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. […]
360°, Q4 2023:
Debt, deficit, dispelling doubts
In search of silver linings
Market snapshot
Beijing faces limited options to tackle economic woes
A fixed income perspective
Investors must learn to navigate a less predictable world
There was a time when investors understood that geopolitics and, particularly, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West, had a real impact on financial volatility and economies as it played out in a mixture of proxy wars and unusual diplomacy. As a young boy in East Jerusalem in the late sixties, I […]
Spectrum Q3 2023: No robots were harmed in the making of this report
In a 1962 collection of short stories, sci-fi sage Arthur C Clarke postulated his third law, that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Now, as we push through the second decade of the 21st century and into a future seemingly set up for AI, Clarke’s law appears more apt than ever. Through the […]
Fear and loathing in China?
A realistic risk assessment
Navigating China’s economic turbulence
Global Emerging Markets Equity
Sustainable fixed income: Five questions answered
Question one: How does engagement in fixed income work in practice? It’s a myth that engagement in the realm of fixed income is less effective than for equities. Our multi-decade experience of deep engagement with companies issuing debt illustrates this – and we have a solid track record that underlines how effective engagement can be […]
Will the US equities rally continue?
market snapshot
