All Risk Management articles – Page 6
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White papersA new cycle commences
The last two years have been testing for real estate investors in Europe. From the post-pandemic highs to a sharp reversal driven by inflation and interest rates, the investment environment feels as cold as the year to date has been warm. But just as past cycles turned, so will this one. And there are indications that it is.
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White papersSainsbury’s case study
Following research published by Oxfam on the supply chain human and labour rights risks that UK food retailers were exposed to, we engaged with Sainsbury’s to identify and manage these risks.
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White papersBasel III Endgame and the “Reg Cap” Opportunity
Tighter bank capital regulation looks set to make U.S. banks adopt a risk-transfer practice that has long been common in Europe—and attractive to investors.
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White papersRelative value in real assets: A spectrum of opportunities
Our real assets research team drills into proprietary data to compare risk and return across sectors.
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White papersA Framework for Value Investing
As providers of an active value strategy, our team has built an investment framework through study and experience that we believe can lead to persistent outperformance. In this memo we outline this investment process based on a compilation of insights published by our investment team.
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White papersWhy We Believe Quality Is a Good Guide for Value Investing
Value investing involves picking stocks that are trading at attractive prices as determined by metrics such as price book and price earnings. Clients sometimes ask us why Breton Hill takes a quality approach to value investing when so many of our peers are focused on distressed value. In this note we review the history of applying quality to value investing in an effort to improve outcomes. We then conduct an out-of-sample analysis to assess whether this effect still holds in the more recent decade subsequent to the publication of well-known quality papers.
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PodcastEM Debt: The Improving Risk/Reward Dynamics
Dr. Ricardo Adrogué joins the podcast to discuss why risks including those related to inflation, interest rates and EM elections are increasingly behind us, setting the stage for a possible resurgence in investor appetite for EM Debt.
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White papersPublic Engagement Report Q2 2024
The Q2 Public Engagement Report from EOS at Federated Hermes focuses on animal testing at pharmaceutical companies and some of the innovative alternatives becoming available. Plus, how investors can assess companies’ climate transition plans, and highlights from this year’s AGM season.
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White papersA Preliminary Language for a Post-Global World
This book sets out what we see as the key issues facing asset owners in the macro environment, and shares the outlook for capital markets, strategic allocation and the future of the investment industry. It will also explore how the next ten years are likely to be very different from the 1980–2020 period.
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White papersEvaluating risk and reward in an ever-changing world
Private markets have grown exponentially since the Global Financial Crisis, and the growth story is far from over. We explore the risks and rewards of this often complex world and why expertise is crucial in achieving tangible results.
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White papersCalculated Risk Management: Strategy, Tools and Culture for Equity Portfolios
Investors need a better grasp of risk-management tools to gauge a portfolio’s strategic resilience in a rapidly changing world.
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White papersSpotting Hidden Extension Risk in Corporate Hybrids
Failure to call a hybrid at the first opportunity is rare but, if realised, can be negative for investors—can we identify the telltale signs of heightened risk?
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White papersStay Focused on Earnings
Should a sticky inflation release cause investors to revise their outlook for equities?
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White papersPhysical Climate Risks and Underwriting Practices in Assets and Portfolios
Physical climate risk data can be a powerful tool for managing asset and portfolio risk and returns. Learn what strategies leading firms are using to manage physical climate risks and navigate market challenges. The latest report from the Urban Land Institute and LaSalle Investment Management builds on their previous report, How to Choose, Use, and Better Understand Climate Risk Analytics, to describe how leading firms are leveraging physical climate-risk data in underwriting practices. With insight into asset- and portfolio-level risk becoming increasingly easy to obtain, new challenges lie in effective interpretation and integration of information into investment practices. Relying on research and interviews with industry leaders, this report provides a nuanced exploration of this emergent issue.
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White papersThe climate-health nexus: risks and opportunities
As investors, we are increasingly considering and assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the economy, financial markets, and our portfolios.
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White papersEngagement case study: Prudential
We have been engaging with Prudential since 2010 on a range of issues including board effectiveness, culture, risk management, sustainability strategy, and remuneration.
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PodcastThe Investment Podcast: The long-term megatrend of European private asset-backed finance
While Europe’s private asset-backed finance markets have been growing in importance for a number of years, it’s only in recent years where we’ve seen the regulatory pressures that banks are facing come to the fore, fuelling a strong desire to shrink balance sheets and increase capital.
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White papersTaking Flight: The Opportunity in Aircraft Financing
Investments in aircraft can offer steady cash flow and a return profile that’s uncorrelated to broad market indices.
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White papersCosting the Earth: measuring corporations’ impact on biodiversity loss
Investors can no longer afford to ignore the devastating economic effects of biodiversity loss, but they need better tools to assess and manage the risks. We introduce the new scientific research by our academic partners at the MISTRA FinBio programme which should help guide investors.
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White papersHow distressed debt can help spread risk and diversify returns
In 2024, there are multiple macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges that are likely to continue to impact global markets. At the same time these challenges are likely to lead to a rich opportunity set for a special situations investment strategy.
