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AI, ESG, SRI, Benjamin ChekrounWhy we can’t ignore AI governance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a familiar part of our lives, but we are only just beginning to realise the risks associated with it. With regulation unable to keep pace, AI governance is now a major issue. -
Ken Van Weyenberg, Quentin Duquesne, Equities, GeopoliticsEuropean defence autonomy: rearming with purpose
For decades, European defence budgets were treated as a discretionary line item, a peace dividend to be spent elsewhere. Russia's invasion of Ukraine broke that assumption. The ensuing years featuring a less predictable transatlantic security relationship and the growing importance of cyber, drones and space have only reinforced that break.
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Fixed Income
Credit, Tame risk, ESG, SRI, Fixed Income
Identifying Climate Risk in Credit
When climate indices disagree, is the gap simply noise - or a risk that credit markets price? This paper connects academic research with investment practice to explore climate beta uncertainty in US and European corporate bonds.
Credit, Tame risk, AI, Fixed Income, Research Paper
The AI debt wave
AI’s infrastructure boom is drawing some of the world’s largest technology companies deeper into debt markets.
Tame risk, Credit, Charudatta Shende, Fixed Income
Candriam Credit Outlook
Credit markets have remained resilient, with yields still at interesting levels. But tight spreads, rising bond issuance and growing dispersion mean selectivity is becoming increasingly important.
Fixed Income, Tame risk, Credit, Charudatta Shende
Credit’s Circular Conundrum
Credit markets have spent the summer displaying an almost improbable degree of composure. Renewed tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, disruption to tanker traffic and sharp swings in oil prices repeatedly unsettled rates markets, while the continuing war in Ukraine has ensured that geopolitical risk never receded far from view.
Fixed Income, Monthly Coffee Break
Underlying US inflation offers some encouragement
We retain a modest tactical duration overweight between the 3-5Y tenors on the Treasury curve.
Fixed Income
Positive on euro investment grade
We move US nominal duration back to neutral after the front-end overweight implemented last month. The main reason is the first FOMC meeting under Kevin Warsh and the market reaction that followed.
Fixed Income
Improving economic surprises
We move our view on US duration from neutral to a modest positive grade, implemented through the front end of the curve.
Research Paper, Fixed Income, Credit, Tame risk, Charudatta Shende, Marie Thomin
Credit: Taming a Wide Universe
Credit markets have evolved. What was once considered a single asset class has become a broad, fragmented and multi-layered ecosystem spanning bonds, derivatives, private markets, currencies and capital structures—from senior secured debt to subordinated and hybrid instruments.