All Alternatives articles – Page 54
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White papersDisruptive technologies challenge traditional infrastructure approach
Traditional infrastructure investments are being challenged by the pace of innovation, and technology and disruption will likely create opportunities across all core infrastructure asset types. So a highly flexible approach is required to respond to this.
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White papersThe UN Sustainable Development Goals: A touchstone for today’s responsible investor?
Investors are increasingly seeking to understand and measure the wider consequences of where they allocate their capital. In this article, we look at how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help to inform investor choices.
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White papersAir pollution: Sustainable development and investment opportunity
The World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution contributes to seven million deaths per year, largely concentrated in South East Asia and the Western Pacific.
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White papersChina & Brazil: Currencies on Diverging Paths?
The election of a new leader in Brazil and the escalating Sino-U.S. trade war could send their currencies, the real and yuan, on diverging paths.
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White papersHedge Fund Strategy Outlook: Q4 2018
For this quarter’s outlook we are taking a deeper look at alpha.
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White papersWill a sweltering summer heat up interest in responsible investment?
After exceptionally high temperatures, drought, floods and wildfires, will this catalyse investment in strategies that target climate-related risks and opportunities?
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White papersSICAV (GIS) SRI Ageing Population Celebrating 3 years of success!
What have been the most important lessons learned in terms of the performance to be obtained from this investment theme, SRI approach (Socially Responsible Investment), and stock-picking strategy, since GIS SRI Ageing Population (the Fund) was launched three years ago?
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White papersResponsible Investing Roundtable: Experiences from Around the World
AllianceBernstein asked four institutions around the world to share their thoughts about the opportunities and challenges of responsible investing in their investment plans.
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White papersNine ESG Questions You Should Be Asking Your Manager
Figuring out whether your money is funding issuers that are effective stewards of their corporations, society and the environment starts with asking your asset managers pointed questions about how they incorporate environmental, social and governance concerns into their processes.
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White papersDC Default Solutions—Managing ESG Factors Thoughtfully
Environmental, social and governance is already a hot topic—and new proposals by the Department for Work and Pensions are turning up the heat on pension trustees.
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Cash Equitization with E-mini Equity Index Futures
Take a look at how CME E-mini Equity Index futures are used to equitize cash in portfolios, including avoiding drag on performance and more.
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White papersESG in passive: let the buyer beware
Are investors ignoring the small print in their rush to buy funds incorporating environmental, social and governance principles?
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White papersWhy governance is key to restoring trust in UK infrastructure
The UK infrastructure industry needs to face up to its failings and act in the best interests of all stakeholders. Developing a code of conduct would be a good place to start, argue Darryl Murphy and Mirza Baig.
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White papersTackling financial exclusion through the financial markets
We have never lived in a more interconnected society. We can communicate with friends and colleagues on the other side of the planet in the blink of an eye, and have more access to more information than ever before.
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White papersImpact Investing and Social Infrastructure
This paper will discuss how investing in social infrastructure in Europe can lead to positive impact-based outcomes for communities and the environment.
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White papersManaging emerging market currency exposures
Conventional wisdom says long-term investors in emerging market assets will bene t from the respective currencies appreciating as these economies grow. Hedging this risk makes little sense as it would wipe out a potential source of returns.
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White papersInterview: Investing for Returns Can Support Sustainable Development
Can investing for market-rate returns contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
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White papersESG: What Institutional Investors Are Saying About Sustainable Investing
At a Neuberger Berman conference, institutional investors discussed current trends in ESG investing.
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White papersEuro-Dollar Caught in a Fiscal-Monetary Tug-of-War
The exchange rate between the euro and U.S. dollar has been trading in a narrow range for the past eight months due to monetary and fiscal policies on both sides of the Atlantic pulling in opposite directions.
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White papersChasing Your Tail
Buying put options to hedge equity tail risk can be ineffective and expensive.
