All Equities articles – Page 26
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Net Zero Investment Portfolios - Part 1. The Comprehensive Integrated Approach
The emergence of net zero emissions policies is currently one of the most important topics among asset owners and managers. In this research paper, we investigate the integrated approach, which is implemented by equity and fixed-income mutual funds and ETFs.
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Smaller Companies: Specialists & Industry Leaders
There is a misconception that the small-cap universe is less developed or less diverse than its large-cap counterpart—but many smaller companies are leaders within their industries.
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Investment Outlook 2023 – Investing in an age of transformation
In our 2023 Investment Outlook, we seek to guide investors at a pivotal moment for the global economy. Surging inflation and fundamental geopolitical shifts have led to rising demands on governments.
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2023 Investment Outlook - Some light for investors after the storm
2023 key convictions from CIOs: 1. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is acting as an accelerator towards a regime shift, featuring higher inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, and a tug of war between monetary and fiscal policy, in a world already flooded by debt. Expect economic divergences to intensify.
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UK Fiscal Budget: main political, social and market implications
The UK fiscal budget main political implications: The budget is designed to improve public finances, regain market trust, and help the Conservative government regain some ground ahead of the next election.
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Standing out in Asian equities – Fund in 5
Fund in 5 offers an overview of the five key angles of the Asia ex-Japan Equity Fund (asset class, process, differentiator, the team & track record) including a short video.
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Markets take fright as Xi assumes total control
Chinese equities had a volatile week following the ruling Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress in Beijing that confirmed President Xi Jinping’s third term backed by a cadre of loyalists.
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Research Report
How to account for nature’s role in the economy
In prioritising economic development, humanity has caused considerable damage to the natural world and its ecosystems. Yet a degraded biosphere will have a direct impact on growth and human welfare over the next several decades.
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Driving an equitable transition to a low-carbon economy
Rekha Unnithan and David Haddad, co-heads of private equity impact investing, and Radhika Shroff, managing director on Nuveen’s private equity impact team, were recently featured in PEI’s 2022 Impact Investing special report, where they discussed two of the most pressing issues impact investing is working to address: climate change and inequality. In the article, they explain how these challenges are exacerbated during periods of market disruption and why the two issues are closely interlinked.
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Moving ESG investing forward
When Ivo Knoepfel coined the term “ESG investing” in his landmark 2004 UN report, “Who Cares Wins,” he unleashed an almost inconceivable rise of sustainable investing. With this rapid growth in ESG has come the insatiable demand for ESG data. According to SustainAbility, an ESG consultancy, the number of ESG ratings and rankings providers has grown from about 20 in 2000 to over 600 by 2020. Even with recent market consolidation, this number has grown since then.
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Thinking like a business owner
The recent global backlash to the UK government’s tax-cutting plans – along with geopolitical uncertainty, energy security concerns in Europe and ongoing tension between inflation and interest rates – has added significantly to this year’s equity market volatility.
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Sustainable investments in Emerging Markets
The lack of data is often the reason why professional ESG analysis of companies and countries has so far focused on the industrialised countries. This is currently changing and more and more ESG funds with a focus on Emerging Markets are being launched. Jürgen Maier, Emerging Markets expert at Raiffeisen Capital Management in Vienna, explains the challenges and opportunities associated with ESG investments in Emerging Markets.
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Earnings era: future performance in private equity
Slowing economic activity together with higher inflation and rising interest rates has shaken global equity markets. As with prior market inflection points, asset owners are taking a close look at current portfolio allocations.
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Reaching for net zero across asset classes
LGIM is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across all assets under management. Here’s how we’re targeting this goal within different investment capabilities.
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Barings 360 Conference
Barings 360 was designed by LPs, for LPs, in an effort to challenge conventional wisdom and expand investors’ perspectives on a wide range of asset classes.
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Why Smaller Companies?
From strong performance to industry leaders, there are a number of reasons we believe small-cap equities are worth consideration for longer-term investors.
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Emerging market equities—why now?
Emerging markets are resilient and better positioned than developed markets to face the current uncertain global environment, according to Franklin Templeton Emerging Market Equity’s Andrew Ness. He makes the case for investors to take a look at this underappreciated and undervalued asset class.
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An Eventful Time for Event-Driven Investing
In a tough market environment, we believe company management teams and boards have to be more creative, daring and decisive; seeking event-driven opportunities is all about finding those taking the most impactful action.
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Emerging Markets Charts and Views - EM investing after the great repricing
The great repricing of 2022: global financial markets have been caught in a highly gloomy and volatile environment since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in an effort to tame surging inflation (at 40-years highs).
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EM Equities: Is the Bear Market Closer to the End?
A number of the headwinds facing EMs are already reflected in company valuations—and some are even beginning to fade, suggesting that EM equities may be close to a turning point.