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We asked our investment collective for their views on longer-term inflationary risks. What’s clear is that this environment will most likely suit nimble investors that can make active, high conviction decisions as they navigate the road ahead.

We believe that blended Emerging Market debt strategies offer distinct advantages in finding a balance between opportunity, liquidity and volatility. Furthermore, our approach towards liquidity has given us the flexibility to be highly nimble in positioning the Fund quickly and effectively if market events change.

The Global Climate Bond team use a framework to identify those issuers that have clear goals in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement. Our focus is to seek issuers that can make significant reductions to the emissions they produce, which means we invest in some of the higher-emitting sectors. Engagement then becomes key.

Andrew Lake, Head of Fixed Income, focuses on the moves in the US Treasury market

We have reached the halfway point of 2021, and it is a good time to take stock of where we are and where we might be going. As the recently departed Donald Rumsfeld said “there are known unknowns and also unknown unknowns”.

The Mirabaud Convertible Bonds Europe Fund has a fully integrated ESG approach as part of its process. It has recently been awarded the SRI label by the French Ministry of Finance. Despite some recent headwinds, especially in areas like the ‘stay at home’ names, a number of positive factors still remain to make the European Convertibles asset class an opportunity for investors seeking to diversify risk.

London, 28 June 2021 – Mirabaud Asset Management has further strengthened its responsible and sustainable investment credentials with the launch of the Mirabaud Global Climate Bond Fund.

Global greenhouse gas emissions continued to grow for the third consecutive year in 2019, reaching a record high of 52.4 GtCO2e[1]

Investors are increasingly looking to support global climate action through their bond allocations, but there are several routes to choose - green bonds, hybrid climate portfolios or pure traditional bond strategies.

“We must now agree on a binding review mechanism under international law, so that this century can credibly be called a century of decarbonisation” – Angela Merkel

The energy transition is the pathway towards transformation from fossil-based to renewable, zero-carbon energy sources in order to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement and Government targets by 2050. At its heart is the need to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions to limit climate change.

Dan Moreno, Head of Emerging Market Debt, provides latest insight into the market environment and positioning of the Mirabaud – Global Emerging Market Bond strategy, which takes a blended approach between hard and local currency bonds.

We believe that Income investors need to focus as much on Dividend Growth as they do on Dividend yields, as the combination of the two determine what total income will be paid out over time. Durability of dividend growth is supported by our multi thematic approach.

Geneva, 23 June 2021 – Mirabaud Asset Management working alongside Miami-based EXAN Group, has structured the acquisition of an office campus occupied by an investment grade tenant in Warren, New Jersey. EXAN advised on the acquisition of the asset by a Luxembourg-based institutional commercial real estate partnership structured by Mirabaud Asset Management on behalf of its international clientele. The two-building office campus was acquired for $150.25 million from Philadelphia based Rubenstein Partners and New Jersey based Vision Real Estate Partners.

Nicolas Cremieux outlines recent positioning activity for the Mirabaud – Sustainable Convertibles Global Fund.

David Kneale looks at the possible impact of inflation on UK PLC. UK consumer price inflation has recently risen to 1.5% from around 0.5%[1].

It has been a while since my last missive. I must admit, I left it for a few weeks, hoping that there would be some eventful news to comment on. The logical move would have been for investors to take profits after a very strong Q1, feeling full of self-congratulation that the market was over-extended, in bubble territory and due a nice pullback.

In the age of "ecological homo economicus", economic growth and protecting the planet will undoubtedly come to represent two sides of the same coin. We explain how, by applying a systems perspective to finance in the coronavirus pandemic.