Webinar – Climate Risk: Preparing Your Portfolio for the Storm As climate change continues to impact the wider economy and drives further regulation, investors urgently need to incorporate the climate risks and opportunities across all asset classes into their portfolio.
Investment Perspective The relentless run in risk assets over the last five months finally faded a bit in early September, as the S&P 500 fell nearly 8% and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell 11%. This year’s returns have been heavily influenced
Weekly commentary The broad macro backdrop has been improving, risk assets have rallied a long way, and increasing market volatility points to risks that investors will need to navigate as the U.S. presidential election draws closer. All this leaves us …
This paper presents a simple holistic approach to build climate risk-resilient investment portfolios based on the three key objectives of the Paris Agreement: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, alignment of financial flows with a low-carbon, climate resilient pathway. We
Multi-asset | September 2020 Most asset market returns can be distilled down to two basic elements: movements in cash flows and discount rates. In the past month or so, for risky assets such as equities, each has moved in a
This article studies the impact of carbon risk on stock pricing. To address this, we consider the seminal approach of Görgen et al. (2019), who proposed estimating the carbon financial risk of equities by their carbon beta.
Weekly Investment Commentary U.S. equities rallied again last week, with the S&P 500 Index climbing 2.5% as it approached a new all-time high.1 Economic data continued to come in ahead of expectations and corporate earnings results have not been quite
Sovereign wealth funds are often referred to as “rainy-day funds”, pools of cash that their government owners can draw upon in times of economic need. It is hard to imagine a rainier day or a greater …
Capital Market Line Quarterly Five-Year Forecast of Relative Risk and Return Across Asset Classes While the spiking number of Covid-19 cases in the US West and South are cause for concern, built-up consumer demand and nascent recoveries in autos, housing
The sharp market fall and speedy recovery during the eventful first half of 2020 has kept tail risk hedging topical: investors have both fresh memories of a painful loss and renewed fears of a repeat. In this paper we summarize
We believe there is a striking disconnect between market pricing and the real economy, especially with regard to expected company earnings. In the past three months, risk assets have pulled back from the brink of collapse, as policy makers hosed
Qontigo Applied Research Q2 2020 Insight Report In times of crisis, the focus is always on the future— hence our title for this quarter’s Insight Report. As researchers, we analyze the past in search of insights to guide us forward.
Carmignac's Note Investors are used to dealing with uncertainty – the very essence of financial markets – as they seek to anticipate what is necessarily an elusive future. However, these past six months have driven uncertainty into entirely uncharted territory,
#28 A variety of webinars were hosted this past week and next week a few interesting are coming up. Therefore, before we tell you the best read research of week 28, we will highlight two webinars. Last Thursday, Eurizon AM
Foreword We are pleased to present the results of the 2020 European Risk Manager Survey. The survey has taken place every other year since 2002 and represents the widest available picture of views of professional risk managers across Europe. The
Where are the opportunities in Asset Backed Securities? …that can meet ESG risk and positive impact objectives July 2020 – Alternative Fixed Income and R.I. series – Webinar 1 The drawdown in the markets provoked by Covid-19 reached its lowest
Risk Insights Series We are in a new era of extreme volatility that is leaving investors searching for new ways to achieve the same portfolio objectives. In an environment marked by …
Webinar – Green Bonds: What happens to green when markets turn mean? The recent bond market sell-off caused by the Covid19 pandemic revealed that Green Bonds held up remarkably well with just half of the losses versus the broader corporate
#23 Asset Allocation might be the most used tag on OpinioPro and this past week is no different. Furthermore, of course the calendar is a well used page as well. Don’t forget to take a look and spot an interesting
Webinar – Climate Change Investing in 2020 Divesting, Decarbonizing, De-risking, and Aligning with 1.5C A complimentary webinar for investment professionals Investors recognize that climate change is one of the most pressing threats to society, and that alignment offers potential opportunities
Webinar – Resiliency & Risks for Global Financial Systems COVID-recession consequences, fiscal and monetary responses, and implications for the US economy and capital markets will be discussed by Peter Fisher, Clinical Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Peter formerly
Webinar – Quarterly Multi-Asset Risk Review Differing views on the effectiveness of the fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 crisis have led to an ongoing uncoupling of stock and government-bond returns. While share prices started to recover in anticipation
Webinar – ESG & Credit: How to Mitigate Both Financial And Climate Risks Institutional investors are increasingly looking at making their significant fixed income allocations part of their sustainable investing strategy. But whilst the recent market turmoil highlights the need
Investment Perspective Risk assets have rallied strongly over the last seven weeks as policy actions have been forceful, COVID-19 cases have peaked in important areas and investors have been willing to look past the short-term economic …
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"While #active management has always played an important role in retirement plans, the COVID19 crisis has added new layers of complexity to the active versus #passive debate. We observe a number of trends ..." -> https://www.opiniopro.com/2020/09/mfs/back-to-reality/
