360°, Q2 2024:
Can strong technicals lead to stronger fundamentals?
FHL Stewardship Report 2023
Fast reading Monitoring engagement outcomes is crucial in ensuring our approach is effective and achieves the desired results. As such, this report contains new and updated examples, case studies and metrics throughout to demonstrate how our approach works in practice. This year’s report features information on our first deforestation risk assessment and mitigation activities across […]
Extra innings
Tipping point: UK Nature Strategy
UK companies and consumers have reached a tipping point when it comes to understanding the need to protect and enhance nature. The UK Nature team’s strategy provides exposure to projects and businesses that support natural capital and biodiversity in the UK. In doing so, the strategy aims to deliver high-integrity nature, climate and social impacts […]
Emerging market debt: the strong recovery continues
EMD report Q1 2024
Your Questions Answered: Global Emerging Markets
What does ‘quality’ mean in your approach to EM equities? I think it’s important, because ‘quality’ is a word that gets bandied around a lot, to define the terms that we use when we talk about quality companies. Quality for us means a number of things in the context of investing. Does the company have […]
Paradigm shift
market snapshot
Korea discount: a dream deferred?
Fast reading In our opinion, the ‘Korea discount’ has deprived investors of returns, in many cases leaving them impoverished relative to the growing value of the very companies into which they have invested. We believe it has also raised the cost of capital for South Korean enterprise, reduced risk-taking and economic activity, while undermining innovation. […]
US Small- und Mid-Cap-Strategie: Eine Retrospektive
Wann sind Sie zu Federated Hermes gekommen und was haben Sie vorher gemacht? Ursprünglich war ich als Buchhalter bei PwC tätig. 2005 kam ich dann zu Hermes (vom Altersvorsorgesystem bei Rio Tinto), wo ich mich auf kleine und mittelgroße europäische Unternehmen konzentrierte. 2009 wechselte ich in das US-Team für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen und übernahm […]
Opportunities at the longer end of the commercial paper curve?
Short Term Investments Committee
