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The U.S. presidential election could reshape the climate investing landscape
By Robin Kollannur and Alyx Flournoy Global election cycles can have important impacts on the climate investing landscape. Elections often lead to changes in policy, which can affect short to medium-term stock price performance in public equities. It is critical to look at political developments from both a risk and opportunity standpoint. Political uncertainty can impact company valuations, but favorable policies can also provide a strong backdrop for outperformance.
Are Supply Chain Relationships the Causation for Correlation?
Performance and Risk By Bill McCoy | May 2, 2017 Everyone agrees that understanding correlation is important for risk-aware portfolio management. However, working with correlation is difficult for a variety of reasons, and the trend in quantitative portfolio management is to reduce the dimensionality of correlation and thus eliminate correlation between entities.
Six Takeaways from Key Risk Providers on the Latest Trends and Solutions in Risk Management
Performance and Risk By Alyx Flournoy, CFA | March 19, 2019 Over the past decade, there has been a huge demand for risk management as well as a significant increase in demand for risk modeling and risk analytics in the financial industry. We’ve seen disruption in the industry over the past couple of years, particularly around massive consolidation, analytics providers in the fixed income space, and in the index solution space.
Turbulence Adjusted Risk: Applications for Asset Allocation and Selection
Performance and Risk By Alyx Flournoy, CFA | January 16, 2019 Observations of financial markets have shown that while many financial risk models rely on the assumption of normal return distributions, financial instruments can exhibit extremely non-normal behavior, even in supposedly calm markets. The relevance of new measures for market calmness, or lack thereof, is emerging as we see the new “normal” regime turning more to increased market volatility and turbulence.
Insurance Industry and Financials Sector Earnings at Risk Again Due to Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence is expected to cause significant property damage and business losses across the southeast coast of the U.S. over the next few days. From a corporate earnings perspective, what sectors or industries in the S&P 500 are likely to see a negative impact from the hurricane? One industry that will likely see a negative impact from Hurricane Florence is the Insurance industry, as companies in this industry will record catastrophic losses for the property damage caused by the storm.
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