Obesity drugs: a lifeline for global healthcare systems

Scroll to interact with the digital experience. Not all themes are worth following… Life sciences is one of Sustainable Global Equity’s key investment themes. Read about our other investment themes and how our investment process is designed to capture the best opportunities across global equity markets. Read more Share: 1 https://www.hermes-investment.com/uploads/2024/04/9d035d814164c6c6874974b1eb1a758a/fhl-sustainable-global-equities-2023-march-2024.pdf 2 https://www.hermes-investment.com/uploads/2024/04/9d035d814164c6c6874974b1eb1a758a/fhl-sustainable-global-equities-2023-march-2024.pdf 3 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/6cc2aacc-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/6cc2aacc-en 4 https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2012114 5 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/6cc2aacc-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/6cc2aacc-en […]

Deep dive: Plastics and their impact on oceans

Plastic is a synthetic polymer (a group of linked molecules) that has a linear structure and may include additives for specific characteristics. The raw materials that are used to produce plastics can be either fossil fuel (such as gas or crude oil) or bio based (such as cellulose)1. Fossil fuels account for over 99% of […]

The China catalyst

Market snapshot

A falling rate environment

Video transcript In a falling rate interest environment, it’s actually on a flow basis, from an assets under management standpoint, a positive situation in the marketplace for money market funds. Despite what has been thought of from a media perspective as being a wall of cash that will start to exit money market funds in […]

Spectrum Q3 2024: Marvellous medicine

Fast reading While treatments for obesity have dominated the healthcare investment narrative over the past 18 months, they are by no means the only secular growth story. The life sciences industry may be equally well positioned to benefit from longer term structural trends. Biotech companies are innovating at breakneck speed, creating products and processes that […]

Next-generation private equity: The art of partnership

Private Markets Insight

Locating the sweet spot in direct lending

Private Markets Insight

The Fed fires the starting gun

scissors on top of a $100 bill

market snapshot

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 […]