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Index | ESG & Sustainability
The Best Bang for Your Climate-Aware Buck (Or Pound, Euro, Yen – You Name It)
In this paper we attempt to answer the following questions: in which region can you make the most impact, and how much active risk is required to achieve your climate goals?
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Risk, Return and Sustainability: Qontigo ESG Target Indices Provide an Optimal Solution
While sustainable investing is not a new concept, its growing popularity means a sharper focus is needed on how to achieve sustainability goals without sacrificing returns or taking on too much unintended risk.
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 — and Do — to Successfully Adapt
There is no denying the impact of climate change — and associated regulatory realities — on the business of investment management. For portfolio managers, it is essential to understand how to successfully adapt and prepare for what some call the “mother of all correlated risks”. Here we expose — in three parts — what portfolio managers need to know when switching to a fully Paris Aligned Benchmark (PAB) portfolio from a current market-cap weighted (CWB) portfolio.
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.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
The STOXX Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark: A Better Path to Success?
The STOXX® Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark Index was launched in June 2020. In backtested data since March 2018, we find that the strategy has offered a higher return and lower volatility versus its benchmark. This paper drills down into some of the factors driving those results.