Our materiality assessment indicates that simplifying the current CSRD reporting framework to as few as 300 to 500 data points may improve usability and interoperability, while still maintaining most investor-critical disclosures.
Recent trends in the buyout exit market show that assets are being sold at lower median-valuation multiples, despite stronger margin growth and reduced leverage. Hidden pressure points lurk. Limited partners may wish to look beyond net asset values.
From car factories to aluminum smelters to textiles, the purported goal of the Trump administration is to 'reshore' American manufacturing. It’s a goal, in part, supported by his predecessor, Joe Biden, who enacted the CHIPS act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to America. So, let's say manufacturing does come back and companies expand their current factories to meet demand. What climate-driven risks—water shortages, extreme heat, or flooding—will these sites face, and where will those hazards hit hardest? We’ll explore the answers on this episode of Sustainability Now!
The U.S. equity market’s struggles in early Q2 2025, combined with renewed opportunities for investing in non-U.S. equity markets, may encourage asset allocators to lessen the focus on home bias and reassess broader geographic exposures.
Certain economic and factor exposures were helpful performance stabilizers for Chinese equities during early April’s tariff turbulence. Chinese state ownership and limited dependency on U.S. revenues topped the list.
Key insights for the year ahead
Key insights for the year ahead
Key insights for the year ahead
Thematic investing is a top-down investment approach that relies on research to explore macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological trends. These trends encompass long-term, structural shifts arising from new business models, disruptive technologies and changing consumer tastes and behaviors—megatrends that have the potential to change whole industries and shape the way we will live, work, travel and treat disease in the future.
This is the third instalment of our ‘Fact(or) Fiction?’ series, which aims to debunk some common myths around factor investing. In this instalment, we explore the simple concepts that underpin factor investing.
An objective gauge of the contribution by the world’s public companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.
An objective gauge of the contribution by the world’s public companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.
After the market dislocation of 2023, investors will be hoping for a calmer 2024 in commercial real estate. We identify five key influences to help investors navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead.
