All Global articles – Page 76
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Shifts & Narratives #7 - Opening the Pandora’s box of social risks: Consequences for investors
The Covid-19 crisis can be considered a turning point for social issues: it has put global socio-economic inequalities in the spotlight and made them more concrete than ever before. It has also clearly shown the tragic effects, from an economic and societal perspective, that systemic shocks can have on unequal, non-resilient societies.
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Weathering Climate Change: Opportunities and Risks in an Altered investment Landscape
PGIM partnered with Greenwich Associates to conduct a study of institutional investors to understand the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, as well as how CIOs incorporate climate change into their investment process (if at all). Among other findings, “regional” and “action” gaps were uncovered.
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Allocation Views: The Great Reopening Continues
With a focus on fixed income, our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team explore asset classes that are best positioned for growth as the global economy recovers from the pandemic.
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What is the future for climate disclosure?
It’s only a matter of time before companies will have to report on their climate-related risks. They should get ahead by putting the processes in place to do so now, says Thibaud Clisson.
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Stakeholders in the Just Transition - N°2 Consumers
The objective of a “just transition” was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. It aims to make the transition to low-carbon economies fair to all stakeholders: workers, consumers, local communities, and society at large.
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The Investment Podcast: Navigating the road to real estate recovery
Picking up on the themes from their latest Global Real Estate Outlook, the real estate team at M&G Investments discuss the outlook across different sectors and geographies. Which could see rapid growth and which may lag behind?
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Shifts & Narratives #5 - A unique crisis that opens the way to multiple regime shifts
The Covid-19 crisis is exceptional in many ways. It is the most serious health crisis since the Spanish flu a century ago. This crisis resulted in an unprecedented contraction of activity in 2020 and in the deepest global recession since World War II.
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Asset Manager News
Nuveen launches Global Core Impact Bond strategy
Nuveen, the global investment manager with over $1.2 trillion in assets under management, announces the launch of a Global Core Impact Bond strategy.
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Quick Thoughts: A Very Hot Housing Market Globally
Our Chief Market Strategist, Stephen Dover, discusses how the pandemic may have globally fueled inflation in housing and the supply chains that build them.
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Inequality: what is at stake (2/4)* - Pro-Piketty and Anti-Piketty: A review of the literature in 20 topics
No one is disputing that Piketty’s books are ground-breaking, that his research and his team’s research are fundamental, or that their databases and reports are invaluable. Moreover, this research puts economics back in history, which is highly commendable.
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Inequality: what is at stake (1/4)* - Globalisation, growth, financial liberalisation and inequality
With the misdeeds of globalisation, the rise in inequalities and the resulting perception of injustice have been subjects that have fuelled many debates for a little over ten years. The theme of inequalities has even come to the centre of many political programs.
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Carbon Credits: Seeing the wood for the trees
As governments and companies strive to reduce carbon emissions and achieve net zero, questions are being asked about the role of natural climate solutions. We analyse differing approaches to offsetting and their impact on forest management.
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Measuring and Pricing Cyclone-Related Physical Risk under Changing Climate
We propose a statistical methodology to quantify the financial implications of tropical cyclone-related physical risks implied by climate change.
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* How can stewardship help tackle biodiversity loss? *
It is increasingly clear that climate change is a significant cause of biodiversity loss, but biodiversity loss is also driving climate change. As an investor, BNP Paribas Asset Management believes it cannot address one without considering the other in conversations with the companies we invest in and with other investors.
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Real Estate Outlook – Edition 2, 2021 - Seeing an uneven recovery
Global real estate markets are still coming to terms with the economic fallout from the pandemic, but showed a strong performance in the first quarter, driven by the industrial sector.
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China in the global inflation scare
Markets are worrying about rising inflation, but to date, there has been no evidence yet of ‘demand-pull’ inflation amplifying cost-push pressures, especially in Asia. There is also no sign of a global wage-price spiral. Nevertheless, we believe there are reasons to be concerned.
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Inflation and REITs
As the world reopens at an accelerated rate, we are facing an unintended consequence, inflation. Although economists’ debate whether its transitory or structural, the bottom line is prices have risen. Inflationary periods can adversely affect investor performance, yet there are opportunities to position a portfolio to make inflation work for you.
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Medical miracle: Health care innovation saves the world
Several drug developers brought COVID-19 vaccines from initial trials to people’s arms in less than a year. This lightning quick pace defied the expectations of health care professionals and saved countless lives. It was far faster than the development of any similar drug.
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Global Real Estate Outlook: Navigating the road to recovery
The unparalleled economic disruption and acceleration of structural trends caused by the pandemic has focused investors on positioning for the long term. But what is the final destination?
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Addressing climate change: how to integrate climate into your cashflow driven strategy
We believe cashflow driven investors should Assess, Integrate and Monitor (AIM) their portfolios through a climate-related lens to help deliver resilient, sustainable income to pay scheme members.