All ESG/SRI articles – Page 17
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White papersHot Debates for 2024
During the Amundi Investment Seminar, which took place in Rome early in October, we asked our investment professionals questions to help us define a forecast for what 2024 will be like for the economy, geopolitics and investments.
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White papers2024 Outlook: Steering through turning tides
The coming year will see the tides turn for growth, inflation and monetary policy, with the United States expected to enter a mild recession in the first half of 2024. Price pressures will abate, giving central banks scope to cut interest rates, but monetary policymakers will remain wary of the risk of policy errors. Fiscal policies will aim to reduce deficits and debt built up over the past decade while continuing to support the energy transition.
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White papers2024 Investment Outlook
Cross Asset Investment Strategy Special Edition: Steering through turning tides
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White papersClimate-Related Stress-Testing and Net-Zero Valuation
This paper proposes a methodology for quantifying the climate-related transition impacts on energy-intensive companies. In this study, we use a publicly available dataset created by the Bank of Canada that combines the scenarios developed by the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model with the results from two macroeconomic models (ToTEM and BoC-GEM-Fin) to illustrate price and production patterns for 10 emission-intensive sectors across 8 aggregated regions.
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White papersESG Thema #14 - Navigating the Net Zero landscape: a toolbox for investors
Net Zero initiatives are raising standards and market practices by putting investors at the forefront of the transition to Net Zero, encouraging both real-economy carbon reduction and increasing investments in climate solutions.
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White papersSustainability: Interconnected challenges and what we’re doing about them
Some of the world’s biggest challenges are inextricably intertwined. Here, we look at potential solutions across four interconnected areas: halting climate change, improving efficiency, embracing a circular economy, and promoting greater social inclusion.
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White papersSolving for 2024: 10 Key Themes to Navigate the Markets
Each year, our investment leaders identify 10 key themes that they believe will be prominent in the markets over the next 12 months.
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White papersThe Limitations of Passive Investing to Achieve a Net-Zero Outcome
In our second installment of The Fine Print of Indexation, we tackle the challenge of building net-zero-aligned portfolios.
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White papersDefenders of a threatened world
Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately impacted by the economic, environmental, and social impacts of industrial projects. Nick Pelosi and Ellie Higgins explain how we engage with companies on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and community impact.
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White papersMeta Platforms case study
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, our focus turned to how Meta could resolve its data privacy challenges and provide safeguarding policies that protect its users.
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White papersHas the ESG bubble burst?
The blowback against ESG has taken on a life of its own in recent months but, even in the face of rising political opposition and a slowdown in fund flows, the real-world challenges ESG investing is designed to address are too big to ignore.
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White papersPublic Engagement Report Q3 2023
The Q3 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes focuses on our engagements with companies on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and the community impact of large industrial projects. Plus, the wider societal impacts of AI, and voting season highlights from developed Asia and emerging markets.
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White papersNet Zero Investment Portfolios - Part 2. The Core-Satellite Approach
This article is the second part of a research project on net-zero investment. While the previous publication was dedicated to the integrated approach, this one focuses on the core-satellite approach. As explained in the first part, net-zero policies need to address two dimensions: decarbonizing the portfolio and financing the transition.
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White papersSustainable Global Equity, Annual Report 2022-23
This year’s annual report focuses on the UN SDGs and explores how two different trends are supporting progress on a number of objectives.
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White papersDoing good and doing well: Our approach to sustainable fixed income
What are the core principles of sustainable investing, why does it make sense in this environment, and what kind of companies do we look to invest in? Mitch Reznick, Head of Sustainable Fixed Income, shares the team’s view.
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VideoThe Responsibility Office: Supporting sustainable wealth creation
In this video, members of the Responsibility Office explain how they support the business in creating sustainable wealth for our investors.
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White papersHow ESG monitoring can enhance sovereign bond investing
Fundamental research has always been at the heart of our investment approach, The Capital SystemTM. We believe that analysing material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can help us better understand long-term risks and opportunities.
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White papersHow sustainability fits into commercial real estate debt
With over 70% of surveyed institutional investors now considering or planning to consider climate risk and the environmental and societal impact of their investment decisions, it is becoming increasingly obvious that investment products should offer sustainable qualities in order to meet this growing demand. As a result of this trend, this paper looks at how commercial real estate (CRE) debt could be a popular choice.
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White papersHow are style and inflation risks influencing ESG investors?
Soaring inflation and sharp shifts in equity market leadership have taken their toll on investors over the past 18 months or so. But how are these market events playing out in the ESG arena?
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White papersA New Energy Investment Paradigm
Using today’s fossil-fuel profits to invest in the long-term growth and emissions reduction of clean and renewable power.
