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Homing in on Quality in Climate Investing Strategies
Stock selection in a climate investing strategy takes more than just avoiding companies exposed to global warming risks. The process should intersect with an active search for diverse opportunities among companies helping to fight climate change, but with high-quality business models, too.
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Cross Asset Investment Strategy - May 2023
Topic of the Month: Our key takeaways from IMF’s Spring meetings
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When policy meets action: Seismic changes in the plastic recycling market
With many companies trailing their targets for reducing new plastic use, governments are implementing more ambitious targets for the use of recycled plastic content as the plastic packaging market continues to grow. Pyrolysis, a form of chemical recycling, could offer an innovative solution for dealing with hard-to-process mixed plastic waste.
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When can we look beyond the recession?
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we look to history to try to gauge when we can start preparing for a post-recession rebound.
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*Setting out our progress towards a sustainable transition*
Our 2022 Sustainability Report highlights our key achievements. These include our continued focus on integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into our fund offering, updated documentation with new sustainability indicators, and our commitment to support investing aligned with achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
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Macroeconomics, Geopolitics, and Strategy - May 2023
Will real bond yields come back down?
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Our key takeaways from IMF’s Spring meetings
Investor sentiment is downbeat, but not overly bearish. With tightening credit conditions, our US growth outlook is lower compared to the IMF’s, while we are more optimistic on China. This supports a cautious stance and a search for opportunities across the emerging world, starting with China.
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The Role of Private Assets in Strategic Asset Allocation: a Macro Perspective
The appropriate weight of private assets in portfolios is arguably the key question for strategic asset allocation today. These investments were the fastest-growing share of many portfolios for the past decade: Will the abrupt change in investment regime and greater need for liquidity halt that increase?
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Update on India: Time to take another look
India’s stock market has underperformed global markets overall as well as some of its emerging market regional peers so far this year. However, there are signs that perhaps the tide has turned, and investors may be taking another look.
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Stress in US regional banks continues, while the Fed moves towards a pause
The recent banking stress has been a real test of capital and liquidity regulations enacted after the 2008 crisis.
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How regulatory momentum is helping drive biodiversity-aware investment
Investments that take account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have always gone hand-in-hand with public policy. As investors become increasingly aware of the potential financial effects of climate change, so too regulators begin to impose demands that echo the concerns and may harden those financial effects on asset prices.
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Understanding China’s local government debt risk
Recent media reports on China’s debt-ridden Guizhou province pleading for Beijing to bail it out have raised market concerns about billions of dollars in local government debt which has been seen as ‘the canary in the coalmine’. The issue with impoverished Guizhou’s sizeable debt burden is illustrative of problems at China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs).
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Infrastructure debt: An essential ingredient
With inflation returning and investors on the hunt for stable yields, insurance companies should explore how an infrastructure debt allocation can support their investment strategy.
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Like 10,000 Interns: How ChatGPT Can Liberate Investment Analysts
ChatGPT is generating excitement about the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape business. For investment firms, AI can help execute many menial functions to free up analysts for deeper research dives, armed with more information than they could ever process alone.
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A buyer’s market: Roundtable with Jochen Mende and other industry experts on secondaries with Private Equity International
The secondaries industry exists to provide liquidity to an illiquid market. In the current period of high macroeconomic volatility, therefore, demand for secondaries’ solutions should be through the roof. To a certain extent, this is true.
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Agrivoltaics — The Future Of Agriculture?
A rising phenomenon in the renewable energy sector is the increasing adoption of agrivoltaic systems, also known as APV. These constitute the dual and mutually beneficial use of land for agricultural purposes and photovoltaic (PV) power generation.
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The Opportunity Cost of Waiting for Goldilocks
Waiting for a “Goldilocks moment” to add duration back into your portfolio can be costly and difficult to execute. Find out why allocating across duration exposures, or “riding the curve,” may offer a better approach.
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Debt’s defence against volatility
The appetite for infrastructure debt continues to grow, with a well-developed pipeline of investments, says Infranity’s CEO Philippe Benaroya
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A paradigm shift for European debt
Private debt funds are filling the gap left by bank retrenchment, says Sandrine Richard, Head of private debt at Generali Investments Partners
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Is There A Need For A Chief Liquidity Officer?
Many institutional investors have a Chief Risk Officer assisting the CIO to measure and monitor portfolio volatility. However, for many long-term investors (e.g., pensions, sovereign wealth funds and defined contribution plans) volatility comes and goes and volatility risk is rarely life-threatening. In contrast, liquidity events can create a sudden and unexpected need to raise cash and can threaten a fund’s survival.