All Strategies articles – Page 4
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2024 Proxy Season Preview
No right versus wrong assessment can be applied to proxy voting. Assessing how proxy voting supports the overall investment process is what is most important. Rather than seeking to influence vote outcomes, the market should focus on influencing how investors use the proxy vote in the context of the investment objectives it seeks to achieve on behalf of clients.
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Responsible investing 2.0: Focus on generating sustainable returns
When seeking to invest in ways that advance sustainability goals and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns, it is important to focus on specific investment themes and monitor how those themes impact performance. Our team’s approach offers investors exposure to sustainability related investment themes that we believe will have an enduring impact on financial and investment performance over time.
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Great Expectations: Is engagement living up to its promise?
Is ‘engagement washing’ poised to be the next term maligning asset management’s ESG movement? Institutional investors often engage with companies they invest in to improve those companies’ environmental, social and governance practices – rivalling capital allocation as a core mechanism for achieving sustainable investment outcomes. But do engagement activities really deliver impactful, positive, real-world outcomes?
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Actis Promotes Neda Vakilian And Davi Carvalho Mota To Partner
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has announced that Neda Vakilian, Head of Actis’ Investor Solutions Group, and Davi Carvalho Mota, Director in Actis’ Long Life Infrastructure strategy, have both been promoted to partner effective 1 April 2024.
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Decarbonization Metrics for Real Estate Investment
Goal Setting for a Portfolio in the Context of Absolute vs. Intensity Metrics
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Engagement 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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Direct lending: the power of strategic alliances
In an increasingly competitive direct lending landscape, deal origination is critical to achieving consistent returns across the asset class.
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SDG Engagement Equity: 2023 Annual Report
In 2023, the SDG Engagement Equity Strategy had its second-best year in terms of overall return and its best year of relative performance.
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Quenching the semiconductor industry’s thirst
Innovative technologies are reducing the environmental impact of a water-intensive industry critical to the modern economy, writes Justin Winter, Senior Portfolio Manager at Impax Asset Management.
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Un-picking the Role of ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations tend to be factored into the investment process at the security-level, after a strategic asset allocation (SAA) process has already set the shape of the overall portfolio.
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Feast of opportunities: Six future food trends
The global food system is in a multi-decade period of upheaval. Governments, regulators, companies and consumers are rethinking the way food is produced and consumed in an increasingly resource-constrained world. Innovation and disruption are already happening and will, in our view, accelerate in the coming years.
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How Mega-Forces Will Reshape the Macro Regime and Investing
Three mega-forces seem set to dominate the investment landscape for the next decade or longer, with major implications for the macro regime and portfolio design.
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How to build a cross-asset value factor
MARS, our Multi-Asset Research Series, focuses on complex topics in the realm of multi asset to bring quantitative investment research back to Earth. This fifth edition addresses some of the complexities of forming a value strategy.
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Top Three Green Bond Myths
Despite the breadth and depth that the green bond market now offers, there are still a few hardwired misconceptions about the asset class. In this piece we want to share with you our thoughts on these myths.
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Hard and local currency bonds provide different routes to returns
Emerging market (EM) bonds are increasingly becoming a strategic holding for many investors but a key consideration in this is the different attributes of hard- and local currency-denominated bonds — the two broad sets of investments available in the asset class — and understanding the benefits each can bring to a portfolio.
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Mirror image: Will this year prove to be the opposite of 2023 for China equities?
Reflections on the many reasons behind our more buoyant outlook on Chinese stocks this year
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - March 2024
“While we expect the Fed, Bank of England and ECB to start rate cuts around June, we will keep an eye on the pace of disinflation for any surprises.”
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The Credit Opportunity in M&A
In an environment of tight spreads and low volatility, we believe the reemergence of mergers and acquisitions can be a source of idiosyncratic alpha in credit markets.
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Adapting to higher interest rates while optimizing prudential capital
As we enter 2024, the financial terrain remains shaped by high interest rates likely to persist at least through the first half of the year.
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ESG Thema #15 - Measuring the Biodiversity Footprints of Investments: An Assessment of the Metrics
The urgency and scale of biodiversity loss are exposing a high number of companies across sectors to significant financial risks. In this context, it has become increasingly necessary for investors to reliably assess the impact and dependence of companies on biodiversity.