The advantages and challenges of ESG in fixed income

Click “Full video” below to watch the whole video. Full videoShort videos Unlike equity – where investors have access to one security – credit investors have the ability to align their perception of risk about a particular company with an exact volatility contribution that they want because credit allows for a variety of ways to […]

Making the case for structured credit

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Fearful markets brace for further hikes

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Fast reading: Turbulence in commercial real estate (CRE) has increased this year amid concerns about the impact of soaring interest rates on the sector. As real estate market ‘corrections’ are a regular feature of the property market, institutional investors may try to seek out cycle-agnostic investment strategies. Equites headed downward this week as investors braced […]

SDG Engagement Equity Q2 2023 case study

Flow pipes and valves

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Navigating rising distress levels in leveraged loans

Chartology

360°, Q2 2023

Blue water of the ocean

Divergence, duration, dislocation

ESG Materiality, H1 2023

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Spotlight on India

Overlooked and underappreciated: The case for Korea

 At the end of May 2023, the Federated Hermes Asia ex-Japan Strategy’s key country active overweight remains Korea, at +13.96% relative to benchmark, whereas the strategy’s main underweight is India, sitting at 16.83% below the benchmark, as shown by Figure 1 below.1 We prefer Korean stocks because they currently present very cheap valuations amid improving […]

A forced hand

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Beyond re-opening: the long-term trends to watch in China

Optimism that China’s scrapping of its strict zero-Covid controls would boost the global economy has been tempered by weaker-than-expected data in May on retail sales, industrial output, and investments. But this short-term blip needs to be viewed in the context of the vast technological and demographic shifts underway in the world’s second largest economy that […]