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Braving the unknown: high yield debt
Option-adjusted spreads for US high yield are above 700 basis points, a stress event threshold only breached four other times in the last two decades. Mercer’s Nathan Struemph examines the considerations for investors looking at these investments including the range of return outcomes in prior stress events, the path investors had to experience in reaching those outcomes, and the impact of implementation timeliness on returns.
Towards a long-term net zero climate investment strategy
Over recent years both Phoenix and ASI have worked together extensively on developing a roadmap to integrate ESG principles into the investment management strategies which underpin the management of their assets.
Building better retirement systems
The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for better risk management tools to handle longevity and ageing. This paper by Wharton’s Olivia Mitchell, offers an assessment of the status quo prior the coronavirus; evaluates how retirement systems are faring in the wake of the shock; examines insurance and financial market products that may render retirement systems more resilient for the world’s ageing population; and looks at the potential role for policymakers.
How RI should be responding to COVID-19
The PRI is working with signatories to further develop thinking on what the COVID-19 crisis means for investors. It is establishing two signatory participation groups to coordinate and develop investor responses, focusing on short term responses, and a future economic recovery phase.
How RI should be responding to COVID-19
The PRI is working with signatories to further develop thinking on what the COVID-19 crisis means for investors. It is establishing two signatory participation groups to coordinate and develop investor responses, focusing on short term responses, and a future economic recovery phase.
The Road to Net Zero
How the pandemic has sharpened the focus of energy companies on the low-carbon energy transition.
Seizing Late-cycle Opportunities
Key Takeaways Investors are contending with a lingering late-cycle macro backdrop with latent recession risks for the US economy and most developed markets. Rather than wait for the cycle to turn, the journey toward the destination of eventual growth or recessionary outcomes merits its own consideration. We believe that staying invested, keeping active and diversifying
Pandemic, recession, economic crisis
COVID-19 has delivered an enormous global shock, leading to steep recessions in many countries. The baseline forecast by the World Bank envisions a 5.2 per cent contraction in global GDP in 2020—the deepest global recession in decades.
No luxury to pick and choose SDGs
There is moment driven by the COVID-19 crisis to invest in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, according to chief executive of Robeco, Gilbert van Hassel. But investing in companies of the future, and avoiding risks of the past, requires real expertise and changing mindsets about investment poses one of the biggest challenge for investors.



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