SDG Engagement Equity, H1 2024 report
Enabling and empowering real change
Not all strategies look like ours: Sustainable Global Equity
Video transcript Has the strategy achieved what you set out to achieve in 2021? We set out to deliver through-cycle returns for our investors, and we recognised at the outset that we had come through a decade plus of zero interest rates and easy money, and that narrowly defined investment approaches may not work in […]
Global Equity ESG, H1 2024 Report
Fast reading Recent pushback against ESG integration is nothing new; meanwhile, progress on an ever more structured, rigorous approach to sustainable investing continues apace. Principal adverse indicators (PAIs) are useful metrics to demonstrate how investments can negatively affect factors relating to sustainability, from carbon emissions to human rights. We use PAIs to help us measure […]
ChatGPT: Jüngste Errungenschaft bahnbrechender KI
Der bahnbrechende britische Mathematiker und Informatiker Alan Turing prophezeite 1950, dass sich bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts der Wortgebrauch und die allgemeine gebildete Meinung so sehr verändert haben würden, dass wir alle „von denkenden Maschinen sprechen könnten, ohne zu erwarten, dass man uns widerspricht“. Er war ein wenig optimistisch mit seiner Zeitangabe, aber wenn […]
Will new reforms tackle the ‘Korea discount’?
Fast reading The dominance of ‘chaebols’ – large, family-owned business conglomerates – has contributed to limited protection for minority shareholders in South Korea and, as a result, lower equity valuations. In addition to complex shareholding and ownership structures, other concerns include: sizeable balances of shares sometimes held in treasury; directors having no legal fiduciary duty […]
School’s in session
With colleges and schools resuming, September always feels like a fresh start. The markets are studying economic data and Federal Reserve communication anew to determine when it will finally ease. In Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell all but promised he would announce the first cut at the upcoming policy-setting meeting on 18 September. […]
Sustainable Global Equity, Annual Report, 2023-24
Fast reading Investment review, June-to-June Engagement overview Anniversary Q&A: Celebrating three years of the Sustainable Global Equity Strategy ‘Leader’ case study: Nvidia ‘Improver’ case study: LKQ ‘Impact’ case study: Novo Nordisk A high conviction, fundamental strategy targeting sustainable companies: profitable businesses whose products, operations and activities help create a more sustainable future. Sustainable Global Equity, […]
Biowissenschaften: Ein unzurecht verkannter Sektor?
Die Biowissenschaften umfassen alle wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mit lebenden Organismen befassen, einschließlich Biologie, Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie. Sie werden häufig mit der Biotechnologie bzw. Biotech verwechselt, die in der Investmentwelt den Ruf hat, volatil zu sein. Wir bei Federated Hermes blicken über kurzfristige Marktbewegungen hinaus und sehen bei den Unternehmen, die an der Herstellung […]
Here we go again
It should be no surprise when the financial markets get ahead of themselves. And we don’t need to be an expert at behavioural economics to know rational investors don’t exist. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating when traders get over their skis, adding volatility and detracting from liquidity in the market. Just as […]
The Power of Diversification
Portfolio composition in Real Estate and Private Debt
