All Global articles – Page 23
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Counting the cost of the climate crisis
As global temperatures climb, the associated impacts from the climate crisis will become increasingly difficult – and more costly – to manage. How are companies accounting for this risk in their balance sheets? Justin Bazalgette explains why it is important for investors to have confidence in the bottom line.
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Ivanhoé Cambridge recognized as the Global Real Estate Investor of the Year at the 2023 IPE Real Estate Global Awards, winning a total of nine accolades
We were honoured to win the Global Real Estate Investor of the Year award at the 2023 IPE Real Estate Global Conference & Awards, held May 16th in Milan.
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EOS Stewardship Report 2022
EOS at Federated Hermes has published its third UK Stewardship Report as a service provider, with insights into our cost of living engagements and our work with Climate Action 100+.
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Special situations: Distressed debt in testing economic terrain
After a 2022 when primary markets were much more selective than in previous years, and on the backdrop of rising interest rates, a number of companies may find themselves struggling to refinance debt when facing a maturity wall in 2024 and 2025.
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What the Austrian school of economics got wrong
At the dawn or dusk of every recession, the time comes for some to reopen the Austrian economic textbooks (well, grimoire might be more appropriate). And on such occasions, the time to close them arises promptly.
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Feeding the world and protecting the planet: A biodiversity and climate challenge for investors
The food industry reaches into every corner of our world. It starts with seed suppliers, fertilisers and tractor producers, continues with farmers and fishing communities, then shifts into processing and manufacturing before ending with retail customers, catering companies and restaurants.
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Challenges faced by emerging market corporates
Emerging market (EM) corporations with foreign currency debt found life particularly tough during the decade-plus of dollar strength. Weak currencies put pressure on profits among companies with a domestic focus but with hard currency liabilities. High domestic interest rates make for high costs of funding.
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Black Book: A Painful Epiphany
The shock of 2022 was that bonds didn’t diversify equity risk. The extreme positive correlation of that year might not persist, but we show that for most of the past 250 years, a slightly positive correlation has been the norm. While it’s hard to identify the consistent forces that have driven this relationship over such an extended period, both the level and volatility of inflation point to the stock-bond correlation remaining in a range from zero to slightly positive.
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In a soft landing we trust – right?
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we explore the scenarios underlying different markets, as well as their one commonality: the anticipation of a soft landing. What are the implications for portfolios?
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Learnings from Earnings: Macro Crosscurrents Make Growth Elusive
Markets are being shaped by disparate trends from falling energy prices to rising interest rates. During first-quarter earnings season, company reports indicated that these crosscurrents are intensifying business challenges—and making it harder for investors to find resilient sources of growth.
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Markets rally despite bank scare: Q1 roundup
Global stocks rose as investors welcomed signs from central bank officials in the U.S. and Europe that interest rates may not rise as much as previously expected. Lower inflation levels, combined with a crisis in the banking sector, prompted central bankers to consider adjusting monetary policy in the months ahead, leaving investors to speculate that there may be no additional rate increases this year.
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Bridging the Gap: Insurers and Fixed Income
Can insurance investors take advantage of higher yields without crystalizing losses or assuming excessive risk ahead of a turn in the credit cycle?
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Asset Class Return Forecasts - Q2 2023
The effect of the fast-paced Quantitative Tightening (QT) embraced by Developed Market (DM) central banks (CB) is materialising across two fronts: price dynamics and financial stability.
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Fintech has changed finance forever. What comes next?
The disruption caused by fintech has been profound. How will digitalisation continue to alter the financial services landscape? We explore this in the Q2 issue of Futureturns, our quarterly report on trends investing in equity markets.
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Finding the silver linings: Private Equity International interview with Markus Benzler on the future of private equity
Public market corrections, inflation, increasing interest rates and political uncertainty are all having an impact on LPs’ capacity to invest in private equity. This is already leading to a knock-on effect on private equity fundraising, but what might this mean for the industry over the short to medium term? And where are the bright spots for investors in today’s environment and beyond? Markus Benzler, head of multi-managers private equity at UBS Asset Management, gives his take on how the market will evolve.
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Homing in on Quality in Climate Investing Strategies
Stock selection in a climate investing strategy takes more than just avoiding companies exposed to global warming risks. The process should intersect with an active search for diverse opportunities among companies helping to fight climate change, but with high-quality business models, too.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - May 2023
Topic of the Month: Our key takeaways from IMF’s Spring meetings
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Global Environmental Social and Governance Report 2022
Our Annual ESG Report sets out our approach to ESG and provides an update on the progress we and our portfolio companies have made in 2022.
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Schroders Global Real Estate Lens May 2023: your go-to guide to global property markets
Our latest analysis highlights the key data and trends that matter to global real estate investors.
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A buyer’s market: Roundtable with Jochen Mende and other industry experts on secondaries with Private Equity International
The secondaries industry exists to provide liquidity to an illiquid market. In the current period of high macroeconomic volatility, therefore, demand for secondaries’ solutions should be through the roof. To a certain extent, this is true.