All Global articles – Page 66
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White papersCreating value by addressing social injustice
Social injustice occurs when people do not have access to the same rights and opportunities afforded to others, due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, disabilities or other characteristics. Examples include inequitable access to employment, education, housing, health services and finance; negative stereotypes; and poor and marginalised communities’ greater exposure to pollution and climate change.
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White papersThe Case for Investing in Senior Secured Bonds
From capital structure seniority and high historical recovery rates, to lower interest rate sensitivity and compelling yields, global senior secured bonds offer a number of potential advantages.
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White papersInflation fighters: The case for real assets
Allocating to listed real assets may help investors better manage inflation risks—while also enhancing diversification potential and risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersSpotlight on Fixed Income: Looking beyond the uncertainty
There is no doubt that investors today face an exceptionally tricky environment, with a host of issues clouding the outlook for global growth.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Edition 2, 2022
Global real estate performance remained strong in the first quarter. Investment activity pulled back slightly from the record high at the end of 2021 and the pace of cap rate and yield compression eased. The war in Ukraine is curbing economic growth, boosting inflation and is expected to have a cooling impact on real estate returns.
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White papers*Pushing ahead in the age of sustainable transformation*
In its 2021 Sustainability Report, BNP Paribas Asset Management stresses the undiminished – and increasingly urgent – need to mobilise capital for sustainable investment solutions that can support a net zero pathway, protect biodiversity and facilitate inclusive growth.
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White papersOur progress towards net zero in real assets: A Q&A with Ed Dixon
One year on from publishing our 2040 net-zero pathway for real assets, Ed Dixon talks through some of the key highlights, challenges and priorities for 2022.
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White papersEOS Stewardship Report 2021
EOS at Federated Hermes publishes Stewardship Report 2021. Monitoring engagement outcomes is crucial, to ensure that our approach is effective and achieving the desired results. This year’s report includes expanded sections on our diversity, equity and inclusion approach, and on how we are responding to market-wide and systemic risks. ...
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White papersTake note: Finding opportunity in mispriced corporate hybrids
In our latest white paper, Robin Usson, senior credit analyst, asks: Is there scope to extract structural alpha from misunderstood extension risk?
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White papersESG Materiality Q2 2022
In the latest ESG Materiality newsletter, Olivia Lankester, director of responsible investing & sustainability, global emerging markets, outlines how the invasion of Ukraine has accelerated the sustainable energy transition, pushing up demand for ‘green’ metals and components required to facilitate electrification.
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White papersInvesting in the earth: why soil health matters
In a briefing to investors, Walter Jehne, co-founder of NGO Regenerate Earth, argued that a focus on cutting emissions misses the point when it comes to understanding what a healthy biosphere could do to sequester carbon.
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White papersPlus and minus: can QT annihilate QE (and other anti-inflation questions for financial markets)
Fiorino queries whether investors should expect an equal-and-opposite reaction as central banks release the anti-QE solution into the real world…
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White papersMarket snapshot: Slowdown fears send equities spinning
Many analysts are revising growth forecasts for China as strict lockdowns in the world’s second largest economy stymie business activity. A soft landing looks increasingly unlikely as central banks struggle to calibrate a policy response that addresses high inflation without killing the economic expansion.
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White papersFederated Hermes Stewardship Report 2021
At Federated Hermes we believe the investment industry can be a powerful force for good, building a fairer, more equitable world for all – and that active ownership and engagement is the best way to achieve this. In this, our second annual Stewardship Report, we provide an update on our efforts towards effective and outcomes-driven stewardship.
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White papersFederated Hermes Climate Change High Yield Credit strategy, interim report 2022
In this inaugural report, we delve into what makes the Federated Hermes Climate Change High Yield Credit strategy unique. As well as introducing our process and team, the report provides an overview of our proprietary Climate Change Impact (CCI) score, complete with portfolio examples to illustrate the scoring system in practice.
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White papersIdiosyncratic returns - consistent alpha across different style cycles
In 2017, RLAM launched two global equity strategies – Global Equity Select and Global Equity Diversified. The strategies have since produced four years of attractive absolute and relative returns, continuing an impressive track record from a strategy that was initially launched in 2002.
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White papersApproaching uncertainty with confidence in emerging markets fixed income
The war in Ukraine has added continued volatility to emerging markets fixed income assets. According to our latest study, institutional investors around the world are wary of the war’s market and economic impacts but remain optimistic for the months ahead.
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White papersInflation: Higher but Not Forever
High inflation and the consequences of attempts to curb it are a top concern for today’s investors. We believe that, by hiking rates, policymakers can eventually slow demand enough to subdue price pressures, even in an environment of constrained supply. But this process takes time.
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White papersNavigating an inflationary environment in US and global equities
Forty years … That’s how long it has been since the Great Inflation, which lasted from 1965 to 1982 and saw inflation in the US climb as high as 13.5%. According to Michael Bryan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, it was the “defining macroeconomic event of the second half of the twentieth century … there were four economic recessions, two severe energy shortages, and the unprecedented implementation of wage and price controls”.
