Balancing the carbon equation
How we are investing for a better climate
Pricing ESG risk in sovereign credit
An emerging divergence
A pioneer of responsible investing
Since our first CEO openly challenged a major UK company to improve its governance, to our current leader Saker Nusseibeh being awarded a CBE for services to responsible business, the international business of Federated Hermes has been at the forefront of responsible investing. By catalysing corporate governance reform since our 1983 inception and engaging internationally […]
A meeting of minds
Fusing fundamental and systematic analyses
Stewardship
The 2020 vision
ABS analysis
Through the ESG lens
Pricing ESG risk in sovereign credit
We believe the findings of this paper will give investors a better understanding of the full range of risks that sovereign bonds involve. It has three main objectives: To establish whether there is a relationship between ESG factors and sovereign CDS spreads; If so, to determine which of the three ESG factors have the strongest […]
We can all get along
(part II)
Pricing ESG risk in credit markets
Reinforcing our conviction
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 […]
