Find the third post by Privatam : The issuer of a structured product will take the opposite bet from the investor. It wants the investor to lose money, so it makes money. structured product will take the opposite bet Reality: A resounding no. + When a bank issues a product, it will lookContinue…
UN Climate Change has begun a new partnership with the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX), the world’s first fully digital carbon exchange, to promote carbon offsetting via emission reductions certified by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The ACX was launched in 2019 with a vision of bringing transparency, efficiency andContinue…
The Global Risks Report series tracks global risks perceptions among risk experts and world leaders in business, government, and civil society. It examines risks across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological. Every year the report also analyses key risks to explore further in deep-dive chapters—these could be risks that featureContinue…
A transition to a low-carbon economy could trigger an increase in inflation in the medium term due to rising energy prices — generally known as “greenflation.”1 In addition to these inflationary pressures, the increased investment demand that the energy transition would require could raise real interest rates. Both these evolutions couldContinue…
Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc. and Inveniam.io, its operating system for private market data that drives price discovery and automated waterfall calculation, announced a partnership with Tokeny Solutions. The partnership includes a €5m investment in the Monaco-Luxembourg-based tokenization platform; the investment is led by Inveniam with participation from K20 Fund and ApexContinue…
To offer to investors indicators that allow them to make the right investment while aligning their portfolios with the Paris agreements, Carbon4 is proposing its latest methodology: the Carbon Impact Analytics methodoloogical guide – CIA. Last month, Carbon4 also updated its Climate Risk Impact Screening methodological guide. Carbon Impact Analytics (CIA)Continue…
Leading US funds are accelerating their sustainable investment policies, report from OMFIF and Mazars finds ESG US asset management Environmental, social and governance investment and regulation have grown exponentially in the US over the past few years, posing new challenges and opportunities for investors. How can financial institutions bridge theContinue…
MSCI presents its top 10 of ESG trends for 2022. This year, climate change has come to surpass corporate governance as the most pressing ESG issue commanding investors’ attention, and ESG investing truly has gone mainstream (and is attracting the regulatory attention to prove it). Yet there are new risksContinue…
Is ESG (environmental, social and governance) everywhere these days? Certainly, interest in sustainable investing is growing globally, driven by investors trying to increase risk-adjusted returns (“doing well”) and support sustainable outcomes (“doing good”). But some investors still worry that focusing on ESG could hamper financial returns. The JP Morgan analysisContinue…
The EBC paper analyses the exposure to climate risk of ABS, an asset class frequently pledged as collateral in the European Central Bank (ECB) refinancing operations. Climate Risk Measurement of Assets Eligible as Collateral for Refinancing Operations –focuses on Asset Backed Securities (ABS) backed by auto loans or loans grantedContinue…
