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White papersRi Tool: A Portfolio Manager’s Perspective Responsible Investment | March 2019
Our proprietary responsible investment ratings is an innovative tool that combines ESG and financial stewardship data to create a single company rating for 5,500 listed equities globally. So how do our PMs use it?
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White papersRi Tool: A Portfolio Manager’s Perspective
Our proprietary responsible investment ratings is an innovative tool that combines ESG and financial stewardship data to create a single company rating for 5,500 listed equities globally. So how do our PMs use it?
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White papersA Guide To Responsible Investment Ratings At Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Our proprietary responsible investment (RI) ratings provide our global investment team with a robust responsible investment framework and enhanced analysis of over 5,500 companies around the world.
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White papersItaly: A Long And Winding Road
Arm-wrestling within the Italian government and between Italy and Brussels to find a solution to the Italian budget and avoid the Excessive Deficit Procedure. After Italy’s exit from a technical recession in H2 2018, economic data are still pointing to weakness, and many risks loom in the second half of this year.
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White papersRisk Factors, Macroeconomic Context And Forecasts - July 2019
Risk Factors
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - July 2019
CIO Views: Central Banks Fuel markets: Illusion vs Reality This Month’s Topic: Italy: A Long and Winding Road
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White papersM&G 2018 RPI Report
Our latest report outlines our responsible approach to business thinking and how we continue to drive progress towards our 2025 RPI targets, as part of M&G Real Estate’s vision for a cleaner, greener and better world.
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White papersTackling climate change through property investing
Property investors are in a strong position to mitigate the impact of climate change, with real estate producing around 40% of global carbon emissions.
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White papersG20: Market Relief, Eyes Now On Central Bank's Execution
The worst case scenario of further trade escalation has been averted. The G20 meeting over the weekend resumed the negotiations between China and US on trade, after the tariffs increase in May on$200bn of Chinese products, and the consequent Chinese retaliation,which both put financial markets under pressure and increased downside risk to the economic outlook.
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White papersShaping real assets to create a sustainable future
Growing recognition of the ability to use ESG credentials to lower risk and capture value, and meet the rising expectation from occupiers, was conveyed in a global property investor survey by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). It found that 90% of respondents planned to further analyse ESG fundamentals over the next 12 months.
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White papersPricing ESG risk in sovereign credit
Building on our studies showing a strong relationship between the environmental, social and governance performance of companies and their credit spreads, we have partnered with researcher Beyond Ratings to determine whether similar connections exist in the sovereign credit market.
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White papersHow to differentiate emerging countries? New Approaches For Classification And Typology
Once accepted the idea that the emerging world may behave like a block in period of crises (as the group of advanced countries also does), one must wonder whether one should go beyond that and consider that the emerging world deserves better: the wide divergence between countries, the health of some countries (sometimes better than some advanced countries) simply mean that it does not make sense to view the “emerging world” as a whole, as a block, but as well-defined, specific and homogeneous subsets.
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White papersEmerging Markets: Vulnerability And Contagion Risks... Fragile Vs. Anti-Fragile Countries
This article is aimed at analysing contagion within the emerging world in the past decades, and at presenting investment strategies to limit negative effects of contagion and / or to benefit from it.
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White papersEconomic Outlook: Japanification
Political risk is ‘trumping’ economics, with populism, disparate prosperity, and stirrings that globalisation needs to reverse all offering a paradigm shift that may prove as forceful as the fall of communism in 1989, and even the New World Order after 1945.
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How Europe Took a Knife to a Gunfight
The continent has made remarkable progress… but its economic interests remain vulnerable in a world that once again favors a sharp elbow over a memorandum of understanding.
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White papersWhy cashflow driven investment is changing the pension investment landscape
Interview with Sebastien Proffit, Head of Portfolio Solutions, Fixed Income, AXA Investment Managers.
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White papersFixed Income strategies: Bridging the gap between quantitative and fundamental approaches
Bonds market faced low rates since many years. And they probably won’t rise up soon.
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White papersSector series: Impact of demographic dynamics on the multifamily landscape
Of the main property sectors, multifamily remains highly sought after by investors. Fundamentals are currently healthy with vacancy rates in equilibrium. Rent growth is tracking well ahead of broader inflation.
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White papersGlobal Investment Views - July 2019
The journey from market complacency to awareness of fragilities is in full swing, and the market correction in May is part of that, as is the recent recovery fuelled by dovish Central Banks (CB). Aware investors should recognise that the late cycle phase and mature market trends require improving fundamentals and positive political events to deliver sustainable uptrends in risk assets.
