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Aviva Investors: We need to talk about waste
Renewable energy has a vital role to play if the world is to combat climate change. But its widespread adoption comes with a price. As older installations come to the end of their useful life, countries urgently need to work out what to do with the waste.
Aviva Investors: Cleaning Up
To align with net-zero emissions targets, the financial system needs a radical transformation. Can it get there and, if it does, what should it look like in 2050?
Aviva Investors: Counting emissions and accounting omissions
Internalise the climate externality. That is the major task facing policymakers and corporate executives. However, this requires accurate measurement and incorporation into financial accounts and neither are straightforward.
Aviva Investors: Law and climate
Energy majors, cement producers, utilities and financial services providers are among the latest targets of legal action designed to make them move faster towards a lower carbon world. Could this be an inflection point, as the conversation turns to specific responsibilities rather than vague commitments to change?
Aviva Investors: The long decline
Trend rates of economic growth, which have been on the decline for decades in the worlds leading economies, look set to fall further. That will have big implications for governments, companies, households and investors, argues Stewart Robertson.
Aviva Investors: Multi-asset allocation views: Emerging themes for portfolio diversification
Diversification is a core tenet of multi-asset investing. Sunil Krishnan explores thematic ideas that may help diversify portfolios in the current market environment.
Aviva Investors: Multi-asset allocation views: Emerging themes for portfolio diversification
Diversification is a core tenet of multi-asset investing. Sunil Krishnan explores thematic ideas that may help diversify portfolios in the current market environment.
Aviva Investors: The going gets tough
Heavy industry and heavy transport are hard to decarbonise, but this must be done to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Can companies, policymakers and investors join forces to make it happen? The race is on
Aviva Investors: Pricing Carbon
Nearly three decades after it first agreed to tackle climate change, the world has failed miserably to curb the growth in CO2 emissions. To succeed, it urgently needs to establish an effective price for carbon.
Aviva Investors: What are CryptoPunk NFTs?
These pixilated digital images used to be given away by their creators, but now they sell for millions of dollars. The one above sold at auction for $11.75m! They are a part of the NFT "non-fungible token" craze. But what are NFTs and should we be sceptical?
Rathbones: Funds in focus
Join Rathbones for their latest fund manager event, hosted online on 25th November at 1030. Featuring insightful fund updates covering: "Green is good, but it's not a free lunch, "Bonds, bonds, bonds; how to allocate in a rising rate environment and "Finding growth in the UK, the Rathbones way. This will be followed by an opportunity to put your questions forward to the managers. Not to be missed!
Baillie Gifford: Smarter insurance for a less risky future
The insurance industry is being transformed by technological change from drones to driverless cars. Baillie Giffords Duncan Sutherland considers how this will shape the future. Capital at risk and income not guaranteed.
Jupiter: COP26: Down, Not Out
Did COP26 go far enough? No. Did it make progress? Unequivocally, yes, say Abbie Llewellyn-Waters and Rhys Petheram. The hope of 1.5C is still alive just.
Jupiter: Resilience first in the post-Covid world
Nick Payne discusses how emerging markets companies are actively addressing supply chain fragility in the wake of the pandemic.
Jupiter: Could inflation finally reach Japan?
Restaurant prices are rising, but is this an isolated effect or the beginning of a genuine inflationary period for Japan? Dan Carter and Mitesh Patel give their view.
Jupiter Merlin Weekly: Divisions between the White House and Fed
The Jupiter Merlin team discuss the policy landscape in the US, where the White House and the Federal Reserve seem at odds over how to deal with rising inflation.
Jupiter: Technology enablers picks and shovels in the tech gold rush
Ross Teverson, Colin Croft, and Matthew Pigott explain why they favour companies enabling technological change over some of the more obvious names.
Aviva Investors: Ask the Fund Manager, Guillaume Paillat Ep 77. Its Elons world, were just tweeting in it
Elon Musk shared a poll asking if he should sell 10% of his stock (roughly 2% of Tesla), join Guillaume and Jaya as they explore why and whats happened since then.
Orbis: Inflation: The bottom-up case for caution
If headlines are to be believed, people are gravely concerned that inflation will rise. If market prices are to be believed, people are quietly convinced that inflation will fall. To us, markets seem a bit too relaxed about the risk of higher or more persistent inflation.
Jupiter: Webcast - Taking Stock of UK Small Caps
Dan Nickols, Co-Head of Strategy, UK Small & Mid Cap, provides a Q3 recap as well as an outlook for investing in smaller company equities and the UK market. Dan touches on market valuations, inflation and supply disruptions, growth and value oscillations and portfolio changes and performance in the UK Smaller Companies Fund that he manages. The call is hosted by Jupiters David Harris.
Jupiter: Macro Monitor: The Feds dilemma
Jupiters Fixed Income Alternatives team discuss the potent mixture of low growth and high inflation, which continues to animate global bond markets.
Jupiter: Notes from the Investment Floor: Chinas long march to net zero
Salman Siddiqui discusses Chinas move toward carbon neutrality and the investment opportunities it provides.
FundsNetwork: Will ESG be the new normal after COP26?
Paul Richards, Head of Fidelity FundsNetwork Distribution, brought two industry leading experts in investment together ahead of the COP26. They explored the likely impact the conference would have on the investment industry and what advisers need to do next.
Aviva Investors: No more command and control
Asset managers need to dismantle hierarchies and promote diversity of thought if they are to future-proof their businesses. They can learn valuable lessons from tech companies, military leaders and even ancient philosophers, writes Apiramy Jeyarajah.
Schroders: Q&A: where are the risks in credit?
What is your assessment of the macro economic backdrop?
Columbia Threadneedle: Green hydrogen is finally showing its true colours
There continues to be a remarkable focus on green hydrogen as a clean alternative to traditional fossil fuels, with the past year further accelerating its potential widespread adoption. So, what is driving all this hype, is hydrogen the sustainability disruptor, and why has there been such remarkable recent progress?
Aviva Investors: Ask the Fund Manager, Sunil Krishnan Ep 76. COP26: the moment of truth for tackling climate change?
COP26, the UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow, is in full swing. But what are the climate action plans being discussed and will governments really make the changes needed to avoid a climate disaster? Also, who will be picking up the $4tn tab?
M&G: Inflation what to make of the current dynamics
The recent bout of volatility has affected both equities and fixed income markets. In this article, we would like to explain our views on the current interest rate regime and our assessment of the inflation scenario.
Sanlam: We've reached the peak of the business cycle, is it downhill from here?
Weve reached the end of what has been an incredibly quick business cycle. Are there only negative surprises to come?
A more digital future for advice firms and NS&I
Over the past decade NS&I has been working to bring their services into the 21st century.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: Will it be a good COP?
The eyes of the world are watching the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. As the parties begin their deliberations this week in Glasgow, Matt Crossman concludes this two-part series by laying out what needs to happen.
M&G: Countdown to COP26
Ahead of COP26, we asked four of our sustainability and impact investing experts Ben Constable-Maxwell, Rachel Roddy, Randeep Somel and John William Olsen to discuss the upcoming climate change summit. Join us to watch our Countdown to COP26 investment insights video discussing key industry themes.
Ask the Fund Manager, Peter Fitzgerald - Ep 75. Tesla hits $1 trillion valuation.
Tesla hits $1 trillion market value and is now worth around 7x more than Volkswagen. Thomas Stokes and Peter Fitzgerald take a look under the bonnet to see what's been driving this astronomical valuation.
Royal London: Maximise your protection conversations with tenants and letting agents
Through working together, we want to make sure more tenants are told about their protection options during the lettings process.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: Will the boosters last?
Pumped up on monetary and fiscal boosters, global equity valuations soared over the summer. In this latest blog chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth ponders whether investor sentiment has lost some of its natural immunity to setbacks.
M&G: Stuck in transit
Growing fears of more persistent inflation led to correlated declines in both equity and fixed income markets in September. Whats driving the inflationary pressures and what can we expect as we head into year end? Investment Specialist, Kirsty Clark reviews recent market performance and the current economic backdrop.
M&G: Stuck in transitInflation what to make of the current dynamics
The recent bout of volatility has affected both equities and fixed income markets. In this article, we would like to explain our views on the current interest rate regime and our assessment of the inflation scenario.
M&G: Building a better world
Listed infrastructure is a sector enjoying considerable interest within investment circles at present. IFA Magazines Sue Whitbread talked to Alex Araujo, fund manager of the M&G Global Listed Infrastructure strategy about the themes which are underpinning it and why he believes that ESG principles and processes are inextricably linked to future success
Aviva Investors: Dogecoin, Nike D2C and the North American heatwave
In this months instalment of What does the data say?, we look at the incredible rise of Dogecoin, Nikes direct-to-consumer strategy and the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
Aviva Investors: Will accountants save the world?
A shake-up in company reports and accounts to consider companies environmental impact could radically alter the way they are assessed, argues the influential political economist and accountant.