All Commentary articles – Page 51
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Biodiversity : It’s Time to Protect Our Only Home - N°2 Addressing Biodiversity Loss: A Call to Action
In order to better integrate biodiversity considerations into portfolio construction, first there is a need to better understand how companies impact and depend on biodiversity. Companies must provide dedicated information in order for investors to better consider biodiversity related risks and opportunities in their investment decisions.
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Biodiversity : It’s Time to Protect Our Only Home - N°1 It is time to sound the alarm on biodiversity
”How come the most intellectual creature to ever walk earth is destroying its only home?”
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Biodiversity : It’s Time to Protect Our Only Home
Biodiversity is all around us. It underpins not only our economy but also our very existence: Yet, we (individuals, governments, and the private sector) are only in the early stages of understanding how essential a healthy and biodiverse environment is to a stable and well-functioning society.
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Best ideas across asset classes
Bringing together the most senior investors from across our platform of core and specialist capabilities, including all public and private markets
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The stories behind the numbers
While it’s obvious that companies comprise their numbers, less is known about the idiosyncratic factors that make companies special. RBC’s Global Equity team looks at some of the stories…
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The case for alternatives in uncertain markets
Investor demand for alternative real estate sectors in Europe continues to remain at record levels. Sectors once viewed as niche have established themselves as part of well diversified real estate portfolios, with specialised strategies such as student accommodation, build-to- rent, life sciences and healthcare now regularly featured among the top of investor’s sectoral wish-lists.
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Rising interest rates and inflation: What should private debt investors expect?
Five key questions for Sandrine Richard, Head of Private Debt at Generali Investments Partners. Sandrine Richard, Head of Private Debt at Generali Investments Partners, discusses the impact of rising interest rates and inflation on private debt investments as well as the approach to this increasingly important asset class at Generali Investments Partners.
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Casting a wide quantitative net to access alpha in China
The vast size and changing dynamics of China’s A-share market offer a relatively untapped yet increasingly appealing opportunity for quantitative investing.
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Positioning for the unknown; Nuveen’s CIO’s 2023 outlook
At this time of year, I’m often asked to predict the year ahead or at least share my expectations for it. My answer is often unsatisfying to those expecting some sort of prognostication. That’s because the one thing I’m 100% sure of is that I can’t predict the future. But knowing what I don’t know allows me and my team to position the General Account for the unknown and make it resilient.
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Nuveen’s 2023 outlook; the peaks and valleys
Entering the fourth quarter of 2022, our outlook acknowledged a hard truth for investors nursing wounds from the steep market downturn: We’re not out of the woods yet.
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Outlook 2022: European real estate
We plot out our expectations for real estate next year and beyond, including why the asset class is pivotal in the fight against climate change, and how investors can turn that in their favour.
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2023 US high yield credit outlook: Movement toward higher quality in corporate bonds
High-yield (HY) corporates are likely positioned to withstand potential headwinds and may deliver attractive forward returns to long-term investors, according to Franklin Templeton Fixed Income.
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ISA Outlook 2023
The global economy in general – and real estate markets in particular – are currently in the throes of an acute episode with pressure coming from every direction
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Living Wage: Progress and headwinds
In the decade or so since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were established it has become increasingly accepted that companies have a fundamental responsibility to respect human rights in their operations and supply chains.
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Will US employment hold its ground?
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we observe that the Federal Reserve’s aim to raise unemployment in its fight against inflation is starting to pay off, but will the central bank also be able to contain the upcoming recession?
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2023 US real estate market outlook: The current macro risks and market dislocations may create opportunities
Clarion Partners believes that investors, in 2023, should take a long-term view of commercial real estate during this period of uncertainty.
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Investment Institute Outlook 2023
Following a highly challenging year, our expectation for 2023 and 2024 is to finally see inflation retreat against a backdrop of global growth slowing to its softest – barring the pandemic – since 2009. But while we anticipate a challenging road ahead, we expect a slow recovery emerging in 2024.
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REAL ESTATE’S PUBLIC QUADRANTS: Increasingly attractive, as most of the risks are already priced in
Dark clouds of a recession hang over investment markets with the Federal Reserve continuing to tighten monetary policy. Markets are pricing for Fed funds to approach 4.5% by year end, possibly higher in 2023 moving into restrictive territory.
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The Investment Podcast: CIO perspectives on 2023 and the inflation equation conundrum
M&G’s CIOs, Fabiana Fedeli, Will Nicoll and Jim Leaviss share their views as we head into 2023, discussing valuation opportunities, the depth of a potential recession – and how much closer we are to the light at the end of the tunnel of rate hikes and rising inflation.
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‘Net zero will reorganise value chains’: Höhne-Sparborth joins Hymans Roberston podcast
With the transition to net zero a crucial investment theme, how can investors reduce exposure to climate risk while targeting growth opportunities?