Insurance: a solution designed to meet insurers challenges
As automation becomes a mainstay in asset management firms and more are turning to artificial intelligence and alternative data sources for insightful decision-making, managers are looking for additional partners to help optimise their efficiency.
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White papersManaging climate change risk as an investment risk
How do you manage the climate change risk embedded in a large institutional investment portfolio? The General Account (GA) investment committee and I have been thinking about this long before we committed, in May, to the GA becoming net zero carbon by 2050.
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White papersMeeting critical metals demand for a sustainable future
Growth in the net-zero digital economy relies on increased production of critical ICT* metals and rare earths. How can we green the world and connect it, while limiting the social and environmental impact?
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White papersIt’s not easy being green: analysing corporate treatment of carbon-intensive activities
In response to the climate crisis the economy shows clear signs of shifting from “brown” to “green”. Driving this secular change, companies lower their carbon footprint by winding down or divesting carbon-intensive activities.
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White papersThe “great acceleration” intensifies pressure on insurers
While the world is recovering from 2020’s massive shock, it accentuated the challenges facing insurers. There is now greater urgency to adapt business models and portfolios while looking afresh at asset-liability management.
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White papersCommodity Indices - Enhancing Roll Yield: A More Liquid & Diversified Index
Commodity markets have once again returned to the limelight. In early 2020, the spread of COVID-19 sparked a sharp sell-off in energy.
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White papersNet Zero: Managing the Wider Impact of Economic and Capital Displacement
Martin Currie highlight that while focusing on climate action, it is important not to lose sight of other societal and developmental priorities that may occur as the economy is reprofiled.
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White papersShifts & Narratives #7 - Opening the Pandora’s box of social risks: Consequences for investors
The Covid-19 crisis can be considered a turning point for social issues: it has put global socio-economic inequalities in the spotlight and made them more concrete than ever before. It has also clearly shown the tragic effects, from an economic and societal perspective, that systemic shocks can have on unequal, non-resilient societies.
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White papersKey issues for Japan’s 2021 voting season
As we enter peak voting season for Japanese companies, engager Sachi Suzuki explores two key issues where Japan has been a notable laggard – gender diversity and climate change.
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White papersStakeholders in the Just Transition - N°2 Consumers
The objective of a “just transition” was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. It aims to make the transition to low-carbon economies fair to all stakeholders: workers, consumers, local communities, and society at large.
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White papersShifts & Narratives #5 - A unique crisis that opens the way to multiple regime shifts
The Covid-19 crisis is exceptional in many ways. It is the most serious health crisis since the Spanish flu a century ago. This crisis resulted in an unprecedented contraction of activity in 2020 and in the deepest global recession since World War II.
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White papersStewardship in Asia, a source and a victim of climate change
Asia is a major contributor to climate change and at the same time quite exposed to its phenomena such as droughts and floods.
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White papersTime to shift for insurers: Investing in private assets (3/3)
Affiliate Publication: In today’s low rate environment, insurers are allocating more and more to private assets.
