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The rise of inflation has brought up once again the question of costs and benefits relating to addressing climate change

We are at a tipping point not only in terms of credibility but also reversibility of the impact we made on our planet, its climate and its atmosphere

Bondholders are the suppliers of new capital for investment and growth. Shareholders can vote, but the supply of retained earnings or new equity issuances is small in comparison with debt funding. Investors must behave Responsibly in their capital allocation. And we, at Candriam, have the Conviction that including Climate in the decision improves risk-adjusted returns. 

Humans are not the apex predator, although we act that way. Nature may fight back and demonstrate how weak we really are. Our Sovereign Sustainability model,  designed for investment analysis, also offers holistic insights as well as numerical. Perhaps both our investments, and our future, come down to something quite simple --  Don't fight Mother Nature.

Emerging nations face a dilemma. On the one hand, they have a strong understanding of the need to protect the climate for future generations. Yet the imperatives of today are to improve their societies and living standards, which requires increased energy and electricity at affordable cost.

It’s clear that private real estate has been in focus with allocators for some time.  For much of the last five years, institutional investors have been keen to build private markets allocations to augment performance.  Real estate has been a major part of that shift.

Index investing continues its “unstoppable” rise and is expected to overtake active investing by 2026 at the latest, according to Bloomberg. This trend can be utilised by some equity market neutral strategies to generate returns uncorrelated either to bonds or equities.

By all means, forecast the number of M&A deals if you want to forecast bankers' bonuses, Wall Street profits, or new debt issuance. As for Risk Arbitrage, we have more interesting things to think about for 2022.