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White papersOpen Goals: Taking SDG investing to the next level?
The latest Gates Foundation annual assessment of global progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is less than encouraging. According to Bill Gates, the goals are still far out of reach, as he lamented the world is “nowhere near improving fast enough” to meet them. The same could be said for investors—when it comes to addressing SDGs in their investments, there’s still much progress to be made.
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Why Deleveraging Is The True Culprit Weighing On Global Growth
Fears over “secular stagnation” appear to be overdone.
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Blog | Coronavirus outbreak – a new test for nascent growth recovery and risk appetite
The focus on markets in the last few weeks has been on risks posed to the global supply chain emanating from the recent outbreak of the coronavirus in China. As a result, there is a building awareness that it is catching the global economy at a vulnerable stage, injecting uncertainty into the near-term outlook for the global economy.
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Integrating ESG into Core around the World
An increasing number of investors require indices that are aligned with their investment objectives and their personal or institutional values. The S&P ESG Indices were designed with both of these needs in mind.
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Blog | Climate change challenges the concept of risk-free assets
Climate physical risks correspond to the economic and financial losses caused by climate-related hazards. This concept regroups both acute (e.g. flood, storms or extreme temperature) and chronic (such as increasing temperature, sea level rise) hazards. Both risks are intrinsically linked, as frequency and intensity of acute hazards are expected to increase due to the global warming.
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A to Z of Responsible Investing across real assets
From affordable housing to zero deforestation, our A to Z of responsible investing practices can help create enduring benefits for clients and communities.
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Private credit: Middle market opportunities to meet today’s challenges
Private credit has historically been an attractive investment.
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New institutional investor insights - 20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth
Diversification and selectivity will become ever more important in 2020 and beyond, especially as we think yields will remain low, returns will be tough to come by and volatility may rise. That means getting more exposure to more opportunities and more risks across asset classes, while remaining nimble.
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Global Emerging Markets: 2020 country allocation review
Monetary easing and a pause in trade tensions helped global growth turn a corner at the start of this year. While the structural growth story for emerging markets remains intact, a potent mix of challenges remain – including the coronavirus, which should depress activity for the first half of this year. Here, we consider our 2020 country allocations for global emerging markets.
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Multi-asset allocation views: Why the bull run in global equities could continue
Sunil Krishnan discusses the conditions for a continued rise in global equities, the potential of Japanese and US equities to outperform from a regional perspective, and some attractive features of emerging markets – particularly Brazil – which may have been overlooked.
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Why solar energy’s prospects look bright for 2020
As the long-term transition towards renewable energy continues apace, we see a sunny outlook this year for solar energy companies, as well as onshore wind and energy storage.
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Risk & Reward - Research and investment strategies
This award-winning quarterly publication contains original content from Invesco’s investment teams and leaders. This edition includes seven articles covering a wide range of topics including factors, risk management, fixed income and the investment opportunities in China. Risk and Reward is in its 30th year of publication.
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The Insurer: Maurice Tulloch on climate risk, insurance and closing the protection gap
The Aviva CEO talks to AIQ about how the insurance industry is working to assess and manage the catastrophic risks of climate change.
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The Policymaker: The US response, green technology and climate regulation
Ken Alex, former adviser to Californian governor Jerry Brown, discusses US policy, carbon capture and storage and the need for regulation to combat the effects of climate change.
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ESG Investing In Corporate Bonds: Mind The Gap
This research is the companion study of three previous research projects conducted at Amundi that address the issue of socially responsible investing (SRI) in the stockmarket (Berg et al., 2014; Bennani et al., 2018a; Drei et al., 2019). The underlying idea of this new study is to explore the impact of ESG investing on asset pricing in the corporate bond market.
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Fixed Income Outlook: 2020 Will the Economy survive the politics?
New year, new decade—we’re off to the races. None of the doom-and-gloom predictions materialized in 2019. Trade tensions did not spiral into out-of-control trade wars, new tariffs did not have a major macroeconomic impact, the US economic expansion did not halt and China’s economy did not stall. The lesson learned is that last year, too many people worried too much about the wrong things.
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Coronavirus & The Next Global Financial Crisis
The actions, both real and perceived, taken by China’s government to contain the coronavirus should serve as an indication of how authorities there would (or wouldn’t) respond to a future financial crisis and contagion of a different kind in the global economy.
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Asset Manager News
Global Retail Attractiveness Index - Q4 2019
European Retail Markets Resilient In Face Of Global Economic Downturn
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Why climate change also matters for government bond investing
Sovereign debt investors are exposed to a range of climate change risks that are generally not well understood or incorporated into the investment process. Part of the challenge has been the lack of sustainable investment products and viable climate data.
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Target Factor Exposure: Investment applications and solutions
Factor strategies differ significantly in terms of portfolio construction. There is much debate regarding the pros and cons of alternative construction approaches. A vigorous debate has unfurled over the best way to combine factors into a single portfolio, with some practitioners preferring the top-down approach and others favoring a bottom-up “integrated” approach.
