Name: What's been driving your hedge fund benchmark?
Start: 2020-11-16T14:15:00Z
End: 2020-11-16T14:39:18.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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For Wholesale clients and Institutional/Professional Investors only - not to be further circulated
For professional investors (in Switzerland for qualified investors) only - not for retail investors

This climate action webinar will focus on carbon analysis in investment portfolios: what the different carbon metrics are telling you and the implications for investment decisions and real world decarbonisation. There will be a particular focus on different use cases and questions related to assessing carbon emissions across different asset classes and regions, including: 

- What metric do you choose and what difference does it make to your decarbonisation journey & investment choices?
- Where are data gaps most prevalent and how do you deal with them?  
- How do we take a forward looking view on carbon beyond taking targets at face value?

Ultimately, does a focus on carbon help understand portfolio alignment and have a positive impact on real world progress towards net zero in the regions where it is most needed?

Eva Cairns, Head of Sustainability Insights and Climate Strategy, will host a session on this topic with our carbon expert Nick Gaskell and abrdn fund managers across Fixed Income, Equities and Real Estate to bring the challenges to life in day to day investing. There will be a short presentation from each asset class representative, followed by a panel and audience Q&A.

Climate Action series - Focus on Carbon: Why the choice of carbon metric matters

Global Corporate Bond Fund Q2 2022

European Corporate Bond Fund Q2 2022

James Britton, Deputy core Funds, will give an update on why you should consider our Global Real Estate Fund (GREF) in your clients portfolio for providing diversification in the uncertain economic environment.

Real Estate: providing diversification in an uncertain economic environment

Against a changing macro backdrop that has seen interest rates and inflation rise significantly, we see the dividend landscape in Europe as an attractive hunting ground for returns going forward. The ASI Europe ex UK Income Equity Fund is set up to challenge multiple economic scenarios, and through its balanced approach we believe is well positioned to capture the opportunity in today’s markets.

Find out more about our market views, why European dividends are of particular interest, and where we are finding high conviction ideas by joining our live event.

Investing for income in an inflationary world

This webinar discusses the outcome of COP 26 and what this means for pension schemes. Hear from our experts on the new climate change governance and reporting requirements and the impact of this on the defined benefit pensions industry.

How can ESG and climate policy improve the DB outlook?

Global Corporate Bond Fund Q1

European Corporate Bond Fund Q1 Update

David Bint will give an update on performance, activity and outlook for Q2

Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Q1 update

Global inflation rates are now at multi-decade highs according to recent data, and given today’s geopolitical backdrop, there are concerns that rising costs are here for the foreseeable future. 

Peter Marsland, Investment Specialist hosts a discussion with our experts as they analyse the outlook for inflation and investment. Are there assets that provide a degree of insulation from the effects of inflation and interest rate rises? Our panel will debate this question, and examine the longer term inflation picture with reference to themes like demographics and de-globalisation.

Where next for investors as inflation surges?

The conflict in Ukraine creates significant political and economic uncertainties. The imposed sanctions will clearly hurt Russia but also the rest of the world via higher energy prices, higher non-energy commodity prices, as well as reduced trade with Russia and Ukraine. 

The longer the conflict continues, the longer commodity prices will remain high, further exacerbating the pre-existing problem of high inflation. This leaves investors with numerous questions. What will higher commodity prices mean at a time when global inflation is already high? Could this, and higher rates, lead to a global recession?

The Ukraine conflict: Are we heading for a recession?

Listen to our latest discussion on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist is joined by Devan Kaloo, Global Head of Public Markets, Brett Diment, Global Head of Emerging Market Debt and Edward Glossop, Emerging Market Economist to talk about the geopolitical and macroeconomic implications and what this will mean to all markets and investors.

Russia and Ukraine: The changing situation - live discussion with Q&A

Emerging market investors face a number of headwinds. Inflation is high and climbing. Central banks, both in emerging markets and globally, are tightening policy. The Chinese economy has slowed, as the country’s zero-Covid-19 policy takes its toll and regulations hit home. The geopolitical landscape remains a morass. So, the question is: do emerging markets make a compelling long term investment?

In our view, 2022 will undoubtedly be a challenging environment for investors. However, valuations in both equity and bond markets have already priced in these headwinds to a large extent. As such, we believe this creates an attractive environment for diligent investors with proven research and selection skills.

Listen to our experts while they discuss what they’ve learnt through their 35 years on-the-ground-experience of investing in emerging markets. Learn about how markets and companies have been transforming, and the evolution of investing strategies over time. We will also take a closer look at the growing importance of ESG factors in the emerging market investing, particularly with respect to seeking alignment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Looking into the next generation of Emerging Markets

Investing in Infrastructure has a number of attractions for pension funds. These include steady and predictable returns, inflation linked revenues and a low correlation to other asset classes. In addition, the long life of Infrastructure assets coupled with the lengthy term contracts in place makes an allocation well suited to institutional investors.

Regulation and member interest is driving the requirement to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance considerations into investments, including Infrastructure. 

Euan Baird, Director, UK Institutional, abrdn
Dan Grandage, Head of ESG, Real Assets, abrdn
Dominic Helmsley, Head of Economic Infrastructure, abrdn
Lisa Tomaschek, Investment Manager, abrdn

Infrastructure ESG Webinar - Which is more important:  E, S or G?

In this session, a panel of abrdn experts take a look at the outlook for fixed income following the last 12 months and examine what this means for pension schemes and their ESG considerations.

Rethinking Fixed Income Investing

In this session, Aymeric will examine the ways in which ESG can influence a multi-asset investment strategy. He will also look at how ESG can be effectively integrated into multi-asset investing using innovative techniques, together with the importance of ESG reporting.

The impact of ESG on Multi-Asset portfolios

The global economy is set to expand 5.6 percent in 2021—its strongest post-recession pace in 80 years. As the ‘new normal’ materialises, previously held assumptions and understandings about asset allocation are being challenged, forcing allocators to rethink their investment strategies to ensure they can generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors. 

While portfolios were typically diversified by equity and bond splits, decreasing yields mean government bonds are becoming an increasingly risky option. To manage risk, asset allocators need to rethink the conventional concept of 60/40, and assume a more active approach to asset allocation, risk management and suitability profile. 

In this session, we’ll explore new approaches to asset allocation and give you the tools you need to future-proof your multi-asset solutions. 

Topics for discussion include:

Should bonds still form part of a multi-asset approach?
Integrating alternative assets
Mitigating portfolio risk in the post-Covid world
And more…

Panelists:
Glenn Gonzales, Owner & CEO of Obsidian Capital
Ulf Füllgraf, Managing Director at Alpha Centauri, Hamburg  
Kevin Mahn, President & Chief Investment Officer at Hennion & Walsh
Aymeric Forest, CIO Multi Asset & Investment Solutions at Abrdn

Future-Proof Multi-Asset Strategies

Join Neil Odom-Haslett and Eddie Gimlette for an overview of the current opportunity in which they highlight why now is a good time for pension schemes to invest in CRED.

The UK CRED opportunity and how pension funds can invest

Join ASI for a live hedge fund review and outlook. Duncan Moir will recap hedge fund and liquid alternative benchmark performance in the third quarter. Darren Wolf, ASI’s alternatives global head of investments will discuss the resurgence in stock picking and provide some insight into the team’s hedge fund outlook for 2021.

What's been driving your hedge fund benchmark?

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