Powered by MOMENTUM MEDIA
lawyers weekly logo
Advertisement

Analysis

Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

13 April 2021 • By Hans-Christoph Hirt • 1 min read

Stewardship during a crisis: Lessons from the pandemic

At the start of 2020, few of us could have envisaged the dramatic changes to our daily lives wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic. As governments scram...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Why Bill Gates and Richard Branson see opportunity in SPACs

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) or “blank cheque companies” have become the ultimate hype beast of Wall Street and can be likened to...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Small-cap benefits outweigh risks

With small caps (as shown by the MSCI World Small Cap index) outperforming the broader equity market (represented by MSCI World) over the long-term, i...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

The private equity alternative

In an environment of low-interest rates and elevated valuations, investors are looking for alternative ways to generate much-needed returns and to ade...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Inflation, rising rates and their impact on infrastructure

Following on from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, central banks and governments have aggressively stimulated their economies. The likely result of this...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Inflation? The question we should be asking ourselves is what will the policy response be?

In previous columns, I highlighted our outlook for 2021 was based predominantly around the “good recovery” scenario that sees economies reopening...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Echoes of debt crises past

While 2020 had many characteristics unique to those living through it, like all human experience, we can find many echoes from the past. In those echo...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

The rise of responsible fixed-income investing 

2020 was a pivotal year for responsible investing, especially in fixed income. For more than three decades, Calvert has viewed responsible investin...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

Housing affordability in Australia 

If there is one positive to take away from the past year, it is the importance of what we do together. 2020 revealed that the adverse impacts of a pan...

READ MORE
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt

This time it’s different

Over the past few months there has been a sharp repricing of bonds, which some investors may have found unsettling. However we don’t believe there i...

READ MORE