All Alternatives articles
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White papersFrom alternative to essential: The expanding role of private market investing
Not long ago, private markets sat on the fringes of most portfolios – niche strategies used to pick up extra yield around the edges of traditional portfolios. That’s no longer the case. Over the past two decades, private markets have moved steadily into the mainstream, propelled by strong performance relative to public markets, a broader opportunity set, and greater accessibility for investors of all sizes. What was once considered an alternative is now becoming essential.
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White papersESG Thema COP30: Climate finance state of play and investor implications
From November 10th to November 22nd 2025, the 30th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP30, was held in Belém, Brazil. This was the first COP ever hosted in the Amazon region, and it was the second most attended COP after COP28 in Dubai. This conference is the largest annual international meeting on climate organized by the United Nations, since 1992: government representatives come together to attempt to agree on action for the climate crisis. With time, the conference has gathered also financial actors, corporates and civil society, with commitments going beyond policy making.
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VideoAI vs. Demographics: Jobs and the Meaning of Work
Hello, everyone and welcome to this edition of Beyond Consensus. My name is Rick Brink, Market Strategist. I’m joined by Inigo Fraser Jenkins, Co-Head of Institutional Solutions. This is a blast for me to go one-on-one with Inigo. And the topic is a topic that you can find everywhere right now, the idea of AI. And there’s really two main ways that AI is being approached in the investment world. One is something that actually I just did on our Disruptor Series—shameless plug by the way—and this is the idea of how AI gets adopted. The S-curves all the way through physical AI, the needs for energy, what it means as an investor and what gets produced. That’s one side.
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White papersAI’s insatiable appetite for energy
The rapid expansion of AI datacentres is placing increasing demands on electricity providers and energy grids. Velika Talyarkhan and Michael Yamoah examine the challenges for governments and companies.
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White papersSustainable investing in 2026: The continuing path to a more resilient future
Recent years have seen investors operate in an environment shaped by conflicts, inflationary pressures, extreme weather events, and growing digital disruption. These events, coupled with the longer-term sustainability themes shaping our decade – climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising inequality – are redefining risks in capital markets and placing long-term investment resilience under scrutiny.
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White papersInsurance outlook: Managing change is business as usual
We live in a fast-changing world, where organisations need to adapt in order to thrive – and this is especially true for insurance companies. Insurers are impacted by economic cycles and fundamentals, but unlike many other sectors, they must also navigate financial market risks and ongoing developments in regulatory frameworks. In the current fluid environment, agility and risk management are key.
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White papersInvestors reveal their top ESG investment themes and more
At a time of macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, our fifth annual ESG Global Study finds that most investors remain committed to considering ESG issues in the investment process.
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White papersSecuring Compute, Scaling Demand: The Real AI Partnership Story
Strategic deals secure capacity and align multi‑year roadmaps as AI moves from pilots to daily workflows. More efficiency means more adoption, supporting sustained investment.
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White papersThe investment landscape of data centers: opportunities and challenges
The digital age has ushered in a paradigm shift in how businesses operate and individuals engage with technology. Data centers play a central role in this transformation and have emerged as critical infrastructure for the modern economy. For investors, the story today revolves around a simple tension: accelerating demand versus constrained supply. Exploring the investment opportunities for data centers, the factors driving demand, the sector’s challenges, and the European market’s unique positioning reveals a complex yet promising landscape.
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White papersPolitical and Policy Volatility on the Rise
Recent elections in the U.S. and dynamics in Europe highlight rising political volatility and the potential for divergent policy shifts. Investors should prepare for further turbulence ahead.
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White papersCredit Markets Face the AI Wave
As tech giants tap credit markets to finance artificial intelligence, we consider the broader impacts of AI on fixed income.
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White papersThe Rise of Experiential Yield
Why the most resilient investments are those people feel
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White papersPioneering European Alternatives
Global black swan events, generally considered to be once-in-an-economic-cycle occurrences, have been disrupting investment markets with alarming frequency. In the past few years, we have experienced Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts. Europe’s surge in inflation was significantly fueled by the economic shockwaves from the Ukraine crisis. The crisis significantly affected global energy and agricultural supply chains, driving up the cost of fuel, gas and essential commodities, which quickly fed through into consumer prices across the continent. In response to this inflationary shock, European central banks implemented a series of aggressive interest rate hikes, shifting from historically low rates to multi-year highs.
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White papersHigh contrast in Fed Policy Signals
The contrast between the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting meeting in September and the one that ended Wednesday is striking. In the former, Chair Jerome Powell seemed to have a jump in his step as he announced the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had lowered rates by a quarter percentage point with only one, very expected, dissent by White House economist turned Governor Stephen Miran for a half-point cut. Powell had rallied the troops to make a policy decision the traditional way—based on economic data and not political pressure.
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White papersAI revolution needs shift in engagement focus
There is little doubt that advances in AI represent huge opportunities for society and, as a consequence, for investors too. However, there is equally little doubt that the breakneck pace of development is creating significant risks. As a result, the Global SMID Equity Engagement team have developed a proprietary Responsible AI Assessment Framework to encourage the successful adoption and implementation of this new technology across industry, leading to better work and more productive workplaces.
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White papersPublic Engagement Report Q3 2025
The Q3 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes Limited explores the implications of the ratified High Seas Treaty for companies and investors, AI’s insatiable appetite for energy, and key themes from the voting season across developed Asia and emerging markets.
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White papersThe Future of Asset Management: The Macro Imperative
This note outlines an outlook for the asset management industry rooted in our view of the macro investment environment, which suggests that asset owners may need to reexamine their strategic allocations. A higher equilibrium level of inflation, high valuation multiples and less available diversification are not bearish per se, but they do prompt a need to change portfolio design, with the need to protect long-term purchasing power at its heart.
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White papersPre-COP30 Investor Outlook: Key Themes for Belém
The 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) is likely to deliver incremental rather than transformative progress, as most countries remain misaligned with the Paris Agreement and net-zero pathways.
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White papersUnderstanding the modern electrical grid
The electricity grid is at the heart of the clean energy transition and is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in its history. Understanding the modern electrical grid is no easy task, but it is a necessary one, as the grid plays a critical role in economic growth, energy security and decarbonisation. Read our white paper which examines how the grid works, the impact of renewables, the evolution of grid technology and how investors can participate in its modernisation.
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White papersBeyond the basics: How secondaries can enhance your investment strategy
The private equity secondaries market has evolved over the past two decades from a niche solution into a bona fide asset class. What was once largely reserved for distressed sellers is now a sophisticated, and in our view, essential component of portfolio management for investors and private equity (PE) sponsors alike. So, what is behind the current explosion of secondaries activity? In this paper, Nick Lawler examines secondaries’ performance over multiple market cycles, their persistent structural advantages, three common misconceptions, and why current market conditions present a particularly compelling entry point.
