All Alternatives articles – Page 13
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The Fluidity of Liquidity
To meet policyholder demands and terms of their financing arrangements, life insurers must maintain adequate levels of liquidity. Here are some reasons why today’s environment makes liquidity management so critical.
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AXA IM Stewardship Report 2022
Against a tumultuous backdrop that has seen misgivings emerge about the case for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in certain parts of the world, we believe it is now more important than ever to positively influence company behaviour through effective and robust stewardship.
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Why is agriculture such an important focus for the sustainability transition?
Agriculture intersects with several UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular zero hunger, life on land and life below water, good health and responsible production. Around the world, more than 70% of freshwater supplies is used for agriculture and, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the industry generates 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without action, capping global warming at 1.5°C will be impossible and biodiversity loss will continue.
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History Doesn’t Repeat, but It Often Rhymes
Diversification is often key to navigating down markets, but focusing on the mix of stocks and bonds may not be enough.
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Why investing in biodiversity means looking at the solutions, not just the problems
Over half the value of the global economy – some $44trn – is potentially threatened to some extent by the loss of nature, according to the World Economic Forum. However, there is a significant shortfall in the value of current investments targeted at protecting the Earth’s biodiversity.
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Why, and how, investors should integrate biodiversity into fixed income portfolios
One of the fundamental features of biodiversity is that it reaches into every part of our lives – and that means the impacts of biodiversity loss are felt across investment portfolios too. In our view there isn’t an asset class or sector that would not benefit from a close consideration of how those effects might change outcomes or affect financial returns.
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Sovereign Fixed Income: An Update on Our ESG Scores
A declining working age population has contributed to various problems for certain countries as well as impacting their ability to deal with them. Templeton Global Macro take a closer look and highlight five country case studies.
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Shifting the natural cost curve: The role of investors in protecting biodiversity
The damage caused by climate change to the planet, society and economic activity is becoming increasingly obvious every year. Floods and droughts, extreme temperatures and destructive storms all bring with them tangible impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods.
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Biodiversity Q&A: Understanding a powerful new investment theme
As biodiversity becomes an increasingly important part of the global agenda – and of investment strategies – we tackle 10 of the most fundamental questions around the topic: What is biodiversity, why does it matter, and how might it affect investment decisions?
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Dividend Investing: Broader Is Better for Multi-Asset Strategies
Investing in dividend-paying stocks has proved to be a helpful strategy, outperforming global markets over the long term. But their returns can fluctuate, with outcomes influenced heavily by market conditions and stages of the business cycle.
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Euro clearing – a balancing act
For the European Pension Fund community, 2023 brings about important changes as the European Commission sets out its position on the future of euro derivatives clearing activity within the EU, and the PSA mandatory clearing exemption comes to an end in June.
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Impact Opportunities Equity Q1 2023 report: The electric revolution
In our latest quarterly update, we consider the future of the electric revolution and ask: Is the EV market at an inflection point? Looking forward, what will prove the best way to play this theme?
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Paradise: a development without the divide
Our Q1 real estate case study looks at a 17-acre regeneration scheme that helped revitalise the centre of Birmingham and has a focus on delivering both a financial and a social return.
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Biodiversity: It’s Time to Protect Our Only Home - N°4 Addressing Biodiversity in Food-based Sectors
The global food sector is often cited as one of the primary sectors driving biodiversity loss globally. While the sector heavily exacerbates biodiversity loss, it is also heavily dependent on biodiversity and faces significant associated risks. The impacts to biodiversity are often indirect, primarily through the sourcing of raw materials, making the topic difficult to manage and measure in part due to the sheer scale of global supply chains.
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Quick Thoughts: Alternative investments outlook post-SVB
Silicon Valley Bank was a “vital cog” in the private market ecosystem, which leads to many questions—and opportunities—across the alternative investments landscape. Franklin Templeton Institute’s Stephen Dover offers his thoughts.
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Liquid Alternatives — Why Now?
2022 left investors scrambling to preserve capital and find alternative sources of return. Both equities and bonds across the globe suffered in the high inflation and rising interest rate environment. The S&P 500 Index ended the year at -18.1%, the MSCI EAFE Index ended at -14.5%, and the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond (US Agg) Index ended at -13.0%.
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Tapping the Evolution in Alternative Return Streams
Institutional investors’ thinking about risk allocation has been dominated for some time by traditional beta sources, mainly long exposure to equities and bonds. The market regime provided little reason for radical change. After all, for two decades, stock and bond returns were negatively correlated, enabling 60/40 equity/bond mixes to deliver both a risk-balanced allocation framework and attractive returns.
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How Private Assets Can Empower the Energy Transition
Creating a world powered by green energy may be the most capital-intensive undertaking in our lifetime. For investors who want to get close to the action, private investment offers a direct route to participate in projects that are redefining our environmental future and offer solid long-term return potential.
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The democratisation of private assets: how will it work?
Demand for private assets keeps rising, and not just among the traditional institutional investors. We look at how private markets are “democratising”.
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Multi-asset Allocation Views: “Magical Mystery Tour”
In this Allocation Views, our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team believe the prospect of policy rates remaining higher for longer has been a reality check on investor sentiment and helps to reinforce the team’s preference for a moderately cautious view of stocks.