All Alternatives articles – Page 30
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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 papersA burning issue – decarbonising the global steel industry
Steel is essential in today’s world, and it will be just as essential tomorrow – much of the technology to create a zero-carbon future will use steel in its construction. Yet steel production itself is a highly polluting activity.
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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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Research ReportClimate Action Report
Here, we summarise the innovations and commitments that lie at the heart of our climate strategy.
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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 papersWeathering Climate Change: Opportunities and Risks in an Altered investment Landscape
PGIM partnered with Greenwich Associates to conduct a study of institutional investors to understand the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, as well as how CIOs incorporate climate change into their investment process (if at all). Among other findings, “regional” and “action” gaps were uncovered.
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White papersWhat is the future for climate disclosure?
It’s only a matter of time before companies will have to report on their climate-related risks. They should get ahead by putting the processes in place to do so now, says Thibaud Clisson.
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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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Video* Ecosystem restoration – Now is the time *
Biodiversity and economic activity are closely linked, so biodiversity loss endangers the economy, us and our prosperity.
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White papersThe Circular, Edition 2, 2021
The Circular cuts to the heart of the issues that matter in the second ESG quarterly update for 2021..
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White papersThe Case For Central Bank Action On Climate Change—An Evolution To Facilitate A Revolution
The traditional view of central banks’ role no longer appears to align with government objectives and the public’s growing desire to address climate change.
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White papersMeasuring and Pricing Cyclone-Related Physical Risk under Changing Climate
We propose a statistical methodology to quantify the financial implications of tropical cyclone-related physical risks implied by climate change.
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Video* How can stewardship help tackle biodiversity loss? *
It is increasingly clear that climate change is a significant cause of biodiversity loss, but biodiversity loss is also driving climate change. As an investor, BNP Paribas Asset Management believes it cannot address one without considering the other in conversations with the companies we invest in and with other investors.
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White papersMedical miracle: Health care innovation saves the world
Several drug developers brought COVID-19 vaccines from initial trials to people’s arms in less than a year. This lightning quick pace defied the expectations of health care professionals and saved countless lives. It was far faster than the development of any similar drug.
