All Commentary articles – Page 73
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WebinarWebinar | Green Room: Can we feed a future population of 10bn people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries?
In the first of LOIM’s planetary boundaries webinar series Michael Urban, Deputy Head of Sustainability Research, talks to Conor Walsh, Portfolio Manager, about the recently launched New Food Systems strategy.
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PodcastThe uncapped impact series with GreenLight Biosciences
Until recently, humanity has relied on chemical solutions to address its biggest challenges. For example, our ability to grow food, to defend livestock against disease and to safeguard human health, all depend in part on chemical solutions. Today is no different. Yet resistance to chemicals is rising rapidly, exacerbated by climate change and ecosystem degradation.
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White papersCybersecurity: a neglected investment risk in an increasingly digitalised world
As the world continues to move rapidly through its digital transformation, investors must keep up with the trends and risks that can follow. Cybersecurity threats abound, and they should be playing a bigger role in portfolio managers’ risk assessments. We explain why this is not yet the case, and then we outline LOIM’s approach to integrating cybersecurity analysis into the investment process.
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White papersReasons for Optimism
Caution may be warranted during the uncertainty of the next quarter—but after markets have sold off so much, does it really make sense to be more pessimistic now than at the start of this year?
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White papersTowards Sustainability: LO Selection – NextGen BioTech earns the label
We are proud to announce that another LOIM strategy - NextGen BioTech - has achieved the esteemed Towards Sustainability label. This brings our total of labelled strategies to 10. This recognises the quality of the sustainability-focused analysis, exclusions and stewardship embedded in the LOIM products qualifying for the label.
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VideoCurrent and Future Opportunities Within the Space Economy
The range of current and potential future opportunities presented by the space economy is considerable. In this video, Senior Portfolio Manager, Michael Barr looks at a range of these, highlighting some recent breakthroughs as well as potential future developments.
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White papersWhat comes after globalisation?
The end of the Cold War acted like a catalyst for the liberal international economic order and free world trade. Cash and commodities moved across the globe at will. Location patterns were reshuffled. Asian countries, especially China, beckoned with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labour. With their labour market largely unregulated, they became the world’s extended workbench.
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White papersAre Biofuels Really the Choice Fuel for the Future?
The most beneficial biofuels for carbon intensity reduction are biodiesels produced by wastes, such as used cooking oils and other fats, which are truly being recycled into energy. However, supply of these feedstocks is largely limited by the amount of food consumption.
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White papers*Sustainable by nature sequel: our portfolio biodiversity footprint*
Research has found that on a number of levels, nature is unravelling. This poses an existential threat to societies and economies – and by extension asset owners and investors. As an asset manager with clients who depend upon a stable biosphere, we have a responsibility to understand how our investments impact nature and how nature loss may translate into financial risks.
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White papersSwitching Gears for an Uphill Ride: Combining Capital Preservation, Return Potential and Liquidity for Official Institutions
In the second of our articles on working with Official Institutions, we ask whether portfolios can be built to withstand a profoundly changed outlook for the economy and investment returns without blowing through their risk constraints.
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White papersEmerging market debt: an active approach
Emerging market debt (EMD) has already broadened and deepened significantly in the last few decades and as the asset class has developed, it has become more appealing to a broader investor base. Issuance has increased, thereby improving liquidity.
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White papersFinding a third way between throttling energy demand and dirty fossil fuel
The war in Ukraine is significantly impacting energy security, particularly in Europe. Beyond oil & gas markets, the conflict has a variety of negative macroeconomic effects. Notably, the fighting in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions on Russia are disrupting commodity supplies, exacerbating ‘cost push’ inflation set in motion by the pandemic and its aftermath.
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White papersREITs and inflation: How public real estate may act as an inflation hedge
Not since the 1980s has the U.S. seen the levels of inflation currently being experienced (Exhibit 1). Moreover, with signs of stress in supply chains still evident from sharply higher commodity prices as a result of the war in Ukraine and reduced cross-border mobility on mounting geopolitical frictions, inflation is morphing from the more traditional, tamer form of demand-pull that has prevailed over the past few decades, into more sinister cost push inflation.
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White papersA complementary allocation in an institutional investor’s portfolio
Since its emergence as an asset class in the 1990s, infrastructure has increasingly been featured as a distinct allocation within institutional investment portfolios.
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White papers2022 Midyear Outlook - Long-term perspective on markets and economies
We are living through a pivotal time in history, marked by geopolitical realignment, high inflation, volatile financial markets and the end of a 40-year period of declining interest rates. The title of this new era could be Brave New World or Back to the Future. But the title I would select is Revenge of the Boomers, because a lot of these events are rhyming with the past, particularly the early 1960s.
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VideoThe promise of Web 3.0
Already a USD50 billion market, NFT (non-fungible token) sales is expected to grow by more than 10% every year through to 2030.
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White papersWhat is the impact of Covid and the Ukraine crisis on fiscal policy?
The past two years have brought not one but two generation-defining events – Covid and the war in Ukraine. Together, they will leave a far-reaching economic and societal legacies.
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White papersWhat will drive financial markets over the next five years?
Dividing a portfolio’s investments more or less evenly between developed market stocks and bonds has proved a rewarding strategy over the past few decades. The annualised return investors have secured by pursuing this approach has been in the high single digits – gains that have come courtesy of steady economic growth, an almost continuous fall in interest rates and inflation, and relatively calm financial market conditions.
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White papersNCREIF review and outlook: Q1 2022
Stellar private real estate returns continue; but poised to decelerate
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VideoIntroduction to the Neuberger Berman Global Senior Floating Rate Income Fund
Joseph Lynch examines the case for floating rate loans, updating on the market outlook and introducing the Neuberger Berman Senior Floating Rate Income Fund.
