China bonds go mainstream
For decades, overseas investing in China was considered a complex and tightly-controlled affair - something for tomorrow not today observes HSBC. However a series of reforms in recent years, the banks says, more avenues have opened up for foreign investors. Chinese bonds and equities are being included in major global indices. Last year alone, the bank continues, international investors bought more than USD81 billion of Chinese bonds, making the country the largest recipient
Energy - digital technology futures and pricing
Energy companies need to work out what drives their customers, build business models to match, but be flexible enough to adapt to their evolving expectations, warns EY. Energy companies, EY's Benoit Laclau says, are used to charging customers to recover the costs of building, owning and operating assets that generate and deliver electricity. It is a simple model, he observes, which has meant they haven't had to think about serving their customers in a particularly sophisticat
Zurich measures environmental impact
The investment landscape in the UK is changing with the increased influence of ESG teams at institutional investors which are looking in far closer detail at the environmental impact of portfolio companies. Linked to this has been the growth in green bonds in Europe where major insurance companies, like Zurich have taken a lead. BBVA is forecasting issuance of USD 220 billion in 2019 for the green bond market. The interest has grown since we first covered this topic with Ever