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White papersEquity factor investing: Putting performance into perspective
What drives the performance of equity multifactor funds? While the value, quality, low risk and momentum factor styles have outperformed over the long term, there have been periods of underperformance. These include the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and now the COVID-19 crisis. Value factor underperformance explains this latest drawdown.
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White papersHow Shopping—and Investing—Might Be Enabling Modern Slavery
It may seem shocking, but a simple trip to the local store to pick up fresh produce or clothing could enable human exploitation. For investors, those same connections can exist within their portfolios—and it takes more than a passive effort to root them out.
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White papersKey investment decisions in a multi-factor equity framework
When it comes to building an efficient and consistent multi-factor equity strategy, investors need to decide which factors to use and how to diversify their exposure. This determines the long-term risk-adjusted performance of the strategy.
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White papersThe Best Way to Get a Car Out of a Ditch
And how investors should judge the next round of government spending.
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White papersRare earth metals – How to limit the impact of the clean energy transition?
With demand for rare earth metals set to skyrocket to support new energy technologies, how can the world transition to sustainable energy sustainably?
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White papersFinding the Right Sovereign ESG Indicators: A Greek Tragedy?
On our mini odyssey through the vast seas of sovereign ESG indicators, we sought to identify data and scores from reliable third parties—which would not only provide benchmarking criteria between countries, but also serve as an effective screening tool to identify outliers.
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White papersCautious Optimism or Cold Realism?
Signs show divergence between China’s supply and demand recovery. The first full week of the new U.S. administration will give more clarity on what can feasibly be expected to pass this term. Meanwhile, Italian politics raises questions over the EU recovery fund.
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White papersImpact investing: How private and listed markets offer choice for investors seeking positive change
Impact investing is helping investors tap into key financial markets megatrends while addressing some of our most important sustainability challenges.
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White papersCredit Pulse: market update - 15 January 2021
How does the fixed-income team at the international business of Federated Hermes see this year shaping up?
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White papersWeekly Credit Insight: Chart of the week: fallen angels fly high
The topic of fallen angels – issuers downgraded from investment-grade status – attracted much attention last year. Of course, this is not surprising: the number of companies downgraded from investment grade to high yield reached an all-time high in 2020.
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White papersValue or Values?
As investors increasingly seek strategies that both deliver returns and advance core values, asset managers have been testing different approaches.
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White papersFive reasons why EM equities could power ahead in 2021
Has the tide finally turned for emerging markets equities after a decade of trailing US markets? It’s a question we often hear. After two consecutive years of solid gains for the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index, emerging markets appear well positioned for further growth. The US dollar has weakened, commodity prices have firmed, US-China trade tensions may simmer down and there are a number of investible opportunities that could allow investors to take advantage of a potential cyclical recovery in global markets.
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White papersLooking forward to a sustainable 2021
In 2021, BNP Paribas Asset Management aims to build out the pillars of its approach to sustainable investing, extending the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in investment processes, says Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability.
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White papersWebinar | Asset Allocation Committee Outlook 1Q 2021: A Tentative Recovery
“Investors who can tolerate volatility for the next six months or so could take the AAC’s views as a signal to bound out of the sickbed and fully embrace risk. The rest of us may do better by continuing to give portfolios the TLC they need: taking risk judiciously and in a balanced way.”
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White papersRates Markets Are Normalizing
It is far too early for taper talk, in our view, but the bias of risk is still toward higher rates to come.
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White papersEM Debt: Where is the Value Today?
Barings’ Cem Karacadag discusses the outlook for emerging markets debt, including the uneven impact of the pandemic, how rising interest rates and fluctuating currencies may influence the picture, and the increasing role that ESG is playing in identifying winners and losers.
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White papersItaly: ECB’s Umbrella To Protect Bond Market, Despite Uncertain Political Situation
On 13 January, Italia Viva – a minor coalition partner led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi – pulled out of the ruling coalition, leaving the government short of a majority in the Senate. However, we believe that snap elections are unlikely for now.
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White papersFound in space: how markets could make contact with reality in 2021
This month, Fiorino looks to the stars for an alien-eye view of Earthly financial conditions…
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White papersThe Blue Wave & The Bond Market
The most notable event shaping the U.S. bond market to start the New Year was the outcome of the Georgia Senate races.
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White papersAn Investment Scorecard for the Biden Administration
History will judge him on many dimensions, but what can investors reasonably expect that will improve the value of USA Inc.?
