Viewpoints about ESG / sustainable investing
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What is ESG investing?
The importance of ESG factors in investing has grown rapidly, leaving many onlookers playing catch-up. In this article, we’ll explain what ESG investing is and what it means for investors.
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Rising rates and real estate: Three-minute macro
A hawkish BoC should have Canadian homeowners on watch as interest-rate rises will likely eat into their purchasing power. We also break down why green energy stocks are underperforming this year and why stagflation is such a scary word.
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Manulife Private Wealth’s ESG Charter – Our journey
The following provides an overview of Manulife Private Wealth’s approach to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing.
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Applying an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) lens to our macroeconomic and investment analysis
Watch our latest podcast and learn how sustainability issues could influence the way financial markets respond to traditional economic developments and data points.
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The Delta effect: Three-minute macro
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is certainly complicating the outlook for the global economy, and we’re keeping an eye on five ways that those complications may materialize. We also take an ESG lens on the gig economy and discuss the yield situation among emerging-market debt.
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Applying an ESG lens to macroeconomic analysis—a starting place
In our view, ESG factors play an increasingly important role in macroeconomic analysis and the formulation of investment outlooks. Find out why.
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Opportunities you’ve only heard of through the grapevine: private assets
What are real assets and what can they offer? Allocating to any type of private real asset may enhance a portfolio’s yield profile while reducing its price volatility relative to mainstream assets.
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Discover the expertise of Manulife’s internal Global Manager Research (GMR) team
Discover how the Global Manager Research team works with Manulife Private Wealth as well as its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration in portfolio design for Manulife Private Wealth’s underlying managers.
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Go long on the Earth
William E. Peressini, CEO of HNRG, and Brian J. Kernohan, head of sustainability for private markets, explore the urgent warning posed by the COVID-19 pandemic of the consequences of failing to act on climate change. How can nature itself provide the solutions that are key to mitigating climate change?
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ESG portfolio resilience to social dislocations
Are sustainable approaches better equipped to handle systemic social risks? We discuss the material social factors we've observed during the pandemic and how sustainable strategies have attracted attention for their risk management and performance.
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