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Insights

21 October 2024

Arabella Duckworth

Senior Credit Analyst

Eyob Abay

Associate Analyst

No Autumn chills for Global Investment Grade Corporate fundamentals

IG valuations remain tight, and the market remains focused on whether this is justified by fundamentals. Our bottom-up company analysis shows profitability remains strong and leverage modest.
17 October 2024

Sharon Vieten

Senior analyst, Fixed Income

European utilities: prepared for the spending storm

Despite huge growth in demand, costs squeezes and supply constraints around raw materials and capacity are limiting expected returns in renewables development.
17 October 2024

Natalia Luna

Senior Thematic Investment Analyst, Global Research

Power hungry AI - investment implications in the era of energy transition

Understanding the options for power provision and assessing the investment opportunities resulting from AI’s thirst for energy.
Read time - 2 min
16 October 2024

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – October 2024

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
8 October 2024

The climate risk ‘hot potato’– which sector will be left with burnt fingers?

A secure and consistent supply of critical minerals is fundamental to the energy transition and to achieving net-zero, but demand is putting pressure on supply chains and costs, and risks polarising sentiment around the energy transition.
7 October 2024

Slow-speed crash? Problems for the European auto sector pile up

Healthy cash balances built up over the past three years will be tested as firms attempt to weather the four-pronged oncoming storm of labour relations, EV uptake, emissions regulations and China.
30 September 2024

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – September 2024

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
27 September 2024

Gregory Turnbull Schwartz

Senior Analyst, Fixed Income

Boeing bonds bound to bounce back?

With $60 billion of outstanding corporate bonds, the business is among the largest non-financial IG issuers, and it wants to reduce its leverage. But with that being unlikely anytime soon, investors have a decision to make.
23 September 2024

Albertine Pegrum-Haram

Climate Change Analyst

Claire Robbs

CFA, Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit Research

Robert Whitworth

CFA, Equity Analyst, Fundamental Research Team

Can the demand for critical minerals be met responsibly?

A secure and consistent supply of critical minerals is fundamental to the energy transition and to achieving net-zero, but demand is putting pressure on supply chains and costs, and risks polarising sentiment around the energy transition.
Read time - 7 min