Papers about stocks market risks and ESG piqued your interest the most in 2021. Flows into ESG funds remained solid throughout the year, while equity markets reached record highs. As equity markets rose, so did assets in Intech ESG-tilt portfolios, which had surpassed US$15 billion in AUM by September 30, 2021.
The top five papers you read in 2021, according to Intech, are mentioned below.
How a New Benchmark Adds to Defensive Equity Strategy Evaluation
As featured in The Journal of Index Investing, Intech’s paper explores how an active strategy benchmarked to a Minimum Volatility Index preserves the benefits of defensive equity, while adding alpha you can measure and explain. Click here to see how a new benchmark adds to defensive equity strategy evaluation.
ESG Data: Overcoming the Challenges - A Special Report
In this Special Report, Savvy Investor featured Intech’s take on the difficulties presented by ESG data – and what asset owners need to know about how managers should best approach them. Read the report to learn requirements for useful ESG data, how managers can mitigate ESG data challenges, and what you should look for in your ESG manager.
How to Boost Your ESG Scores and Preserve Your Risk-Reward Outcomes
ESG implementations may invite steep trade-offs in return, risk, and ESG consistency at the portfolio level. See our research before settling on an approach to ESG investing.
How Your Cash-Flow-Negative Plan Can Use Cash-Flow-Aware Growth
Is your plan cash-flow-negative? Is it underfunded too? Read this paper to identify the mounting challenges of cash-flow-negative plans, understand how cash-flow-driven investment components target specific funding needs and see a risk-reward breakdown of income-producing growth assets.
Can You Make Low Vol and Low Carbon Investing Compatible?
De-risking and decarbonization – two imperatives of our day – appear to be on a collision course. After all, many of the most defensive, least volatile stocks are also the most egregious carbon emitters. Read on to see if you can reconcile these objectives and identify the trade-offs.
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