All White papers articles – Page 219
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A new perspective: Diversified private debt portfolios for insurers
Private debt offers a broad and diverse investment universe that is often well-suited to an insurer’s balance sheet. However, approaches that focus on certain sub-types of private debt could create barriers to effective investment over time and inadvertently narrow the opportunity set.
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Brace Yourself for the Pivot from COVID to Climate
The pandemic forced governments to plow resources into consumption, but climate challenges will require lots (and lots) of investment.
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Stakeholders in the Just Transition - N°3 Territories and local communities
This third article in our series entitled «Stakeholders in the just transition» highlights the need for financial institutions to integrate the concerns of territories and local communities into their Just Transition strategies.
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Allocation Views: An Uneasy Truce
In this Allocation Views, our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team explores the potential benefits of adding alternative assets to a balanced stock/bond portfolio.
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For sustainability, diversification and upside potential: US value equities
It’s payback time for investors who have been seeing a return to favour of the equity value investment style after years of underperformance versus growth stocks. A sustainable investing approach in value equities can enable investors to benefit from attractive valuations of responsibly managed companies that can deliver steady long-term returns.
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HelloFresh: Sustainable by Nature
The NB Global Sustainable Equities team explain why they think the meal-kit sector aligns with their key investment criteria.
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Sustainability-linked bonds do not fit our impact framework
Our approach to impact investing, established in 2007, focuses on Use of Proceeds (UoP) and transparent, relevant impact measurement and reporting frameworks. We direct capital to social and environmental outcomes and continually engage with clients, industry working groups, issuers and underwriters on the merits of this approach.
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A factors-first approach to efficiently growing assets in the surplus space
Corporate pension plans’ top priority: Building efficient portfolios in the surplus space
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Job market integration within the Eurozone from 2008 to 2020: a challenge for the ECB?
The shock to the Eurozone job market in 2020 was considerable. Hardest hit were southern countries, young people and women. We discuss below these various factors of market fragmentation in the largest Eurozone countries.
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Special Europe Q&A: You asked, we answered
As a complement to the Special Europe report, we try to answer some of the key questions often asked.
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ESG in Tech: Innovation Isn’t Enough
The acceleration of growth in the digital economy through the pandemic has brought a renewed urgency to the debates surrounding technology companies and their impact on the environment and society. Investors should be concerned.
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Should Investors Stay Onboard the Chinese Dragon Boat?
Surprising policy developments are rocking the craft, but in our view the course remains set for the same long-term destination, and the uncertainty and volatility may present some attractive investment opportunities.
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No Place Like Home
The demand for single-family housing in the U.S. should be exceptionally strong over the next decade due to a combination of demographic forces and lagging underinvestment in residential stock. Hines Research estimates that the market will require 17 million single-family housing starts from 2021–30. This would represent a dramatic escalation of home construction relative to any decade of the past fifty years and a generational opportunity for residential lot development.
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Made in Marseille – The framework for a global biodiversity strategy?
The world’s largest organisation for the protection of nature - the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – holds its quadrennial gathering this week in Marseille. Rescheduled from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event is the biggest environmental conference involving governments, corporates and non-profit organisations.
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HY default rates: recent and expected trends
Persistent supportive funding conditions and the improved macro picture are consistent with a current and expected benign picture for US and European default cycles, which are likely to remain on a downward trend in the coming months.
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Special Europe: Investing in the recovery
As the European economy is recovering from the largest economic shock of modern history, we are revising our growth and inflation assumptions to the upside. Although the path to recovery is uneven among member states, we believe the EU will see two years of strong growth while inflation should revert below 2%.
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Global Recovery: Delayed Not Derailed
More than most Septembers, spring seems like a long time ago. Beyond nature’s promise of new growth, investors basked in a world on its way to reopening. Since then, spiking contagion, lingering bottlenecks, and a Chinese slowdown have raised fears of a gloomy winter ahead.
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How can we decarbonise the steel sector?
If we are to avoid dangerous climate change, we need to tackle emissions from the steel industry, writes Julien Bouyssou.
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When opportunity knocks. Investors look to themed infrastructure strategies
The energy transition, digital infrastructure and social infrastructure are three significant trends which were accelerated by COVID-19.
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Crisis or opportunity of a lifetime?: Rethinking the future of the planet
Will a world beset with challenges spin into catastrophic breakdown or spur humanity to change and reach new heights? John Elkington, widely regarded as the ‘godfather of sustainability’, contemplates the future with AIQ.