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Guide to ESG Investing
Even through the downturn in early 2020, you may have noticed clients still considering investments in line with their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) values. Our four-step guide provides a framework for discussing sustainable investing as part of your financial planning process.
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Ask the PMs: Outlook and Positioning in Our Asset Allocation Portfolios
Senior Portfolio Manager/Co-Head of Target Risk Strategies Dan McNeela and Portfolio Manager, Active Asset Allocation, Michelle Ward will talk about positioning in our Asset Allocation series and their outlook for key asset classes.
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Ask the PM: Dividend Strategies
Join Portfolio Manager George Metrou, who will discuss where he's seeing opportunities in the current market and how the economic slowdown has affected how he manages our Dividend portfolios today.
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Beyond the Index – Equities: Finding Long-term Growth Amid Current Volatility
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Barings’ Global Head of Equities, Dr. Ghadir Cooper, discusses the impacts of COVID-19, the opportunity for companies capitalizing on structural growth trends from technology to demographics, and the integral role of ESG in fundamental analysis.
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Video game industry goes for the win
As a kid growing up in Bettendorf, Iowa, Capital Group equity analyst Nathan Meyer had two passions: sports and video games. “There wasn’t much else to do in Bettendorf,” he says of the small, rural town about 170 miles west of Chicago.
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Streaming Income - Social Impact: Changing Lives with Coffee
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On this special episode, we hear from Cemal Ezel, CEO & Founder of Change Please, a U.K. social enterprise that employs and trains members of the homeless community to become coffee baristas, and ultimately helps them to rebuild their lives.
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Cluster Cities: A Chinese Experiment in the Future of Urbanisation
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China’s success in growing city clusters of previously unimaginable size is dependent on three key factors: continued rural-to-urban migration, planning that spans disparate administrative areas, and massive infrastructure investment.
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Streaming Income - Financing the Internet of Things: Live from Barings 360
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In this episode of Streaming Income recorded live on stage at the Barings 360 Private Markets Conference, Dr. Christopher Smart discusses his latest white paper.
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Streaming Income - Is There Style Drift in Middle Market Lending?
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Barings’ Ian Fowler weighs in on the supply/demand dynamics in the direct lending space and explains why looking at the middle market as one cohesive universe can be misleading.