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Insights for professional investors
This year’s drought catastrophe shows how endangered the global water supply and food security are. About 1 million of the world’s 8 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Climate change is the top issue of the 21st century. Many companies are turning to green bonds to finance sustainable change. Consequently, these are experiencing a huge boom. We talked to AllianceBernstein and Eurizon about current trends and green bonds in portfolios.
Note: The following information is for professional investors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Investing in green bonds generates not only the usual benefits of fixed income investments, but also brings a significant plus for the community obtained by financing, for instance, transport and energy transition-related projects. Furthermore, considering the constant improvements in terms of transparency, investors can now quantify the underlying benefits of this kind of investment with measurable and objective metrics.
Green bonds have gained a reputation for providing better downside mitigation than their conventional peers. But in this year’s market downturn, green bonds’ defensive performance patterns were mixed. Markus Peters discusses what this means for investors and outlines how the asset class has evolved over the past few years.
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