All Alternatives articles – Page 14
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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.
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JPY: Structurally weak, cyclically blessed
Structural headwinds are strong for the yen, setting a fundamental background for the currency to stay weak. Yet a recessionary environment is a cyclical blessing – peaking growth and rates prove that the JPY is among the cleanest diversifiers – and officials may have lost their appetite for currency devaluation.
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Podcast
Mythbusting Crypto Investing
Cryptocurrency, or crypto, the so-called “wild west” of Wall Street, has been raising eyebrows for quite some time now. Since 2013, there have been over 12,000 different types of coins generated, leaving many wondering what is actually reliable in this market.
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Incorporating Climate Transition into Capital Market Assumptions
Two recent events have demonstrated the urgency of transitioning to a new energy paradigm.
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EOS Stewardship Report 2021
EOS at Federated Hermes publishes Stewardship Report 2021. Monitoring engagement outcomes is crucial, to ensure that our approach is effective and achieving the desired results. This year’s report includes expanded sections on our diversity, equity and inclusion approach, and on how we are responding to market-wide and systemic risks. ...
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Litmus test for chemical sector decarbonisation
Chemicals are essential inputs for many industries, with chemical use pervasive and entrenched in the modern world. But like the steel industry, the chemical sector is considered “hard-to-abate”, meaning that the solutions to reduce emissions are either technically challenging, prohibitively expensive, or both.
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Federated Hermes Stewardship Report 2021
At Federated Hermes we believe the investment industry can be a powerful force for good, building a fairer, more equitable world for all – and that active ownership and engagement is the best way to achieve this. In this, our second annual Stewardship Report, we provide an update on our efforts towards effective and outcomes-driven stewardship.
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The Narrow Path to a Soft Landing
Fed governors have made clear that reining in inflation is their primary goal for monetary policy today. As they have no tools to address the supply side of prices, they can only act on the demand side by raising the cost of money to discourage spending.
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Cryptocurrency Investing - Powerful Diversifier or Portfolio Kryptonite?
Red dogs, stump tails and blue pups were just some of the creative names for the ultimately doomed currencies issued by poorly capitalized state-chartered banks during the wildcat banking era in U.S. monetary history from 1837 to 1863 – until Congress finally passed legislation that created a single centrally backed national U.S. currency.
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Engagement theme: Biodiversity collapse
At AXA IM, we are committed to biodiversity protection. Throughout 2021, this commitment has been continually reaffirmed through a series of actions: Reinforcement of our biodiversity strategy and enhancement of our Deforestation and Ecosystems Protection Policy; further integration of biodiversity issues based on continuous engagement activities; and the consideration of new biodiversity dedicated data developed by our partner Iceberg Data Lab.
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The Dollar U-Turn
The USD has been on quite an impressive journey over the last couple of years, with clear but different market drivers characterising its moves. Since last summer however, the path has been relentlessly higher, finally breaching the Covid highs in recent weeks.
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What does the future hold for secondary private equity investments?
We expect that the comparatively new GP-led secondaries market will see continued strong growth if the difficulties facing broader financial markets persist.
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Are investors right to look to UK real estate amid rising inflation?
UK real estate has seen increased interest from investors seeking shelter from rising inflation. We look at the strengths and weaknesses of the strategy and point out what investors should look out for.
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Discovering Stocks for Your Sustainable Investing Goals
Sustainability means different things to different people. So how can an investor know whether a sustainable equity fund is truly aligned with their responsibility ethos and investing goals? Start by asking the following three questions.
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Don’t Fight the Fed Means Higher Real Rates
Global equities and bond markets declined sharply last month, as some indices reached new yearly lows, while rates jumped in the opposite direction and US and German 2-year yields culminated at yearly highs.
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Invest in biodiversity to save the planet
The loss of biodiversity is one of the biggest problems facing humanity. Over the last century, we have seen unprecedented real GDP growth and have made huge progress on many fronts such as benefitting from improvements in mortality rates and technological advances. Unfortunately, in the process we have chosen to ignore nature and have altered 75% of the earth’s surface and 66% of the marine environment1 to satisfy our consumption and energy needs.
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Podcast
Fixed on ESG, Ep. 1
Like most nuanced subjects, ESG is a highly intricate topic with many more complexities than most might initially consider. And incorporating ESG-factors into portfolio construction introduces additional challenges, even to the most seasoned investors.
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Unintended Consequences of Higher Commodity Volatility
Surging commodities over the past months have largely contributed to higher inflation expectations and the resulting “normalisation” by the world’s major central banks, now engaged in an aggressive rate hike cycle for 2022 and beyond.
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MiViews Q2 2022: Normalisation Delayed or Derailed?
Our core scenario for 2022 called for normalisation: economic growth cooling towards potential levels, which combined with easing supply constraints, would allow inflation to cool as well. While the former macro trend has been affirmed, the latter has been, at best, deferred or, at worst, derailed.