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ESG Matters: Global Trends and Transitions

November 23, 2023

How are women growing in importance in the investment ecosystem? How are firms approaching the sustainability journey? What is the Nordic perspective on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) space?…

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The Fed’s Blindspot on Global Inflation Drivers

What is driving the surge in inflation and how are central banks misplaying their hand? China: A “One-Country Check on Global Inflation” In “Monetary Policy in the Grip of a…

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How Sharp Is the Sharpe Ratio? An Analysis of Global Stock Indices

Investors across the globe use the Sharpe Ratio, among other risk-adjusted metrics, to compare the performance of mutual fund and hedge fund managers as well as asset classes and individual…

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ESG Criteria: Global Asset Managers Expand Their Embrace

The number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benchmarks and indexes demanded by the asset management community has grown at an unprecedented rate over the past two years. That’s according…

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Strong or Volcker? The Fed and Global Financial Stability

Mark J. Higgins, CFA, CFP, and Raphael Palone, CFA, CFP, will be presenting at the Planejar Annual Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 24 October 2022. Their program compares the…

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The FX Global Code: Why Now Is the Time

Not for syndication. This article cannot be republished without the express permission of RBC Global Asset Management Inc. What if I told you that the largest, most liquid market in…

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A Global Proxy Voting Database: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

November 13, 2023

The proxy voting system has taken on added importance amid growing interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues and how investors vote on related shareholder proposals. Institutional Shareholder Services…

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Global Supply Chain Transformation: Uncertainty and Opportunity

Economic data reflect global supply chain restructuring. Nearly two years into the regionalization, nearshoring, re-shoring, and “friend-shoring” of the global supply chain restructuring process, US and overseas economic data are…

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