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Melissa Brown, Qontigo’s Global Head of Applied Research, spoke with Hardika Singh of The Wall Street Journal about her outlook on the markets. According to Melissa, market rallies during low trading volumes of the summer months can be hard to maintain come fall when volumes typically increase.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Beyond ESG: From ‘How Does Sustainability Affect My Portfolio’ to ‘How Does My Portfolio Affect the World?’
ESG integration, sustainability, and impact investing…While there may be overlap in the meanings of these terms, they each represent a distinct approach to “doing well while doing good” in investor portfolios.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Climate Impact Investing Is Coming On Fast…What Portfolio Managers Need to Know to Make the Transition
There is no denying the impact of climate change — and associated regulatory realities — on the business of investment management.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Climate Transition Risk – The Market Impact You Get for the Climate Impact You Had
Ahead of the Qontigo Summit, Olivier d’Assier analyzes the cost of adapting a portfolio to meet global warming targets using a STOXX Paris-Aligned Benchmark index. The results show that an early but gradual transition can dramatically reduce the market impact and transaction costs.
Index | Portfolio Risk Management
Low Volatility Strategies: Why the Wheels Came Off (Temporarily) in 2020
Low Volatility strategies have a deservedly good reputation for offering investors equity-like returns with less risk.
Index | Portfolio Risk Management
Low Volatility Strategies: Why the Wheels Came Off (Temporarily) in 2020
A new Qontigo paper on global Low Volatility strategies compares 2020 returns with those over the longer term.
Melissa Brown discusses the STOXX® Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark Index, and the strategy driving a higher return and lower volatility than its benchmark.
September 2018 marked the tenth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, an event that epitomizes the traumatic happenings of 2008.
Equity markets struggled in June, led by Europe and emerging economies, as US barriers on imports raised concerns that a trade war is unfolding.
The violent market pullbacks that many traders had gotten used to living without are back. The STOXX® Global 1800 Index plunged 7.5%1 between Feb. 2 and Feb. 8, its steepest five-day decline since August 2015.
The synchronized growth witnessed in 2017 is expected to continue this year, according to economists, who say markets can weather the gradual normalization of monetary policy.
Despite the Fed’s and the ECB’s divergent trajectories, the dollar fell against the euro to $1.18 in December from $1.05 in January, confounding expectations. At the start of 2017, the average forecast from five banks pointed to the euro ending the year at $1.05.