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Heads turned in the investment world early in September, when BlackRock published a 15 page think piece on ‘Adapting Portfolios to Climate Change’. In fact, it could be a turning point. If the world’s largest asset manager is taking climate change seriously, other mainstream firms, especially in the US, now have little excuse for ignoring it. Ewen Cameron Watt, senior director at the BlackRock Investment Institute, spoke to Jon Hay about why all investors need to be climate-aware.
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A former Bank of America Merrill Lynch vice president has joined Nomura's MTN team.
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The distinction of being the widest constituent in the Markit iTraxx Europe is clearly one that most companies would prefer not to have. Yet Glencore has held this dubious honour since before the last index roll in March. It had a challenger in fellow miner Anglo American, but Anglo’s downgrade to junk and consequent removal from the investment grade index left the field open to the Swiss firm.
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Michael Reuther, head of Commerzbank’s corporates and markets unit, told GlobalCapital that the banking industry needed to see the “endgame, the final state” of its capital requirements, with an end to the new overlapping layers of extra capital requirements.
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GlobalCapital’s Sam Kerr takes a deep dive on the history that put the Fed on its current path and examines what record low rates are doing to domestic and international credit markets
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Deutsche Bank is at real risk of failing to pay coupons on its additional tier one instruments, as a potential $14bn US RMBS settlement threatens to erase the bank's available distributable items (ADIs). Outstanding DB AT1 securities reacted accordingly last Friday, shooting nearly 200bp wider.