Kiosk Alternatives to financial markets investments
The financial investment is not limited to financial markets assets and the current uncertainties obviously feed such thoughts. Indeed, there are many investment vehicles that could create value in a portfolio.
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Interview Jean-Sébastien Debusschere : « The philosophy of the fund is to purchase and operate the forests around the world. »
Jean-Sebastien Debusschere, CIO of Fourwinds Capital Management explains the strategy of its fund focused on an original approach: forest investment.
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Strategy Climate Change and agriculture : risks and opportunities
According to Schroders’ Climate Change investment team, climate change acts as a threat multiplier to the sector on top of the dual impacts of the increased demand and decreased supply, and that this will present various investment opportunities throughout the value (...)
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Note Carbon leakage or desirable abatement? The curious case of aluminium
If there has been carbon leakage during Phases I & II of the EU ETS, primary aluminium seems, at first glance, like a good candidate for it. The sector competes intensively with producers outside of Europe
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News Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has confirmed its engagement with the SRI market
According to Pierre Nebout, Co-head of European equity management at EDRAM, this program represents the interests of a growing number of shareholders and combines a long track record with an expert understanding of French (...)
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Regulation The future of project-based mechanisms in Durban: the European Union has a role to play
With some 4,000 initiatives registered to date, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) have proved their usefulness for reducing emissions and attracting investments. However, this success could be called into question in the absence of a clear (...)
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Note Launch of green bonds
The term «Green Bonds» is more frequently used to describe a market that should mature very fast in order to deal with numerous requests for investments in the field of green infrastructure projects.
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News Groupama AM reaffirms today its commitment to being an actively responsible asset manager
Management and analyst teams, like sales teams and support functions underline their commitment to the responsible management of their daily activities..
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News AG2R - La Mondiale: winner of the 2011 responsible investor award
The aim of the Responsible Investor Award is to reward institutional investors who have stood out as responsible investors through their actions over the previous twelve months.
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SRI CDC Climat, serving the economics of climate change
CDC Climat, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts, develops carbon market services, invests in carbon assets and its research team conducts independent, neutral analyses for public authorities, market players and the general (...)
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Note The Timing Impact Approach: How particularities of carbon markets influence market ?
With the current ‘back-loading’ proposal of the European Commission on the table it is essential to further examine the specialities of carbon markets to assess the implications of the proposal on the market development of the EU ETS. An emission right is a new kind of good (...)
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Innovation NYSE Euronext and EasyETF launch European low-carbon index...
...and ETF managed by BNP Paribas Asset Management, in partnership with AgriSud, GoodPlanet.org and WWF
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News Market in Carbon emissions is victim of allowances theft
Following a series of hacking, computer hackers would have hijacked earlier this year, several million tons of CO2, by exploiting the weakness of the security systems of national registries ....
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Note The SRI, does it transform itself when it applies to new asset classes ?
Apply the SRI outside the traditional securities (equities and corporate debt), is it not such a good idea, especially within the times and/or an irrelevant hegemonic order ?
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News Insuring livestock to protect the poor
Livestock insurance has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of poor populations. The challenges are formidable, but recent technology offers hope...
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Quant Papers
SRI is not a positive discriminator of the performance of european landholding trusts -
April 2011
