Why Bill Gates and John Kerry are wrong about climate change
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There’s a recent phenomenon in which smart people, mostly white men, parachute down from a higher plane to tell us mere mortals the truth about fighting climate change. Colorfully dubbed “first-time climate dudes” by journalist Emily Atkin of the newsletter
Heated, they invariably offer some version of doom and gloom, whether it’s Bill Gates calling any attempt to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions to near zero “a fairy tale”, or novelist Jonathan Franzen proclaiming in the
New Yorker that we must “accept that disaster is coming.”
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Dewi John: Equity takes a trip – in an ethical way
You may not be going abroad any time soon – but here is why your equity allocation is likely to
The big success story of late has been global equities. The Refinitiv Lipper classification Equity Global has raked in £16.9bn from UK investors over the 12 months to the end of March. That is heavily loaded towards the back end, with £5.5bn in the last quarter of 2020 and £6.5bn in the first quarter of 2021.
Global equities’ popularity is not simply a facet of the broader asset class. Asset allocators and academics have long mourned investors’ home bias to the detriment of optimising risk-adjusted returns. That is certainly not the case now, as Equity UK has shed £1.8bn over the past year – losing £2.2bn in the first quarter of 2021 alone – despite the rally in the shares of UK PLC.
Blue sky thinking about the ideas destined to become big money spinners is among the most creative - and exciting - aspects of investing.
Predicting what the world will look like in coming decades is notoriously hard though, and even financial professionals often get unstuck when forecasting trends and finding the companies most likely to exploit them successfully.
So, you need to keep your prophesy-making tendencies in proportion, and only allocate small portions of your Isa portfolio to niche themes.
But if you do want to take the risk and do that, what might the future look like? We asked financial experts what sensible investors should consider before they put money into thematic funds, before doing some of their own crystal ball-gazing on what will make a fortune in the future.
More to come : Schroders targets impact and thematics in ESG launch plans
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Value and regional-oriented strategies in pipeline
Doug Abbott of Schroders
Schroders Investment Management is in the process of developing a swathe of new funds and investment trust launches, focusing on sustainability and impact products.
In response to a spike in client demand for ESG-linked products, Schroders is looking to bring new funds to market as soon as late summer , according to head of UK intermediary Doug Abbott.
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