Recent spikes in volatility have focused investors' minds on mitigating the risk of an equity market correction - and for good reason. The economic cycle in developed economies is approaching its nine-year mark, equity valuations appear high and ... Read more

Investors often discount the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis in emerging market debt (EMD) investing, based on perceptions that emerging market governance is inherently weak or that data is lacking. In our view, these ... Read more

Part one of this paper, published last week, looked at the risk indicators developed by Four Twenty Seven and used in their modelling to obtain physical climate risk score, which is applied below to the Far East Asian region. Read more

This white paper provides some of the tools that investors need to more accurately monitor and address the physical effects of climate change on investment portfolios. The objective is to satisfy institutional investors' growing desire for more ... Read more

In distressed credit investing, careful legal and capital structure analysis must go hand in hand with fundamental corporate analysis. Read more

Inflation looks to be very slowly emerging from a long slumber and interest rates are heading north. This has significant implications for the world's economy and global equity markets. Read more

As infrastructure investors begin to cast their nets wider in the search for high-yielding and diversifying assets, marine infrastructure is one area which offers many characteristics that will appeal to institutional investors. Inter alia it Read more

Years from now, when historians look at the "big ease" after the "great recession" of 2008, we suspect the reviews of some central bankers of the recent era will not be favourable. Read more

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It is common wisdom in the industry that not all alpha factors make good risk factors. There is, however, plenty of evidence in the literature that some of the style risk factors commonly found in fundamental multi-factor models accurately capture factor ... Read more