Alex Bernhardt

Consequences of short-term investment

Equity managers are skewed to potentially sub-optimal short-term investment, a new study shows, with little understanding of opportunities missed, risks ignored and hidden costs.

Alex BernhardtAugust 23, 2017

The ‘Divest Invest’ premium

A sample Divest Invest portfolio outperformed under climate-change modelling, when compared with a more traditional allocation exposed to fossil fuels and lacking tilts towards climate solutions.

Alex BernhardtMarch 29, 2017

Why investors should de-carbonise

Regardless of moral and scientific arguments, the “risk of policy action” on climate change is enough reason for institutional investors to consider climate risk as having real impact on their portfolios. As an example investors at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Chicago Booth School of Business were told that investment-grade bonds in the coal sector […]

Amanda WhiteOctober 30, 2015