All Global articles – Page 96
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White papersIt’s not easy being green: analysing corporate treatment of carbon-intensive activities
In response to the climate crisis the economy shows clear signs of shifting from “brown” to “green”. Driving this secular change, companies lower their carbon footprint by winding down or divesting carbon-intensive activities.
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Research ReportIPUT launches Responsibility Report “Greening our Portfolio”
IPUT Real Estate, today issues its 2020 Responsibility Report, titled “Greening our Portfolio”.
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White papersThe “great acceleration” intensifies pressure on insurers
While the world is recovering from 2020’s massive shock, it accentuated the challenges facing insurers. There is now greater urgency to adapt business models and portfolios while looking afresh at asset-liability management.
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Research ReportClimate Action Report
Here, we summarise the innovations and commitments that lie at the heart of our climate strategy.
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White papersThe Great Reset: Rethinking Globalization
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to reset and rethink our approach for a better future.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Global, Edition 2 - 2021 - Inflation protection desirable
Economic performance varied by country in the first quarter, affected by different paces of progress against the virus. Real estate investment activity slipped slightly, but remained significantly above its nadir in 2020.
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White papersSuzano: engaging on ESG issues
Sao Paolo-based pulp and paper producer Suzano is a holding in the Federated Hermes Unconstrained Credit Fund.
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WebinarWebinar: 2021 Midyear Outlook
As we approach the mid-point of the year, and now more than a year from the commencement of the global pandemic, it’s time to look to the future with Capital Group senior investment professionals who will offer their views on how to navigate to economic recovery for the global economy and world markets.
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White papersPrivate credit markets - opportunities opening up across the spectrum
With countries around the world rolling out their vaccine programmes and with growing optimism about the outlook for the global economy, has a potential return to normality been reflected in private and illiquid credit?
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White papersBig Tech Stocks: How to gauge regulatory risk
When it comes to America’s biggest technology companies, it seems like regulatory risk has never been higher. Most large technology platforms are facing pressure from US and European authorities, while lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem more inclined to doing something — rather than nothing.
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PodcastMaking the REIT Move In Real Estate
With the virtual shift that COVID-19 placed on our society along with resulting closures of brick and mortar retail across the globe, REITs, or Real Estate Investment Trusts, may not have had their best year in 2020.
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White papersShifts & 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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White papersWhat 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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White papersStakeholders 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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PodcastThe 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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White papersShifts & 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 NewsNuveen 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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White papersInequality: 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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White papersInequality: 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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White papersMeasuring 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.
