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Index | Market trends
Amid a potential US default, equity investors’ message to Congress is, ‘Better Be Good to Me’
Investors are right to focus on the US debt ceiling showdown these days, instead of key upcoming economic releases including the May jobs report. While a US default would unleash global economic Armageddon, markets have been relatively calm so far.
The ROOF methodology can capture the ‘sentiment’ of a portfolio relative to its benchmark. We run ROOF scores to determine the risk appetite of investors holding four portfolios aligned with respective Sustainable Development Goals.
Index | Portfolio Risk Management
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia: Qontigo’s d’Assier: Central Banks Won’t Help Investors
Olivier d’Assier, Qontigo Head of APAC Applied Research, speaks in “Bloomberg Daybreak Asia” with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts. He says the message from central banks to investors is clear: “Help is definitely not coming”. He discusses how this will play out in the markets and other risks to sentiment.
As the outlook for Technology stocks appears uncertain, we look at the risk-management benefits for Korean investors of adding a little DAX exposure to a KOSPI portfolio.
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 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 | Factor Investing
STOXX Factor Indices: Targeted Factor Exposures with Managed Liquidity and Risk Profiles
The STOXX Factor Index suite is comprised of five single-factor indices and a multifactor index engineered to deliver the excess returns associated with each factor using a diversified index of securities with carefully managed exposure, liquidity and risk characteristics.
In this paper, we take a look at how minimum variance performed vis-à-vis its core market counterpart during nine recent geopolitical risk events. The nature of these events is that they tend to push correlations towards 1.0.
In “An Aussie sense of style”, Axioma’s latest paper on smart beta products, we take a look at the inherent compromise between delivering target factor purity versus maximizing factor exposure.