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PodcastThe Private Equity of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
As we continue to navigate challenging market dynamics including rising inflation, difficult labor markets, elevated valuations and ongoing geopolitical tensions, investors are considering how to fill their expected return gap.
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Infrastructure: Why Investing Over The (Very) Long Term Is Worth The Wait
For investors willing to commit for 15 or more years, the financial and non-financial rewards from essential infrastructure assets are compelling
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Midyear Strategic Investment Outlook: What Does the Market Move Mean for Strategic Investors?
Many people say they like to be long-term investors. It’s a laudable ambition, but often the short term gets in the way. Our notes typically focus on the strategic horizon, but when the S&P 500 falls by 20%, 10-year Treasury yields rise by 140 basis points and Bitcoin is down by 60% since the start of 2022, strategic investors need to respond.
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Dealing with income bias in sovereign ESG scores - Sovereign ESG revisited
Although the use of sustainability metrics in sovereign fixed income markets is becoming more mainstream, there is a lack of consensus on how to appropriately assess countries’ environmental, social and governance performance.
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Decentralized Finance for Investment Professionals Course
Essentials of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, hashing, mining, smart contracts, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and more.
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Are Biofuels Really the Choice Fuel for the Future?
The most beneficial biofuels for carbon intensity reduction are biodiesels produced by wastes, such as used cooking oils and other fats, which are truly being recycled into energy. However, supply of these feedstocks is largely limited by the amount of food consumption.
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ESG Insights - H1 2022
Demand for ESG strategies remains strong since the beginning of the global pandemic and US Sustainable funds have had substantial increases in net inflows in the last 5 years.
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An Introduction to Unigestion’s Macro Nowcasters Real-Time Tracking of the Economy
Most of the crucial information needed to assess economic conditions comes with too great a lag to make opportune investment decisions. Key growth and inflation data are often published at least a month after the fact and can be subject to revisions, adding further delay. Sometimes a year can pass before a recession is officially declared.
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ESG Global Study 2022
Many investors are contemplating how to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their investing decisions. In this, our second ESG annual study, we surveyed more than 1,100 global professionals, including advisors, consultants and intermediaries. The result is a comprehensive report providing in-depth ESG insights, thoughts on ESG trends and views regarding ESG regulation.
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How to Build a Top-Performing Private Equity Portfolio in Uncertain Times
Unigestion has developed a robust and proven investment strategy that is well-suited to all market scenarios. Our investment process focuses on seven core investment themes which are underpinned by long-term trends and less correlated to economic growth.
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Low Risk Stocks: an asset in times of stagflation?
With inflation at multi-decade highs in several countries and with no end in sight, stagflation has become a real concern. In an environment of high inflation and low growth prospects, along with restrictive monetary policies, dispersion within the equity market will increase, leading to resilient returns in some area ...
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Blog
Health care winners and losers in the Covid era
US health care stocks have seen many twists and turns during the Covid-19 crisis years, mirroring shifting investor attentions to the new growth opportunities arising from the massive investments and advances in vaccines, testing and other technological innovations within the medical arena.
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Real Estate: Investors Seek Smarter ESG
Owners of core real estate portfolios seek ESG metrics that enable true impact
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Guest blog: why investors look at commodities in turbulent times
Recent months have proven commodity prices higher. In this guest blog, Alessandro Sanos, global director sales strategy & execution, commodities at Refinitiv, examines the performance of commodities.
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Chinese Economy Nearing Inflection Point
The Chinese economy is a cautionary tale for policymakers: early and aggressive restrictions kept the virus contained and allowed the economy to recover strongly and ahead of most others. Outbreaks were contained from March 2020 until the beginning of this year, when the omicron variant sent confirmed cases soaring.
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Data Driving the Weights within the S&P 500 Net Zero 2050 Paris-Aligned ESG Index
There is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed 1.5°C before 2026. Science is telling us that time is running out—climate change is no longer a problem for the future, and its associated physical risks are materializing more evidently. It’s time for action: the world needs to rapidly decarbonize to prevent irreversible impacts.
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Natural Capital: The Next Frontier
How to invest in private assets to positively impact land, oceans, climate and biodiversity
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Webinar
Endgame: Will the ISSB Become the Comprehensive Global Baseline for Sustainability Disclosure?
Investors from around the world are increasingly more demanding higher quality reporting on ESG information to ensure it is comparable. Join this webinar to learn more about the proposed standards, hear experts’ views on the path forward to put in place high-quality, global disclosure standards for sustainability, and understand how a global baseline for sustainability disclosure fits with current and future.
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Transition Phase
The month of May ended in such a way, that a casual observer looking at final performance numbers would find it hard to believe just how volatile and uncertain it actually was. The end-of-month recovery contrasted with an earlier correction that sent some markets to year-to-date lows (or highs).
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An Integrated Approach to ESG and Quality
ESG factors are key considerations in evaluating a company’s quality and sustainable growth prospects. Our Fundamental Growth and Core Equity team incorporates ESG considerations, including climate transition planning and climate risk, into its fundamental analysis of companies via a proprietary Confidence Quotient metric.
