Systemic climate risk management - for institutional investors

AsianInvestor published an interview with Elske van de Burgt and Stefano Seung Jin Lee on How to decompose complex portfolios and returns.

InsuranceERM, Enterprise Risk Management Technology guide, interviewed Hens Steehouwer on insurance technology trends, concerns facing insurance companies, and innovation of ALM models.

Each year, CIO asks a varied group of respected chief investment officers and allocators which consultants and advisors have “done right by them” for the current markets.

Last month’s IPCC report should be a call to action for investors - an incentive to start by creating net zero aligned and climate resilient portfolios. Portfolios need to be adapted to extreme weather and a disorderly transition. It is wonderful to see that many of our clients have already started on this journey. However, thinking through the financial impacts of various climate risk scenarios and creating a net-zero roadmap may feel somewhat overwhelming.

Last month’s IPCC report should be a call to action for investors - an incentive to start by creating net zero aligned and climate resilient portfolios. Portfolios need to be adapted to extreme weather and a disorderly transition. It is wonderful to see that many of our clients have already started on this journey. However, thinking through the financial impacts of various climate risk scenarios and creating a net-zero roadmap may feel somewhat overwhelming.

Download materials if you missed our Q2 webinar - The return of inflation and the frequency domain toolkit for economic modeling by Hens Steehouwer and Patrick Tuijp.

The outlook is based on the Ortec Finance Economic Scenario Generator (ESG) and offers our perspective on recent developments in the economy and capital markets.

‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’, wrote the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The oft-quoted phrase came to mind when reading the influential reports by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) – a group of 91 central banks and supervisors that came with its second iteration of climate scenarios – and the Bank of England’s (BoE) second iteration of its Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenarios (CBES), both published this month.

It has been a busy few weeks here in Europe. From international diplomacy and ESG disclosure requirements and taxation, government leaders have been on the same page to combat the climate crisis and setting a minimum percentage for corporate taxation.