Outlooks – Page 12
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2024 Investment Outlook
Cross Asset Investment Strategy Special Edition: Steering through turning tides
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The opportunities and challenges of international trade in agriculture
An imbalance between limited natural resources and the growing appetite for farm products makes agricultural trade critical to meeting global food demand, bringing with it further opportunities for agricultural producers, agribusinesses, and investors.
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Investment Outlook 2024: Infrastructure Equity
In our Schroders Capital Investment Outlook webinar series, our experts leveraged their extensive experience to guide you through investing across all asset classes of private markets. Hear our Infrastructure experts’ insights.
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PM Spotlight: The Upside of Volatility
Maulik Bhansali, Portfolio Manager, co-manages Allspring’s Core Fixed Income team. Read about how he and the team focus on security selection to drive alpha—especially as volatility rises.
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What does bank retrenchment mean for private credit investors?
Is bank retrenchment a myth? The GFC led to the introduction of Basel III, a set of financial reforms aiming to improve banks’ abilities to absorb shocks and increase their resilience against potential future crises.
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The Return of Industrial Policy
As governments play a bigger role in the economy, we think businesses and investors will need to think more about inflation, location and taxation.
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Climate-Related Stress-Testing and Net-Zero Valuation
This paper proposes a methodology for quantifying the climate-related transition impacts on energy-intensive companies. In this study, we use a publicly available dataset created by the Bank of Canada that combines the scenarios developed by the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model with the results from two macroeconomic models (ToTEM and BoC-GEM-Fin) to illustrate price and production patterns for 10 emission-intensive sectors across 8 aggregated regions.
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Balancing uncertainty and optimism
The economic data in 2023 was better than expected: inflation fell, employment remained resilient and we didn’t end up in recession – in fact growth was impressively resilient.
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Asset Class Returns Forecasts - Q4 2023
Recent geopolitical events and macroeconomic progresses are rising uncertainty on the global outlook and led to some adjustments on the short-term trajectory within our simulation horizon.
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Three Notable Trends in the World of Secondaries
Why we think macro uncertainty and the private equity liquidity squeeze are making secondary market conditions particularly favorable for targeted buyers.
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Defenders of a threatened world
Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately impacted by the economic, environmental, and social impacts of industrial projects. Nick Pelosi and Ellie Higgins explain how we engage with companies on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and community impact.
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A brave new world?
Recent AI breakthroughs have raised fears about job losses in the knowledge economy, and revived concerns about sophisticated profiling that can intensify polarisation. Nick Pelosi and Ross Teverson explain how we are engaging with companies to help mitigate these risks.
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Meta Platforms case study
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, our focus turned to how Meta could resolve its data privacy challenges and provide safeguarding policies that protect its users.
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Public Engagement Report Q3 2023
The Q3 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes focuses on our engagements with companies on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and the community impact of large industrial projects. Plus, the wider societal impacts of AI, and voting season highlights from developed Asia and emerging markets.
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Diversity of thought: Women in private equity roundtable with Nicola Goll
Private Equity International’s inaugural women in private equity roundtable in October started with a discussion on how private equity is becoming more gender diverse - slowly. The number of women in senior investment roles at UK firms, and in their European offices, has edged up to 11 percent from 10 percent in 2021, according to the latest diversity and inclusion survey carried out by Level 20 and the BVCA.
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Sustainable Finance or nothing!
An Interview with Jérôme Delmas, CEO of SWEN Capital Partners, and Isabelle Combarel, Deputy CEO Head of Sustainable Finance and Development
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Video killed the radio star: why private equity investors need to rethink the re-up
42 years ago, MTV introduced itself to the world with a song as prophetic as it was catchy. The Buggle’s hit song “Video Killed the Radio Star” ushered in a wildly different era for the consumption of music. We think private equity is facing its own MTV moment.
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Is sustainable aviation fuel an oxymoron?
Last September, EasyJet announced that their landmark carbon offsetting scheme, in which they claimed to offset all their emissions from flying, would end.
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Engaging on climate change: an emerging markets equity perspective
Following the publication of the first RBC EM Equity Climate report at the start of October, Portfolio Manager Richard Farrell highlights the importance of integrating climate-related risks and opportunities into the team’s emerging markets equity strategy.
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Impact investing is now
Sustainable investment has become a significant trend in financial markets as science and society address a growing range of issues that pose both risks and opportunities: biodiversity protection, water management, extreme weather events, diversity, equity, and inclusion, are just some of the topics on investors’ minds.