Talking Heads

Talking Heads

By: BNP Paribas Asset Management

Language: en

Categories: Business, Investing

BNP Paribas Asset Management’s Talking Heads podcast offers in-depth insights on the topics that really matter to investors. Each week, our investment experts join Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, to analyse the market through the lens of sustainability.  For more insights, visit Viewpoint: https://viewpoint.bnpparibas-am.com/  Download the Viewpoint app: https://onelink.to/tpxq34   Follow us on LinkedIn: https://bnpp.lk/am    Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Episodes

Sustainability now the core driver of GDP growth in Asia
Dec 11, 2025

Geologically and meteorologically, Asia is vulnerable when it comes to the fallout from climate change. Crystal Geng, Asia ESG Research Lead, talks to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris about the factors driving Asia's push for decarbonisation, nature conservation, and greater equality.


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Duration: 00:09:37
Emerging market debt likely to keep basking in the sun
Dec 05, 2025

Emerging markets are generally in good shape, providing a supportive backdrop for EM bonds, in particular those in local currencies. On this week’s podcast, they also discuss the outlook for hard currency EM debt, particularly with an eye on expectations for the dollar, US monetary policy, trade and commodity prices.


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Duration: 00:06:43
Getting China back on the path to sustainable growth
Nov 25, 2025

Economic growth in China has slowed over the past 2-1/2 years although Beijing has undertaken numerous fiscal measures to stimulate growth, encourage investment, prop up the property market and restore consumer confidence. Listen to Chi Lo, Global Market Strategist, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris, as they discuss the government’s efforts to steer the economy back on to a path of sustainable growth.


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Duration: 00:06:43
Highlighting the role of natural capital in portfolios
Nov 21, 2025

What role can natural capital assets such as woodland, but also farmland, play in institutional investors' portfolios? Listen to our podcast with Celine Claudon, Chief Commercial Officer for International Woodland Company, and Andy Craig, Co-Head of the Investment Insights Centre.


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Duration: 00:07:08
Getting the best out of the quality factor in European equities
Nov 12, 2025

Investing in European stocks on the basis of quality-focused criteria has gone through a rough patch, but as Carmine De Franco, Head of Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management, tells Andrew Craig, Co-Head of the Investment Insight Centre, investors should not lose faith: quality has a place in diversified portfolios implementing investment factors. Over the last 25 years, three types of factor investing — quality, growth and value—have stood out due to their distinct attributes and impact on portfolio performance at different phases of the economic cycle.


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Duration: 00:07:21
Tailwinds for emerging markets include the weak dollar and AI spending
Nov 05, 2025

Emerging market equities have overcome the initial fallout from US tariffs on imported goods, thanks, in part, to resilient demand in the US and a weak dollar. Zhikai Chen, Head of Global Emerging Market Equities, talks with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris about how the market is adapting to a new paradigm.  


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In Conversation – What to expect at the COP30 climate summit?
Oct 31, 2025

Ahead of November’s COP30 climate summit, Thibaud Clisson, Climate Change Lead, explains where we stand on collective efforts to limit global warming and address the impact of climate change. What progress have stakeholders made over the past year? Can investors look forward to new pledges on topics such as climate financing for developing countries?


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Duration: 00:08:35
What are the megatrends in global equities?
Oct 29, 2025

Key themes in global equity markets besides artificial intelligence currently include renewable energy to power datacentres, defence, which is going through a super-cycle, and – perhaps unexpectedly – undervalued stocks in the healthcare sector. Nadia Grant, Head of Global Equities, talks Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris through these megatrends.  


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Duration: 00:09:06
In Conversation – Bringing together sustainability-minded stakeholders
Oct 22, 2025

Making progress on the energy transition, net zero sustainability, and inclusive growth requires an effort that transcends borders and means involving a wide range of parties including asset owners and policymakers. Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability, talks to Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, about the significance of this meeting, the PRI advocacy network and its principles for responsible investment, and what investors can expect from the PRI in Person in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 4 - 6 November 2025.


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Duration: 00:10:05
A remarkable quarter for exchange-traded funds
Oct 15, 2025

Daniel Dornel, Head of ETF Research, explains to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris why the third quarter was remarkable for inflows into exchange-traded funds. Thematically, defence has remained in the lead, closely followed by artificial intelligence.


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Duration: 00:10:15
Flexibility in global bonds with absolute return
Oct 09, 2025

James McAlevey, Head of Global Aggregate and Absolute Return explains how his team applies the flexibility of an absolute return approach to generate returns regardless of the overall environment in bond markets. Global bond markets are vast, composed of segments ranging from US mortgage-backed securities to emerging market debt, forgetting sovereign bonds, currencies and corporate debt.


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Duration: 00:15:57
Full steam ahead for US small caps
Oct 02, 2025

Overly pessimistic market sentiment towards US small-capitalisation stocks has reversed. Geoff Dailey, Head of US Equities, explains that small caps are benefiting from investor enthusiasm over legislation including investment incentives.


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Duration: 00:10:23
Offering the best of active and passive investing in ETFs
Sep 25, 2025

Actively managed exchange-traded funds are a new generation of investment solutions. Charles Cresteil, Investment Specialist, talks to Daniel Morris, about the advantages of investing in active ETFs including ease of trading and appealing transparency.


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Duration: 00:06:25
What has been happening in the food and agriculture sector?
Sep 18, 2025

Companies across the food and agriculture value chain have been facing challenges ranging from changing eating habits as a result of weight loss drugs to tighter US rules on food additives. Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, and Agne Rackauskaite, Portfolio Manager, discuss the implications of these developments and potential winners and losers.  


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European small-cap stocks have the wind in their sails
Sep 12, 2025

After a lean period in recent years, European small-cap stocks have entered positive territory. Damien Kohler, Head of European Small Caps, talks to Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, about the attractions of small capitalisation companies and their place in portfolios of investors with an appetite for income.


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Duration: 00:07:03
Sustainability, bending, but not breaking
Sep 02, 2025

The global landscape is witnessing a significant shift in sustainability strategies, influenced by political pressures and economic realities. Recent months have been a challenging period with sustainability action under considerable pressure.


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Duration: 00:10:00
Setting a course for investing in the rest of 2025
Aug 06, 2025

With the second half of the year now well underway, what are the prospects for the major economies and financial markets as tariffs remain very much in the headlines? On our podcast, Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centre, that concerns remain over US Treasuries, arguing for an overweight in European bonds versus US sovereign debt.


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Duration: 00:08:59
Combining asset ownership and stewardship
Jul 29, 2025

Voting and engagement matter for any long-term investor. While fewer environmental and social proposals have been voted on, they still obtain widespread support.


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Duration: 00:07:25
What next with digital assets such as tokenised securities?
Jul 22, 2025

When it comes to digital assets, attention often centres on cryptocurrencies, but for an asset manager, digitalisation opens up a wider field of opportunities. On our podcast, Stefan Brinaru, Head of Digital Assets, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that the advantages of tokenisation include more transparency and faster settlement.


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Duration: 00:06:00
A look at the latest ETF flows
Jul 18, 2025

How have investor anxieties over the impact of US tariffs on economic growth, US debt sustainability and generally volatile markets affected recent flows in exchange-traded funds? Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris talks to Daniel Dornel, Head of ETF Research, about the latest trends including flows out of – and back into – US equities and the appetite for less risky asset classes.


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Duration: 00:07:19
Any viable alternatives to a US dollar in the doldrums?
Jul 16, 2025

With the US dollar battered by stop-start tariff policy, fiscal profligacy and questions about the independence of the Federal Reserve, where should investors turn? The dollar index, which measures the currency’s strength against a basket of six others including the pound, euro and yen, slumped more than 10% in the first half of 2025, the worst start to the year since the end of the gold-backed Bretton Woods system in 1973.


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Duration: 00:06:56
Artificial Intelligence - Everything, Everywhere, All at once
Jul 08, 2025

This year’s disruptive jolt from developer DeepSeek showed that the cost of training and using AI models can be trimmed significantly. Listen to our podcast with Portfolio Manager Derek Glynn as he tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that use cases are set to expand far beyond personal assistants and chatbots to include even robotics and augmented reality glasses.


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Duration: 00:12:08
Have green bonds emerged from their niche?
Jul 01, 2025

Green bonds, whose revenues are used to fund green projects such as renewable energy, have matured. On our podcast, Arnaud-Guilhem Lamy, Head of Euro Aggregate and SRI Fixed Income, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that standards and standardisation have improved.


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Duration: 00:08:04
What’s new in thematic investing? Check out our Barometer
Jun 25, 2025

Investors with an appetite for investing in themes are increasingly including private market strategies, according to the Thematics Barometer global survey of decision makers. Discussing this year’s results with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris, Christopher Dunn, Head of Investment Management for Europe for Coalition Greenwich, notes the leading themes include renewable and clean energy, and that interest in artificial intelligence is ‘really off the page’.


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Duration: 00:08:13
What’s new on ocean protection and preservation?
Jun 19, 2025

What are the five human activities threatening the ocean’s health and its ability to support jobs and business and act as a carbon sink? What can sustainability-minded investors do to discourage companies from, for example, trading protected species or engaging in industrial fishing?


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Duration: 00:06:53
Making the case for absolute return bonds
Jun 10, 2025

How can fixed income investors tackle the uncertainty over the outlook for growth and inflation? How will concerns about government finances play out ? Where are interest rates heading? Jayesh Mistry, Absolute Return Portfolio Manager, makes the case for an absolute return approach, with flexibility to benefit from different sectors within global bond markets.


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Duration: 00:06:49
Which long-term themes are set to drive global equity markets?
Jun 05, 2025

Amid market doubts over the US’s exceptionalism, where can investors seeking diversification turn? Is a ‘re-awakened’ Europe an alternative? In this edition, Nadia Grant, Head of Global Equities, shares her views and investment ideas with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.


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Duration: 00:07:25
Investing via an ETF in the European defence sector
May 26, 2025

Geopolitical pressures are forcing Europe to develop an autonomous defence capability. Listen to George Ferguson  Senior Analyst for Aerospace, Defence and Airlines at Bloomberg Intelligence, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centre  talk about prospects for the European defence sector.


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Duration: 00:07:41
It’s a match: infrastructure investing and Europe’s new focus
May 20, 2025

Listen to Karen Azoulay, Head of Real Assets, as she tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that investing in infrastructure fits well with the efforts of the European Commission and governments to boost spending and innovation. The asset class’s stable and predictable cashflows can also offer downside protection, she argues. 


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Duration: 00:08:49
Investing in the resilience of environmental trends
May 15, 2025

Portfolio Manager Sid Jha delves into the value of investing in environmental strategies for sustainable growth. Such strategies can provide diversification when financial markets are volatile and uncertainty over the economic outlook is rife.


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Duration: 00:07:51
Maintaining discipline when equities scatter
May 07, 2025

Guy Davies, CIO of Fundamental Equities and Deputy Head of Investments, talks to Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, about his outlook for equity markets amid expectations of further volatility and a persistent lack of clarity on the outlook for economies and central bank policies, notably in the US.


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Duration: 00:07:36
Curious about private equity?
Apr 30, 2025

Damien Fournier and Lionel Gomez, Co-Heads of Private Equity, discuss the benefits and risks of private equity, as well segments such as venture capital and distressed investments, with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist. They highlight the agility private equity brings in the current market and economic environment and discuss the opportunities in themes such as healthcare and energy transition.


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Duration: 00:08:28
Generating income, protecting capital in bonds
Apr 24, 2025

Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, sits down with Olivier De Larouziere, CIO of Fixed Income, to discuss some of the recent moves in global bond markets. Olivier reminds listeners that one things hasn't changed, namely the number one performance driver for fixed income remains carry.


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Duration: 00:11:30
ETF flows and trends in a world in flux
Apr 22, 2025

Equity flows to exchange-traded funds diverged earlier this year, with outflows from US ETFs but inflows to European, emerging market and China ETFs. These and other topics feature in our quarterly ETF podcast with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, and Daniel Dornel, Head of ETF Research.


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Duration: 00:07:29
Making a difference with impact investing
Apr 16, 2025

Impact investing – making investments for a positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return – is seeing growing interest from investors, even in a world where many types of sustainable investing face scepticism. Berenice Lasfargues, Sustainability Integration Lead, talks to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris about the features of this approach that seeks to invest in companies offering, for example, education tools for dyslexic children or affordable housing.


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Duration: 00:06:11
Tariff turmoil clouds Europe’s economic outlook
Apr 11, 2025

A newly re-energised Europe, lifted by more concerted efforts to address lacklustre growth faces a fresh blow as US plans to re-engineer global trade threaten to sap investor and consumer confidence. Listen to Mario Pietrunti, Senior European Economist, as he explains the direct and indirect effects to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.


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Duration: 00:07:46
The case for long-short convertibles in volatile times
Apr 08, 2025

A popular investment strategy targeting market-neutral exposure involves an overweight exposure to convertible bonds in combination with an underweight in the underlying equity that the bonds typically convert into. Skander discusses with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris how these strategies can appeal to investors looking for less risk and less volatility in their portfolios.


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Duration: 00:06:56
Emerging markets and US tariffs: opening gambit or torpedo?
Apr 04, 2025

What do the latest import tariff announcements from the Trump administration mean for emerging economies and companies around the world? Here, with a first assessment, Zhikai Chen, Head of Global Emerging Markets, shares his views on the impact for Asian and emerging market (EM) economies and companies with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.


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Duration: 00:09:02
Thinking about diversification? Try asset-backed securities
Apr 03, 2025

European securitised assets, backed by loans, mortgages and other categories of (consumer) credit as collateral, offer investors a source of diversification from other forms of credit such as corporate debt. Listen to David Favier, Head of Structured Credit, as he discusses the ins and outs of asset-backed securities and their role as a diversification asset in a broad fixed income portfolio with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist.


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Duration: 00:07:29
A new focus on investing in water
Mar 26, 2025

Several factors are reinforcing the investment case for water utilities and other water infrastructure and treatment companies. Listen to water strategy portfolio managers Justin Winter and Harry Boyle as they cover issues around scarcity and climate change as well as the growing need for ultraclean water for semiconductors and cooling applications for datacentres.


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Duration: 00:12:03
Long-term trends underpin European private equity infrastructure
Mar 20, 2025

Amid geopolitical change and shifts in the focus of public policy, private capital investments in infrastructure have a major role to play. Head of the Private Equity Infrastructure Investment Team Rodolphe Brumm tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, that this asset class benefits from robust characteristics.


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Duration: 00:09:20
Time to unearth value stocks and diversify
Mar 11, 2025

Investment decisions have centred on growth for years, but the current setting of uncertainty, geopolitical turmoil and high volatility argues for a renewed focus on ‘value’. Carmine tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that in value investing, investors should take into account both the market's overall risk appetite and trends.


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Duration: 00:07:51
US small caps: looking beyond the near-term uncertainties
Mar 06, 2025

After rising in the wake of the US election, valuations of US small-cap stocks have marked a pause. Geoff Dailey, Head of US Equities, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris he expects the new US administration's focus on manufacturing in the US to boost market sentiment.


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Duration: 00:10:02
Navigating ESG investing with ETFs
Feb 28, 2025

Head of ETF Research Daniel Dornel discusses recent trends in investing through exchange-traded funds, including investors moving from ETFs with very selective ESG criteria to less selective ones to limit return deviations from the market index. He also tells Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, that demand for ‘active’ ETFs is picking up given they are an efficient way to integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into a portfolio.


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Duration: 00:07:53
Absolute return fixed income in an uncertain world
Feb 21, 2025

There is always uncertainty, particularly when it comes to the direction of bond markets in an uncertain world. James McAlevey, Head of Global Aggregate and Absolute Return explains the merits of absolute return fixed income investing in the current environment.


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Duration: 00:07:51
Broadening perspectives on the outlook for sustainability
Feb 13, 2025

The top-down view in the US on the need for a sustainable approach to business and government has shifted, but there are still signs that initiatives on greater diversity, equity and inclusion can persist. Alex tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris that talk of the end of sustainable investing is premature: New solutions will be developed and existing processes refined.


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Duration: 00:07:55
Watch out, concentration risk ahead
Feb 05, 2025

Recent stock market movements have focused attention on the risks of over allocating to an equity index dominated a small group of companies in the same sector. This is currently the case with the preponderance of 10 (tech) behemoths in the US S&P500. Raul Leote de Carvalho, Deputy Head of the Quant Research Group, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris put this concentration into context. They conclude that as long as market valuations rise in synch with profitability, the companies’ index dominance can be justified, but there's no margin for error. Raul suggests two ways of managing the related ri...

Duration: 00:06:37
Asia electrifies!
Jan 30, 2025

Demand for power in Asia could expand rapidly in the next few years as incomes rise, temperatures soar further, and calls for air quality improvements grow louder. Local phenomena including the rapid adoption of electric vehicles, electrifying India’s prolific two-wheelers and building out its urban metro networks look set to boost demand, Manish Bishnoi, Portfolio Manager for Asian environmental strategies at Impax Asset Management, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris. Equally, the rise of AI and the resulting structural change of power market dynamics will be felt across Asia.


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Duration: 00:12:16
Where to invest given all the unknowns
Jan 22, 2025

This year’s unknowns may look daunting. However, money still needs to be put to work. That will require strong convictions and portfolios constructed to weather whatever may happen. Here, Claire Mehu, Team Head for Balanced Solutions, and Andy Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, discuss the prospects for multi-asset portfolios.


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Duration: 00:08:44
Introducing private credit to a wider audience
Jan 14, 2025

Investing in private credit – loans provided by institutions other than banks – is gaining ground as regulatory changes create opportunities. Listen to this episode. Stephane Blanchoz, Head of Alternative Solutions, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of Investment Insights Centre, discuss the mature US market and the  opportunity-rich European market for private credit. They also go into the benefits of investing through an asset manager and the outlook for 2025.


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Where might markets go?
Jan 08, 2025

Will the expression “May you live in interesting times” apply to 2025? How many ‘tugs of war’ will investors face? Kicking off our 2025 podcast series, Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris revisit our investment outlook – Opportunities in a volatile world. They discuss US Treasury and corporate bonds, US, European and emerging market equities, and – a barbarous relic – gold.


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Duration: 00:06:53
Understanding Active ETFs
Dec 17, 2024

What are exchange-traded funds (ETFs)? How do they work and what are advantages do they offer? What's behind the new trend in Active ETFs?  Why are they becoming so popular? We have the answers! Listen to our last podcast of 2024 with Marie-Sophie Pastant, Head of the Portfolio Management team for ETF, Index and Synthetic Strategies, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre.


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Duration: 00:10:06
Discussing biodiversity loss, COP16, and our updated roadmap
Dec 09, 2024

Robert Alexandre Poujade, Biodiversity Lead, updates Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, on the latest developments, including takeaways from the recent multilateral COP16 meeting and the importance of heading off systemic risks such as even partial ecosystem collapse. Robert Alexandre also discusses how BNP Paribas Asset Management is taking biodiversity into account, the recent update of our biodiversity roadmap and next steps in the fight to tackle biodiversity loss.


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Duration: 00:07:43
What are the takeaways from the COP29 climate talks?
Dec 05, 2024

Reviewing the outcome of the recent UN Climate Summit, Climate Change Lead Thibaud Clisson tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, that amid the mixed results, there was progress on greater transparency in carbon markets and measures to tackle climate change fallout in developing countries. They also discuss hopes that next year’s COP conference can make progress on commitments to transitioning away from fossil fuels.


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Duration: 00:09:35
Is US environmental investing over? Not so fast
Nov 26, 2024

The arrival of a more protectionist US administration favouring deregulation and fossil fuels may be seen as hindering the energy transition and climate action. Ed Lees, Co-head of our Environmental Strategies group, explains why it is not  that simple. He talks to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris about the countervailing forces such as state-level – not federal – environmental standards, the hard-to-dispute economics of green energy, and the jobs that current policies have created.


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Duration: 00:10:04
Unpicking the results of the US election
Nov 20, 2024

What are the implications of Donald Trump re-entering the White House with his Republican party in control of both chambers of the US Congress? Listen to this Talking Heads podcast on these questions with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre.


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Duration: 00:07:28
Will US equities run much further, pause or stumble?
Nov 13, 2024

With the end of 2024 six weeks away and 2025 dawning with the promise of wide-ranging changes under a new US administration as well as further key interest rate cuts, what are the chances that US equities will continue to stand out? Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, and Christian Fay, Senior Portfolio Manager for US and Global Equities in Boston, discuss these and other questions in this week’s edition.


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Duration: 00:12:20
What are the implications of climate change for investors?
Nov 06, 2024

While debate may rage over the feasibility of the Paris Agreement goals on containing climate change, it is clear to many investors that economies are inevitably moving towards net zero emissions and many policymakers are legislating in the realisation that the transition is coming. Jakob Thomä, Research Director at the Inevitable Policy Response, tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, that investors are taking the view climate change is a risk factor to be tackled now. 


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Duration: 00:09:22
What's in the mix for yields of US Treasuries?
Oct 30, 2024

Cedric Scholtes, Head of Sovereign Bonds, Inflation & Rates talks with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, about the factors that have led to the recent rise in yields of US Treasuries and what may happen next.  At a time of multiple possible paths for US policy rates they discuss the state of the US labour market, how markets are evaluating future fiscal policy and the outlook for inflation. 


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Duration: 00:12:47
Systematic investing - Bigger, stronger, faster
Oct 22, 2024

Capturing drivers of stock performance via ‘factors’ such as value or low volatility and investing in them systematically continues to gain ground among investors. Carmine De Franco, Head of Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, explore the advantages of quantitative investing as a source of diverse elements of performance.


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Duration: 00:08:41
Assessing turning points in the equity outlook
Oct 16, 2024

Markets are focused on the resilience of the US economy, the scope for post-election policymaking in the US and recent developments in China when reviewing the near and medium-term outlook for developed market equities. Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, discuss our latest equity update.


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Duration: 00:10:20
Green and social bonds: a fully grown market
Oct 08, 2024

The market for green and social bonds has matured in recent years. It now boasts numerous  issuers from diverse sectors, a broad range of maturities and performance similar to that of traditional – corporate and government – bond markets, Portfolio Manager Arnaud-Guilhem Lamy to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris about the merits of green and social bonds.  


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Duration: 00:08:16
European small caps to outdo large caps
Oct 03, 2024

Recent interest rate cuts have added to a constellation that should allow European small-cap stocks to continue to outshine large caps, Portfolio Manager Mathieu Bernard tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris on this episode of our weekly podcast. The favourable setting includes earnings per share growth ahead of that of large caps, attractive valuations and potential for dividend growth.


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Duration: 00:08:06
Opportunities in US healthcare stocks
Sep 26, 2024

Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Jon Stephenson, Senior Portfolio Manager for the healthcare sector, and Daniel Morris, Chief Global Strategist. Jon talks about the opportunities he sees arising from healthcare innovation.


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Duration: 00:14:56
Our 2024 Thematics Barometer
Sep 20, 2024

How and why are investors using thematic investment strategies? Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Mark Buckley, Global Head of Investment Management with Coalition Greenwich, and Andrew Craig, Co-Head of the Investment Insights Centre.


To read the full report, visit our 2024 Thematics Barometer page.


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Duration: 00:10:34
Stewardship - Making our ESG policies actionable
Sep 18, 2024

Stewardship is the direct engagement between us, BNP Paribas Asset Management, as investors and the companies we invest in. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Rachel Crossley, Head of Stewardship for Europe within the Global Sustainability Centre at BNP Paribas Asset Management, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre.


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Duration: 00:10:23
Emerging market debt: Further to go after a strong run
Sep 10, 2024

Emerging market debt has had a strong run since the start of 2024 with positive performance across the universe of sovereign issuers. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Alaa Bushehri, Head of Emerging Market Debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre.


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Duration: 00:08:47
Inequality: why does it matter for investors?
Sep 04, 2024

Inequality may not be an obvious factor when assessing the prospects of a company. Yet, it is financially material, impacting productivity and well-being. As such, it can make a crucial contribution to a healthy society and stable economy. Equality Lead and ESG Analyst Sindhu Janakiram discusses these issues with Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris. Static categories of winners and losers stand in the way of equal opportunity and social mobility.


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Duration: 00:07:24
How to lock attractive interest rates for fixed periods
Aug 27, 2024

In this episode, CMO Pieter Oyens talks to Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, about fixed maturity plans which allow investors to lock in interest rates for three, five or seven years, thus capturing a regular flow of coupon payments. The plans, which can take the form of a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF), are timely in that short-term interest rates have now peaked, and leading central banks are beginning to lower them now that economies have plateaued and inflationary pressures in job markets are wearing off.


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Duration: 00:05:23
How to have an impact with investments
Aug 19, 2024

In this episode, Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris and Sustainability Integration Lead Berenice Lasfargues discuss the concept and practice of impact investing, which aims to generate positive social and environmental outcomes alongside financial returns.  They cover the three ingredients of impact investing – intentionality, additionality, and impact management and measurement – and talk about how investors can design and implement their impact strategies.


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Duration: 00:09:23
Caution after the market sell-off
Aug 07, 2024

Mark Richards, Head of Flexible and Absolute Return in our multi-asset team, and Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, discuss the recent market turmoil and what might come next. They start with the outlook for the US and whether there is justification for market concerns over an impending recession.


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Duration: 00:08:41
AI investment: the mega-caps ‘arms race’ is on
Jul 31, 2024

On this week’s podcast: Mega-cap technology giants have embarked on an ‘arms race’, spending billions of dollars, as they compete for a slice of the rapidly expanding market for artificial intelligence-related products and services.  Derek Glynn, Associate Portfolio Manager for our disruptive technology strategy, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris survey the AI landscape and tackle the questions that matter for investors.


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Duration: 00:12:40
Catch the gripping coupons of leveraged loans
Jul 24, 2024

How has the leveraged loans asset class weathered the vagaries of recent years, what can it offer income-oriented investors, and is this a good time to invest in these floating rate loans? These are some of the questions Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, and Javier Perez Diaz, Head of Leveraged Loans, tackle on this edition. Other topics include the segment’s diversification benefits,  its solid track record and its role as a hedge against inflation.

 

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Duration: 00:10:56
Progressing portfolios to net zero
Jul 16, 2024

How can investors implement strategies that align portfolios with the objective of limiting the effects of climate change while preserving or improving financial returns? Taking our recent handbook, Adjusting your approach to net zero and including our wider sustainability framework, Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centre, and Fabio Pinna, Portfolio Manager Systematic & Quantitative Investment, discuss ways to transition portfolios so that they contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.


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Duration: 00:13:24
Will election results upend climate policies?
Jul 09, 2024

With elections held in large economies such as India and the EU, and more to come elsewhere, particularly in the US, investors might be left wondering how changes of government and in the composition of parliaments would affect the ambitions of countries to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. They can be reassured for the most part, Alex Bernhardt, Global Head of Sustainability Research, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.


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Duration: 00:09:11
Natural capital: the multiple merits of managed sustainable forestry
Jul 02, 2024

In a world seeking to both preserve biodiversity and decarbonise, natural capital such as forests has a lot to offer. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Maxence Foucault, ESG Specialist and Private Assets Lead, and Celine Claudon, Chief Commercial Officer at BNPP Asset Management-owned IWC. They discuss with Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, the process of producing certified wood and its use as a recyclable alternative for plastic packaging and construction steel.


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The case for sovereign debt in multi-asset portfolios – and for gold
Jun 25, 2024

The scaling back of expectations for the number of interest rate cuts from the US Federal Reserve in 2024 has been a feature so far this year. As Mark Richards, Head of Flexible and Absolute Return, points out to Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, such action from the Fed could boost the performance of government bonds in multi-asset portfolios, Risks to such a scenario include doubts about the sustainability of high government budget deficits. The resulting search for alternative stores of value could well continue to favour gold.


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Taking an active look at trends in ETFs
Jun 18, 2024

In this edition of Talking Heads, Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, and Luca Pagni, Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) Portfolio Manager, discuss the success of fixed income exchange-traded funds, due, as he explains, to the fact that they offer investors access to a diversified and liquid portfolio of bonds at an attractive cost. The discussion also covers innovations including fixed maturity ETFs that combine the benefits of an ETF and the characteristics of a standalone bond with a set maturity date and declining interest-rate risk over time. Another topic is a more active approach to the management of these...

Duration: 00:09:38
Short maturity European high-yield bonds: a promising blend
Jun 11, 2024

With official interest rates in the eurozone having begun their descent and the economy bottoming out,  selected segments of the high-yield bond market remain, in our view, well orientated. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, and Stef Abelli, European High Yield Portfolio Manager.  Among the topics their discussion covers are the merits of a short duration approach and the sectors whose prospects appear favourable.


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Duration: 00:17:27
Springtime for the eurozone economy
Jun 04, 2024

As global growth improves, the outlook for the eurozone with its relatively high exposure to international demand is brightening, Mario Pietrunti, Senior Economist for the eurozone, talks to Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, about the economic outlook for the euro area in this Talking Heads podcast. Further out, challenges loom: weak European competitiveness, geopolitical headwinds, productivity issues, and restrictive central bank monetary policy.


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Adding a string to your bow with absolute return fixed income
May 28, 2024

With the bull market in bonds now behind us and investors looking for effective ways to position portfolios in fixed income, absolute return fixed income strategies offer potential. They seek to reap positive returns regardless of the direction of bond yields. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Jay Mistry, Senior Portfolio Manager on our absolute return fixed income team. He tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre, that appealing features of this approach also include its focus on capital preservation and benefiting from value differences between regions, countries and markets, even if yields are moving higher.   Duration: 00:12:40

US rate cuts would benefit frontier market bonds as well
May 21, 2024

The prospect of rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve later this year should allow frontier market bonds to build on what has been a months-long run of robust performance according to Guy Tossou, Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Market Frontier Debt.Guy tells Andrew Craig, co-Head of the Investment Insights Centre, that within the asset class, there are still frontier markets where his investment team continues to see value.


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Duration: 00:08:05
Scoring sovereign issuers of green bonds
May 14, 2024

A growing number of governments and state agencies is turning to the green bond market to fund measures aimed at helping countries to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change or tackle issues such as social inequality.Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Malika Takhtayeva, ESG analyst, and Ilan Tamsot, Portfolio Manager, as they discuss the sovereign green bond scoring methodology of BNP Paribas Asset Management and today’s green bond market challenges with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist.


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Duration: 00:11:00
Indian equities on a roll
May 07, 2024

Indian equities have seen three years of solid performance amid earnings growth and political continuity. In our view, conditions are in place for further gains as this sprawling economy of 1.44 billion consumers vies to take over from China’s as the world’s second largest. Jayesh Gandhi, Head of India Equities, tells Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, in this episode of Talking Heads that the upbeat outlook for the large services sector, further domestic growth and the reallocation of Indian assets towards equities should underpin the market. Potential risk factors to monitor include rises in energy prices and...

Duration: 00:08:21
The weighty impact of anti-obesity drugs, also for investors
Apr 30, 2024

Marketing and media campaigns and celebrity endorsements have boosted consumer demand for anti-obesity drugs, boosting the results of the makers of these weight loss pills. Get the full picture and what it means for food sector investing from Agne Rackauskaite, Portfolio Manager at Impax Asset Management, on this Talking Heads podcast with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist.


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Duration: 00:10:50
Getting Asia on board on climate and nature goals
Apr 23, 2024

With Asia accounting for half of global greenhouse gas emissions and coal responsible for almost 60% of power generation in the region, it is clear that to reach net zero targets globally, Asia needs to be on board. Jane Ho, Head of Stewardship Asia, and Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris, discuss the priorities for Asia when it comes to proxy voting, issuer engagement and policy advocacy.  


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Duration: 00:10:12
Exchange-traded funds: adding ESG into the mix
Apr 16, 2024

Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centre, talks to Lorraine Sereyjol-Garros, Head of ETF Business Development, about the prospects for further ‘heady growth’ in the trillion-dollar exchange-traded funds business. Current trends include the emergence of active ETFs.


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Duration: 00:12:17
Investing in global equities with a net zero tilt
Apr 09, 2024

Nadia Grant, Head of Global Equities, and Investment Specialist Shazaan Gaffoor explain the compelling rationale behind investing in stocks of companies progressing towards net zero emissions from their business. An active, diversification-minded approach to evaluating a company's efforts takes into account factors including actual or likely alignment with a future low-carbon economy as well as social risk and inequality.


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Duration: 00:07:28
Money market funds can still work when rates rise
Apr 03, 2024

On this Talking Heads podcast, Investment Specialist Thibault Malin argues that even in a scenario where interest rates will be cut, as is the consensus expectation for euro rates this year, a variable rate approach still makes sense when running money market funds. As Thibault explains to Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris, apart from some seasonal redemptions, he does not expect any significant switching out of money market funds into other assets.


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Duration: 00:14:34
US stocks: small is also beautiful
Mar 27, 2024

Small is still beautiful and that also applies to US small-capitalisation stocks, Geoff Dailey, Head of US Equities in our Boston office, tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centre, on this Talking Heads podcast. He notes small caps are attractively valued relative to large caps which have been experiencing several months of solid gains, led by a number of US tech giants.  


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Investing in water: from chips to lithium to PFAS
Mar 19, 2024

In this edition of our Talking Heads podcast, Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, talks to Justin Winter, Senior Portfolio Manager at Impax Asset Management, about sustainability-related investing in water, the reasons behind the inflows into this asset class and the outlook for water-related businesses in a segment that has been marked by innovation and a steady performance.


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Duration: 00:14:19
Offering tailored support and advice on sustainable investment solutions
Mar 12, 2024

Working out the best investment strategy en route to greater sustainability can be challenging as you strive to preserve financial returns while considering risks and goals around issues such as climate change and greater equality. On this Talking Heads podcast, Sophie Debehogne, Senior Client Solutions Manager, and Maurice Kraaijenbrink, Head of Portfolio Design on the Solutions team, set out their stall for Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris.


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Duration: 00:15:36
Is it ouch or aye for the environment as AI booms?
Mar 05, 2024

Markets are abuzz with the promise of artificial intelligence, but there also are concerns that the sprawl of related technology could sting via heavy demands on resources. Andrew Craig, Co-Head of the Investment Insights Centre, gets an update on this and other energy transition topics from Ed Lees, Co-Head of our Environmental Strategy Group.


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Looking to Turkey for some investing delight
Feb 26, 2024

Robust domestic demand, relatively low external debt and a now sound and simplified monetary policy strengthen the investment case for Turkish assets in 2024. On this Talking Heads podcast, Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, discusses Turkey’s prospects with Huseyin Akar at TEB Asset Management, a BNP Paribas Asset Management subsidiary.


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Duration: 00:09:43
Consider the ‘cushion’ of US investment-grade bonds
Feb 19, 2024

Investors with a penchant for yield and income should consider US investment-grade bonds, an asset class that stands to benefit from a healthy economic backdrop, lower interest rates, and robust demand. Yrieix de James, US Investment Grade Portfolio Manager, tells Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris on this week’s Talking Heads podcast why this is the case.  


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Duration: 00:13:19
A more nuanced look at Chinese equities
Feb 12, 2024

While developments in the Chinese economy are not rosy, they are not as bleak as some make them out to be; selected areas are still offering attractive opportunities. So David Choa, Head of Greater China Equities, tells Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist, on our weekly Talking Heads podcast.


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Duration: 00:08:46
It is ‘more of the same’ for European high-yield bonds
Feb 05, 2024

Building on a solid performance in 2023, European high-yield bonds stand to do well in 2024 given favourable macroeconomic and technical factors such as falling market interest rates and an excess of investor demand amid relatively limited supply, argues Olivier Monnoyeur, Global Head of High Yield, on this Talking Heads podcast.


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Duration: 00:11:49
Finding the best ideas in fixed income
Jan 29, 2024

The last three years have seen considerable market volatility caused by factors including the Covid pandemic, government subsidies, supply chain pressures, and runaway inflation. After all this, fixed income investors might be forgiven for feeling particularly challenged about how to square the latest trends and translate them into asset allocation. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast about absolute return fixed income investing with Portfolio Manager Abhijit Korde and Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist. Abhijit discusses three scenarios for the US economy – a Goldilocks-like soft landing benefiting riskier investments such as corporate bonds; stickier-than expected inflation resulting in a...

Duration: 00:17:41
The newly found appeal of bonds in longer-term asset allocations
Jan 22, 2024

The outlook for traditional 60-40 portfolios has improved now that bonds have reasserted their value as an investment asset following a loss of appeal amid years of ultra-low interest rates.Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Sergey Pergamentsev, Head of Structured Management, as he discusses longer-term multi-asset investing with Daniel Morris, Chief Market Strategist.


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Duration: 00:11:25
Presenting our new Global Sustainability Strategy 2023-2025
Jan 15, 2024

We published the first iteration of our Global Sustainability Strategy (GSS) in 2019. It laid the foundations for the implementation of sustainability across our organisation. In this podcast, Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability, presents our Global Sustainablity Strategy 2023-2025. She discusses with Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insights Centre,  how recent developments in sustainability-related investing are reflected in the evolution of our strategy.


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Duration: 00:16:00