All Global articles – Page 94
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Covid, a stepping stone to fixing climate change
The world stands to lose nearly half of its potential economic output by the end of the century. That’s the shortfall we face if we fail to make further progress on climate change.
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The COP that was not – Will postponing COP26 affect global climate action?
While global emissions are expected to be considerably lower in 2020 as a result of COVID-19, postponing the COP26 meeting has sparked concerns about a wasted year for political action on climate change. How will these tumultuous 12 months affect the global climate landscape?
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How ESG can help build resilience in Buy and Maintain credit strategies
Responsible investment has always been about the long term. Equity investors want to know a company isn’t vulnerable to global shifts around environmental or social issues and for fixed income investors, looking to more distant horizons, it might be about ensuring a business can be part of a resilient strategy for the next 20 years.
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Replay Webinar | Investing in credit 26 11 2020
Credit is set to play a significantly bigger role in the future of returns. Central banks’ support will continue to provide stability to the sector but companies’ fundamental are deteriorating and defaults are rising, how to set the scene in the current covid - disrupted credit environment? During this insightful debate, our boutiques’ experts analysed the credit space under various angles:
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Global Investment Views - December 2020
As we approach year-end, markets can count on two pieces of news to propel some optimism. The first comes from the US, where the Biden victory, without a real Blue Wave, is seen by markets as the best possible outcome.
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A Sustainable Option
The launch of S&P 500 ESG Index options marks a step forward for both ESG investing and the options market.
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The Path to Carbon Reduction
As investors that take climate change leadership into consideration, we often ask ourselves, how robust and meaningful are these goals and how do a company’s climate and business goals align?
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2021 Investment Outlook - Market rotations in an uneven recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic drove an unprecedented collapse in economic activity in H1, which was followed by a desynchronized rebound. The recovery phase has been uneven, with the virus cycle dictating the sequence of it. We believe that the damage to the global economy will last well beyond 2021. Output and personal income losses, the rise of inequality and the disruption in some sectors will be the legacies of the pandemic. Expecting that a vaccine will cause these to dissipate within a few months is too optimistic.
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Social bonds: financing the recovery and long-term inclusive growth
With its triple impact on education, income and health, the Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated existing inequalities, both among and within countries. An additional 71 million people, concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.
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Solving for 2021
With shifting political dynamics, and pandemic numbers spiking even as we receive good news on vaccines, we believe the range of pathways through this unprecedented period continues to warrant strategic navigation.
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#TheZero
With financial repression here to stay for what could be a prolonged period, there is a need to solve the problem of #TheZero.
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Our debt to nature
For the most part, companies have taken the immense value of nature for granted, but global ecosystems are now threatened at unprecedented levels.
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How ILS now offer investors more than diversification
Insurance linked securities are known as a valuable diversification tool, but recent insurance market dynamics mean investors are also getting better yields. We take a look at why.
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Climate is one thing – but how can the finance sector address biodiversity risk?
How do you calculate the value of a tree, or the microbes supporting it, or the more complex organisms that live in or depend on it? How do you value the system interlinking and supporting these entities, and everything around them?
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A Vaccine to End All Lockdowns?
Vaccine progress led a rally in stocks, though questions remain. The PBOC is expected to keep policy steady at its November meeting amid a recovering economy, and despite positive data, full recovery in U.S. employment isn’t likely until greater childcare options are available.
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The world that COVID built
2020 will go down in history as the year of the pandemic; an epic shock for societies and economies with dramatic ramifications on people and industries. This has propelled us into a new era, in which high uncertainty is likely to remain the base case for some time to come.
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The Circular Edition 3, 2020 - Keeping you in the sustainability loop
Covid-19 continues to throw curve-balls in 2020, but for those investors with sustainability in mind, the long game remains in view. We’ve summed up our recent insights on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to bring you the latest edition of The Circular.
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The coronavirus and its impact on SDG 8
How can the actions of companies affect Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8: economic growth and decent work for all? Has the coronavirus interrupted progress towards this goal? To find out, tune in to Fundamentals.
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Microfinance: why grass roots EM investing has proved resilient
As the pandemic unfolded, concerns arose that it could be crippling for some emerging markets, but many have been surprisingly robust. The microfinance experts at BlueOrchard explain why.
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Expert Roundtable: Sustainable High Yield Investing
We believe environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations matter in high yield investing, and that, as providers of new capital, bondholders may have more influence than they think.