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February, 2019
Can you plan for the long term without knowing the implications of climate change?
Stephen Hearle, Director, Global Institute Business, Nordea Asset Management. Stephen Hearle of Nordea Asset Management advises sustainable investors of the risks and opportunities resulting from climate change Last year closed with a startling fact: 2018 was the 4th hottest year on record. More and more data is showing that if today’s industrial ...
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February, 2019
Value investing in emerging markets: lessons from history
Daniel Nicholas, Client Portfolio Manager, Harris Associates. Daniel Nicholas, Client Portfolio Manager at Harris Associates, looks back to the volatility in Asian markets during the 1990s and draws six key conclusions for investing in emerging markets Emerging markets are a lot less emerging than they used to be. A more integrated global economy ...
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February, 2019
Moving forward from index allocation approaches in EM debt
Matthew Murphy, CFA, CAIA, Institutional Portfolio Manager, Global Income Group, Eaton Vance. Matthew Murphy of Eaton Vance argues that the diversity and range of available investments in the emerging markets regions provide opportunities that should not be overlooked by investors Given the potential offered by the asset class, local authority pension ...
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February, 2019
New partnership to study impact of ESG factors on portfolios
Fund manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) have formed a partnership to study how the integration of ESG factors in the investment process may improve the risk-return profile of a portfolio. The results of the research are expected to support NN IP and others in the investment community to develop ...
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February, 2019
Bond market now expects to see the Fed cut rates
The bond market now believes that the US Federal Reserve has stopped raising fixed income rates and will cut rates next, according to AXA Investment Managers’ CIO fixed income, Chris Iggo. Looking at recent statements from the Fed, Iggo said that its latest statements have confirmed that the chances of interest rates going up again in the United States ...
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February, 2019
The year ahead: a global outlook
Alicia Levine, Chief Strategist, BNY Mellon Investment Management. Shamik Dhar, Chief Economist, BNY Mellon Investment Management. Inflation, trade wars and euro debt are among the potential headwinds for the world’s economy in 2019 – but that doesn’t mean the overall global picture is necessarily a negative one, say BNY Mellon Investment ...
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February, 2019
New thematic investment firm offers focus on ESG
One of the world’s largest fund managers, Natixis Investment Managers, has created a new boutique manager for thematic investing, based on high conviction and active management of global equities. The new firm, Thematics Asset Management, will offer global thematic strategies such as safety, water, artificial intelligence and robotics, from the second ...
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February, 2019
Investing in Asia through private equity
Brian Lim, Partner and Head of Asia and Emerging Markets, Pantheon. Brian Lim from Pantheon surveys today’s asia markets, identifying areas and asset classes that could offer attractively-valued investment opportunities Asia is today a mainstream investment market. In 20171, it represented 40% of the global listed equities market cap, and in the ...
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February, 2019
Hearthstone closes private equity fund with above target results
Hearthstone Investment Management Limited, an institutional investment manager specialising in UK residential property (private rented sector), has announced the final close above target of its 10 year closed-ended private equity fund, Hearthstone Residential Fund 1 (HRF1), with just over £200 million. The Merseyside Pension Fund and the Tyne and Wear ...
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February, 2019
Brunel hires two managers for low vol global equities
Brunel Pension Partnership has appointed two asset managers, Robeco and Quoniam, for a low volatility global equities portfolio with an initial value of £400 million. Brunel CIO, Mark Mansley, said that the asset pool set up low volatility global equity as its second sub-fund within its authorised contractual scheme (ACS), operated by FundRock, and it ...
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