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Impact Investing Towards a Better World
When it comes to investment criteria, most fund managers don’t typically look at alleviating hunger, expanding access to health care or bridging the digital divide.
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The last Smart Beta paper you’ll ever (have to) read
Institutional investors could be forgiven for rolling their eyes at yet another article on “smart beta.” Indeed, the hype around this topic over the last few years has been intense.
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Five Questions CIOs Should Ask Investment Managers About ESG
As risk management has drawn more attention in recent years, institutional investors who have integrated environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations into their process have put themselves in a better position to assess risks and opportunities in their portfolios. In our view, keeping track of how companies handle ESG ...
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Doing well by doing good: Why sustainability delivers a double bottom line
Significant transformation within the energy industry that increasingly supports sustainable infrastructure is under way. Demand for clean energy is rising, driven by chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, new policy and regulation, more competitive costs of renewable fuels, efficiency technologies, and heightened consumer awareness. As demand grows for low-carbon transport, low-carbon electricity, ...
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From hero to zero and beyond: The investment implications of negative yields
Negative yields are seldom mentioned in economic and finance textbooks. But now that the central banks of Denmark, the eurozone, Sweden and Switzerland have set official rates below zero, investors are having to grapple with negative yields for short-dated, and indeed, some longer-maturity fixed income instruments.
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Active or passive? That's the wrong question
The debate over active versus passive investment has been raging for 50 years now – for much of that time, unproductively.
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Balancing growth, diversification, downside risk and liquidity
Investors today face a conundrum: how should they pursue future capital growth while maintaining diversification and seeking to limit downside risk, given current market valuations?
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The case for multi-sector credit
With current yields low, the prospects for total returns from core fixed income appear subdued in the near term, and investors are seeking ways to achieve greater returns from their bond allocations.
