When looking for equity investments, how do changes in a company’s environmental, social and governance profile impact its stock price? This month, MSCI released a report called How Markets Price ESG, which found that changes in a companies’ ESG profile have been predictive of changes in stock prices. The study also found that equity markets […]
Will the environment of rising rates continue? And if so, over what period? And where can long-term investors find opportunities? Canadian Investment Review asked Robert Spector, fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management for his views. Spector says he thinks there will be further monetary tightening, which will have implications for short-term interest rates, […]
Seventy per cent of all private credit committed capital comes from institutional investors, says a recent report, Financing the Economy 2018, released by the Alternative Credit Council and Dechert LLP. The report looked specifically at capital committed by investors to private credit managers. Janet Rabovsky, partner at Ellement Consulting Group, says that many pension funds […]
On Thursday November 8, the European Commission published its 2018 Autumn Economic forecast, predicting that in 2019 Italy’s deficit will increase to 2.9 per cent of GDP and in 2020 it is projected to reach 3.1 per cent of GDP. This would put Italy offside with EU Stability and Growth Pact’s deficit limit of three […]
With the Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, Angus Sippe, portfolio manager at Schroders shares his views on what the election outcomes may mean for investors. “I think that the split congress that was the result has been historically very positive for markets because of the effectively benign outcome on […]
In 2018, there have been over 250,000 unique English articles focused on ESG issues across 8,000 companies according to data from TruValue Labs. But how does public sentiment influence the market pricing of firms’ sustainability activities? Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim explores the relationship between public sentiment and how markets value corporate sustainability activities […]
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