Future-proofing their portfolios has been racing up investors’ agendas since the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s 2015 landmark speech Breaking the tragedy of the horizon. He categorised three risks from global warming: physical, such […]

2016 ushered in an age of techno-utopianism when a computer algorithm called AlphaGo made history. It beat the 18-time world champion of Go, a fiendishly complicated ancient Chinese board game with an astonishing 10170 possible […]

The idea that companies that are rated high on a myriad of ESG metrics will deliver superior investment returns has long lost its currency. The key issue now is how far ESG considerations are pertinent […]

A growing number of institutional investors are switching to alternative risk premia: a systematic rules-based style of investing used by hedge fund managers for the past three decades. Under it, asset classes can be broken […]

Remember BRIC? If not, you’re not the only one. In hindsight, it seems like a big marketing ploy. The acronym was coined in the last decade to highlight the rise of four awakening giants – […]

Being ‘green’ is simple but not easy. An outstanding investment phenomenon of this decade is the sky-rocketing popularity of investment funds that embed environmental, social and governance principles. Its speed and scale have, in turn, […]

On 15 October 2014, the yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury note plunged from 2.02% to 1.86%,  an event that was meant to occur only once every 3.5 billion years according to Jamie Dimon, […]