All ESG/SRI articles – Page 76
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White papersInequality: Causes, policy response and market implications
Global income equality has improved over the last 40 years, but the story in advanced economies is less positive. We look at the key drivers of this phenomenon and their implications, as well as the economic outlook. We argue this trend will force global companies to embrace ESG criteria at a faster speed, with the fast movers likely to be outperformers.
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White papersWhat technologies do we need to get to net zero?
Meeting Paris Agreement climate change targets means tackling the harder-to-decarbonise areas of the economy with technologies that don’t yet exist at scale.
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White papersHell, Heaven & the Next Bonanza of Mispriced Assets
While markets focus on post-pandemic recovery, regulators have been sounding the alarm on the need to price in long-term climate risk.
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White papersCore Matters Inequality: Causes, policy response and market implications
Over the last decade, since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), more and more adverse “side effects” of previously hailed economic, technological and political “megatrends” have come to the fore.
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White papersPrivate credit markets – optimism grows, but caution is warranted
Activity levels in many private credit markets have unsurprisingly picked up over recent quarters as public markets bounced back, adding to the robust and growing pipeline of opportunities we are seeing across the breadth of the asset universe.
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White papersESG in Action: Improving Climate Change Models for Investments
Gauging the potential impacts of climate change on a company’s valuation or portfolio performance is extremely difficult. At AB, we’ve partnered with Columbia University’s Earth Institute to conduct an extensive review of existing climate change scenario-analysis providers and their various approaches.
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White papersIntroducing our new sustainability hub
Since 1983, Sustainable Wealth Creation has been our sole purpose. We aim to change investment for better, forever, for all.
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White papersESG in Equities: Identifying Winners in the Energy Transition
Clean energy and anti-pollution initiatives will continue to impact the equity investment landscape—but not all companies will be winners, and careful analysis will be needed to identify those that stand to benefit and those that may see a threat to their business model.
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White papersPodcast: A clear green premium
Our Head of ESG, Ed Dixon, recently joined Blackstock Consulting on a PropCast episode to launch their new series of ESG insights with industry leaders.
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White papers*What you need to know about the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration*
The United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (hereafter the UN decade), which will be launched on World Environment Day (June 5), aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean.
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White papersNet Zero through investments: A pilot for intermediary target setting
Decarbonization of credit portfolios could play a major part in helping investors to support the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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White papersSpotlight on environmental challenges: targeting solutions for the planet through impact investing
Ben Constable-Maxwell, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at M&G Investments, explains how active investors can target innovative solutions for the planet by investing in listed equities.
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White papersAddressing climate change: why cashflow driven investors should act now
Climate-aware investing can mitigate against an emerging and significant risk factor. This is essential for investors targeting predictability of cashflows alongside high resilience to market risks.
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White papersStewardship during a crisis: Lessons from the pandemic
With the publication of the 2020 Annual Review of engagement and voting highlights by EOS at Federated Hermes, Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, Head of EOS, reflects on the pandemic and the stewardship lessons for companies and investors.
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White papersLow-volatility investing, here for the long run
A decade ago, after undertaking comprehensive proprietary research into the characteristics of low-risk stocks, we launched our global low-volatility equity strategy.
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Asset Manager NewsFederated Hermes to launch Sustainable Global Equity Fund as first of new product suite
The international business of Federated Hermes has today announced the launch of a new Sustainable Global Equity Fund, the first of a new Sustainable suite of products being developed by the firm to meet strong demand from clients for values-based solutions.
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White papersPricing ESG risk in credit markets
To analyse credit risks with greater precision, we developed a pricing model in 2017 to capture the influence of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors on credit spreads. It showed a convincing relationship between ESG risk and credit spreads, manifesting as an ESG-risk curve.
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White papersGlobal Emerging Markets: ESG Materiality, Q1 2021
In this edition of our ESG Materiality Newsletter, we provide an overview of our engagement activities, as well as case studies demonstrating the progress we have made with portfolio companies. We also delve into an environmental, social and governance (ESG) theme, and its implications for the Emerging Markets asset class.
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White papersRenewable energy stocks look set to rally
We continue to see signs that renewable energy stocks are well orientated after the sell-off that marked the start of the year.
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White papersCan a shift in UK policy help make the ESG case for nuclear?
The UK government says nuclear energy may have a vital role to play in cutting carbon emissions. However, more detail is needed to help investors assess nuclear technology’s ESG credentials, argue Darryl Murphy and Stanley Kwong.
