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Climate Transition and Bonds: Risk or Opportunity?The transition to a low-carbon economy could significantly redirect the flow of investments toward greener companies and technologies that limit carbon emissions. We consider the potential risk — and opportunity — for bond investors.
ESG Climate VaR ESG Climate Solutions
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Currency-Risk Hedging in Real Estate BenchmarksGlobal real estate investors can expose themselves to currency risk. Using a hedged index, they may better align their benchmark and investment approach and ensure currency risk is accurately treated in allocation modeling and performance attribution.
Hedging & Currency Indexes ESG Climate VaR Global Intel IRIS
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Cross-Currency Credit Spreads: Mind the GapAn issuer’s credit spread should be consistent when measured in the USD- or EUR-denominated markets, because both are measuring the same credit risk. Yet divergence can occur as a result of liquidity or supply-demand imbalances, such as those in the COVID crisis.
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How Are High-ESG-Rated Bond Portfolios Distinct?ESG investing makes up an increasingly large footprint in equity portfolios, but ESG integration in bond portfolios is still in its early days. We examine the characteristics that make high-ESG-rated corporate-bond portfolios distinct.
ESG Products & Services ESG Ratings MSCI ESG Indexes
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COVID Stimulus Helped Resilience of US ABSIssuance of U.S. asset-backed securities fell by a quarter in 2020 from the previous year, as credit tightened during the COVID-19 crisis. The performance of loans underpinning ABS proved resilient, however, as economic relief helped support consumers.
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Carrying on Through a Crisis, with FactorsFactors have long had a place in constructing equity portfolios, but investors increasingly use factors in sovereign and corporate bonds, commodities and currencies. Which non-equity factors have been the best performers coming out of recent crises, and why?
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Private-Infrastructure Risk: Tilting at WindmillsPrivate-infrastructure investments are often treated as comparable to relatively safe long-duration bonds with attractive yields, but this approach can mislead investors as they evaluate risk, yield and portfolio hedges.
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The CDS Market Stayed Healthy amid COVIDSince the global financial crisis, many have expressed concern about the health and future of credit-default swaps. Could institutional investors find the liquidity they need to hedge credit risk in subsequent periods? We examine CDS liquidity during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Stress Testing Multiperiod Inflation ScenariosWill inflation rear its ugly head in the U.S.? Although the outcome of the U.S. elections might have lowered inflation expectations, investors can prepare for scenarios where inflation goes up. In this stress test, we examine three scenarios for inflation over varying time horizons.
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Investor Reaction to US Elections and COVID-Vaccine ProgressTo gauge investor expectations after Joe Biden was declared winner of the U.S. election and good news broke about COVID vaccines, we surveyed 151 U.S.-based financial advisers. We examine the advisers’ views on the next 12 months and markets’ reaction since Election Day.
ESG Climate Solutions Equity Risk Models All Country Indexes