The tiger that lost its roar: the mystery of South Korea’s underperforming equities

Chartology

High-wire act: Is it possible to quell inflation and to avoid a recession?

US dollar capital markets

market snapshot

The recession party: should you stay or should you go?

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Fiorino

Has the ESG bubble burst?

Fast reading: The Global Equity team have been researching ESG since 2007, just a few years after the United Nations Global Compact first popularised the term, and integrating ESG into their investments for over a decade. Over the past 15 years, the team has both observed and demonstrated the added value that ESG can offer. […]

Tech stocks take a tumble

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market snapshot

360°, Q4 2023:

Debt, deficit, dispelling doubts

Doing good and doing well: Our approach to sustainable fixed income

How do you differentiate sustainable investing from ESG integration? In talking about the differences between ESG integration and sustainable investing, there’s clearly an overlap when we talk about environmental and social factors. But with ESG integration, what we look at is how these non-fundamental factors affect a company’s cash flows for enterprise value and credit […]

The Responsibility Office: Supporting sustainable wealth creation

At  Federated Hermes Limited, we believe the purpose of investment is to create wealth sustainably for investors over the long term. Sustainable wealth creation should provide investors with income to spend as they get older, an ability to buy goods and services, and help to build a world in which investors are happy to live. […]

Sustainable Global Equity, Annual Report 2022-23

Rough waves

Highlights include: Thematic focus #1: How can AI help address the UN SDGs? Thematic focus #2: Circular economy and waste management Market and performance review: One of the defining characteristics of the first half of 2023 was ‘narrowness’ of returns, with the majority of performance being driven by a small number of tech-focused mega cap […]

A sea change for global shipping

Scandlines electric ferry

Infrastructure case study