All Commentary articles – Page 33
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White papersIs There A Need For A Chief Liquidity Officer?
Many institutional investors have a Chief Risk Officer assisting the CIO to measure and monitor portfolio volatility. However, for many long-term investors (e.g., pensions, sovereign wealth funds and defined contribution plans) volatility comes and goes and volatility risk is rarely life-threatening. In contrast, liquidity events can create a sudden and unexpected need to raise cash and can threaten a fund’s survival.
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White papersEmerging Markets Insights: Emerging market earnings outlook
1. Earnings season. The earnings season in emerging markets is underway. Flat headline earnings growth in 2023 masks significant divergence across individual markets.
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White papersKeynote Interview: The renewables path is clear
In an article originally published by Infrastructure Investor magazine, Matt Ridley, partner at Schroders Greencoat, says the right time for renewables is now, with the required investment in renewable energy and associated infrastructure representing a multi-trillion dollar opportunity globally.
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VideoGTIS’ Tom Shapiro says the office real estate market is crashing
Tom Shapiro, GTIS president, joins ‘Closing Bell: Overtime’ to discuss the banking crisis fallout impact on commercial real estate.
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White papersU.S. Real Estate: Parsing a Different Kind of Downturn
The U.S. real estate downturn is proving painful. However, unlike prior downturns, underlying fundamentals are still relatively robust and likely to either mitigate a steep demand decline and/or backstop the current price correction. The Barings Real Estate team discusses.
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PodcastThe Cost of Waiting for Goldilocks
Janet Rilling and Danny Sarnowski discuss the costs investors can face as they wait for a “Goldilocks moment” to add duration to their fixed income portfolios.
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White papersSustainability watch: plant-based nylon, melting ice sheets and green hydrogen
Our selection of sustainability news from April includes landmark regulations and targets set across Europe, as well as examples of companies using alternative raw materials and forming sustainability partnerships.
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White papersA step-by-step guide to measuring social impact in real estate
There’s no benchmark for social impact investing, but investment is gaining traction. In this article we - Schroders Capital - explain how we measure place-based impact.
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White papersExperiential investing: How Web3 commercial transactions are creating new asset classes
In this issue of Disruptive Technology Views, we examine how the Web3 ecosystem can turn transactions into multi-dimensional investment opportunities and discuss a recent real-world example involving NFTs.
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White papersBenefits of Private Real Estate in Volatile Markets
In recent years, institutional and retail investor allocations to private real estate have risen steadily.
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White papersAsset Allocation Committee Outlook: 2Q 2023
Despite equities holding up well so far in 2023, the Asset Allocation Committee remains cautious, anticipating volatility as we approach peaks in rates and inflation and troughs in economic growth and earnings.
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White papersInstitutional Investor: America’s Top Asset Management Firms
Institutional Investor published their list of America’s top asset management firms, according to the companies owned by them. We are proud to announce that we were ranked within their top 10 list.
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White papersThe cost of not acting is high
The world is facing an environmental crisis of unprecedented dimensions. Fighting climate change should be a high priority for humankind as it is closely linked to many other environmental challenges.
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White papersImpact Investing - for investors who want to make a difference
As the scientific evidence of climate change is becoming increasingly indisputable, impact investing has become a prominent and necessary aspect of investing.
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White papersReconsidering the banks sector
Banks have been held widely in the credit side of our sustainable strategies, and selectively on the equity side, for the entirety of their history, reflecting the role that products such as mortgages, current accounts and savings play in society.
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White papersCombining sustainability and outperformance with credit factor investing
What is the ex-ante impact of different sustainable investment approaches on the alpha of a credit portfolio? And what can investors do who want both outperformance and sustainable credit investments? Credit factor investing provides a solution to both questions.
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White papersImpact investing: why social action in real estate is as important as climate action
It is a movement that is hard to argue against. Impact investing, which the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) says can be defined as investment strategies that aim to ‘generate specific beneficial social or environmental effects in addition to financial gains’, has grown enormously in recent years.
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White papersMaking an impact with fixed income
Impact investing is an increasingly compelling consideration for core bond allocations
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White papersInflation, disinflation, inflection Who is right?
The market narrative remains focused on a single topic – inflation – but the overall picture is markedly different to that of late 2022. Equity, credit and rates markets are not synchronised in their pricing or probabilities of the outcomes from here. This conflicting picture of significant rate cuts just around the corner, dovetailing nicely with median levels of credit spreads and a somewhat lofty equity multiple valuation backdrop, leave us asking: ‘Who is right?’
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White papersFuture mobility – investing for impact and sustainable change
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), transport has the highest reliance on fossil fuels of any sector, and accounted for 37% of global carbon dioxide emissions from end-use sectors in 2021. The replacement of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) powered vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) is therefore a core component of the transition to a more sustainable future.
