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ESG integration in SMID equities
Your Questions Answered by Hermes Direct Lending

What is direct lending? How did you position your strategy? These are just a couple of the most commonly-asked questions about direct lending by our clients and prospective clients. Earlier this month, we sat down with the Hermes Direct Lending team as they tackled the most pressing questions about the asset class. 1. What […]
Cov-lite loans

The new normal, but at what cost?
Pricing ESG risk in credit markets

Reinforcing our conviction
We can all get along

In this two-part paper, we assert that the shared interests of bond and shareholders in companies provide incentives to jointly engage companies – and generate positive outcomes by doing so. In this first instalment, we dispel the fallacy that the imperatives of bond and shareholders typically diverge, and argue that their common standing as financial […]
The Why Question

We also recognise that the decisions financial practitioners make on how to invest beneficiaries’ money entrusted to them shapes the society they will live in. Further, we argue that the differentiation between ‘shareholders’ and ‘stakeholders’ which is often produced to justify the status quo is inherently false. Today, the majority of shares are owned (through […]