Each year FTSE Russell conducts a global survey to explore trends in sustainable investment adoption and asset owners’ priorities, concerns and approaches to key risks and opportunities. What were the findings this year?
Monthly Archives: September 2026
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The emerging market opportunity set has changed materially. As traditional macro drivers become less dominant, investors may need to reassess how they evaluate emerging market exposure, risk, and portfolio construction.
The move in yields last week was significant but not entirely unexpected. What was surprising was seeing such a large repricing in a single day following economic data that does not ordinarily generate this kind of market reaction.
Our dependence on various articles that give rise to microplastics, means that they can never truly be phased out. But investors can create a positive impact by aligning their investments with their sustainability concerns.
Stocks are now positive in the seasonally unfriendly month of September following a trio of favorable foreign affair developments.
The Fed raised rates 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00%, validating bond-market expectations as persistent inflation pushed Chair Warsh to finally ‘walk the walk’ on his hawkish rhetoric.
By choosing entities with advantages on multiple different business dimensions, it gives investors a higher probability of success. Consider how, in sports, a championship group is rarely one dimensional, or dependent on one player.
The Fed seems to be less inclined to push yields lower this time. In November 2023, it changed its statement to refer to “tighter financial and credit conditions”, rather than just “tighter credit conditions”.
The Health Care sector is showing renewed momentum after several years of relative underperformance. While the sector’s recent outperformance during market volatility may look characteristically defensive, its longer-term opportunity is increasingly being tied to innovation.
From General Electric, Toyota and Exxon Mobil to Apple and Microsoft, and lately Nvidia, the identity of the world’s largest listed company has changed repeatedly over the past few decades.
Stocks were mixed last week as markets continued to navigate geopolitical concerns and new signals about short-term interest rates.
July 2026 will be remembered as a turbulent month for IBM shareholders. But IBM's record post-earnings selloff overshadowed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, that strengthens its long-term quantum computing strategy.