All Features articles – Page 7

  • Joseph Mariathasan
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    Tackling the sustainability conundrum

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    With climate change and the loss of biodiversity seen as potential existential risks for humanity, it has become imperative to create and implement a sustainable form of capitalism

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    Fixed income, rates & currency: Chill winds prompt caution

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    Although 2022 was a remarkably bad year for bonds and equities, any hopes that 2023 might illuminate a brighter path have already been dispelled as rapidly changing narratives – from recession to boom to fears of a banking crisis – all tossed and turned stock and rates markets. The result was a remarkably turbulent first quarter. 

  • Emmanuel Faber and Andreas Barckow
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    Accounting: Connectivity between ISSB and IASB on accounting standards

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    If you think we all agreed on what connectivity is, you are probably wrong. At least that is what the International Accounting Standards Board’s vice-chair Linda Mezon-Hutter seemed to imply at a recent meeting of the IFRS Foundation’s Accounting Standards Advisory Forum (ASAF).

  • What minimum requirements should a green bond meet?
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    Greenwashing: Teasing out the intentional from the accidental

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    Greenwashing is increasingly under the spotlight as investors and rulemakers try to figure out whether the chief concern is untruthfulness or the unintentional misleading of clients with environmental claims

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    Qontigo Riskwatch – May 2023

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    *Data as of 31 March 2023. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants

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    Virtu Global Tradewatch – May 2023

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    March 2023 data through to 13 April 2023

  • IPE Quest Expectations Indicator May 2023
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    IPE Quest Expectations Indicator May 2023

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    Russian air superiority over Ukraine is coming to an end due to lack of equipment. Destroying civilian targets is counterproductive and consumes ammunition. Bakhmut is eating into Russian resources, while Ukraine is being re-armed. History teaches that better technology, rather than numerical superiority, wins wars. But even a lopsided Ukrainian win would not automatically mean peace. 

  • Tom Leake
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    Ahead of the curve: What happened to equity volatility in 2022 and what next?

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    Something strange happened last year. Expectations about the future level of volatility in US equities – implied volatility – behaved in a very unusual way. In a falling market, the price of implied volatility normally rises because equity falls are associated with a worsening macroeconomic outlook, implying more market risk. Expectations of future volatility therefore increase. 

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    Emerging markets decarbonisation

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    The International Energy Agency estimates that developing economies and emerging markets are responsible for more than two-thirds of global carbon emissions.

  • Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
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    Fixed income, rates & currency: Optimism fades on mixed data

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    January’s market optimism has been subsiding, as forecasts for inflation and US Federal Reserve policy shift the outlook further to the hawkish side. However, the macro picture is not clear. Markets hang on to every new piece of data to clarify the outlook, be it non-farm payrolls, the consumer price index (CPI) or the US Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). 

  • Joseph Mariathasan
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    The West should understand the strengths and limitations of Enterprise China

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    China is fast becoming the West’s bogeyman. Yet a hard decoupling of the two would be a lose-lose situation for both. Despite the tensions, private companies face the challenge of creating viable strategies for interactions with China that could make the difference between success and bankruptcy.

  • Russian attack on local market in Shevchenkove village in Kharkiv region
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    Ukraine: The mother of all impact investments

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    Institutional investors can play a crucial role in rebuilding Ukraine in a post-war future 

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    Ahead of the curve: Introducing the concept of a carbon risk-free curve

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    As global investors and companies progress towards their net-zero emissions targets, the concept of a carbon risk-free curve becomes increasingly relevant within the fixed-income market. In our view, this curve should provide a reference for evaluating the risk levels of bonds in relation to their issuers’ CO₂-equivalent (CO₂e) emissions and can therefore help investors to assess the impact of changes in CO₂e emissions on the yield spread of fixed-income bonds. 

  • Masamichi Kono IFRS_OECD
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    Accounting: IFRS’s Kono says no

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    On the face of it, the staff at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) have done a good job so far.

  • Qontigo riskwatch
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    Qontigo Riskwatch – April 2023

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    *Data as of 28 February 2023. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants

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    Virtu Global Tradewatch – April 2023

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    February 2023 data through to 13 March 2023

  • Expectations Indicator graphs Apr23
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    IPE Quest Expectations Indicator April 2023

    April 2023 (Magazine)

    With new, superior equipment, the Ukrainian military is set to start an offensive soon. Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, is jockeying to become Russia’s next kleptocrat on the back of the Russian army. Donald Trump’s candidacy is increasingly beleaguered by defeats in court. The trade agreement on Northern Ireland between the EU and the UK is a significant boon for both as well as for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, not because the trade flows are so important but because the issue blocked co-operation in many other fields. While the winter has been mild and beneficial, there are early signs of a dry spring, quite possible in view of climate change setting in. If that materialises, harvests, therefore food prices, will be affected in autumn.  

  • WTI crude oil prices (NYMEX), Feb 2003–Feb 2023
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    From soft landing to no landing

    March 2023 (Magazine)

    Once again, the US jobs market has shown its capacity to surprise forecasters, if not astonish them. January’s non-farm payroll numbers came in way above consensus forecasts, swiftly reversing markets’ dovish take on that week’s central bank actions, with bond markets handing back much of their earlier gains.  

  • Karen Shackleton
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    TCFD reporting for pension funds in the UK: a progress report

    March 2023 (Magazine)

    Some 18 months from the introduction of mandatory reporting of climate data by large UK pension funds, evidence shows that the policy has not brought about greater orientation towards green investments

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    Private equity fundamentals resilient in headwinds

    March 2023 (Magazine)

    The economy and markets are beset with headwinds, and private equity assets are unlikely to be impervious. The concerns with the asset class are wide-ranging, from difficult financing conditions to rising interest rates, squeezed corporate margins and closed exit routes.