18/06/2021 Economy & Markets Biden agenda: tackling income inequality and its potential i... The election of President Joe Biden has led to a turn in US government policy. This paper explores income and wealth inequality in the United States and...
14/06/2021 Research Shifts & Narratives #7 - Opening the Pandora’s box of social... The Covid-19 crisis can be considered a turning point for social issues: it has put global socio-economic inequalities in the spotlight and made them...
7/06/2021 Research Inequality: what is at stake (2/4) - Pro-Piketty and Anti-Pi... No one is disputing that Piketty’s books are ground-breaking, that his research and his team’s research are fundamental, or that their databases and reports...
7/06/2021 Research Inequality: what is at stake (1/4) - Globalisation, growth, ... With the misdeeds of globalisation, the rise in inequalities and the resulting perception of injustice have been subjects that have fuelled many debates...
25/05/2021 Research Stakeholders in the Just Transition - N°1 Integrating worker... The notion of “Just Transition” stems from the belief that a transition to a cleaner, more sustainable economy must be conducted in a way that is fair...
13/01/2021 Portfolio Allocation Responsible Investing and Stock Allocation We analyze the portfolio choices of approximately 913,000 active participants in employee saving plans in France.
15/12/2020 Investment Insights Sustainability-linked bonds: nascent opportunities for ESG i... Since the creation of green bonds, many new labels have emerged, including social bonds, sustainability bonds, and recently transition bonds, not to mention...
18/11/2020 Investment Insights Social bonds: financing the recovery and long-term inclusive... With its triple impact on education, income and health, the Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated existing inequalities, both among and within countries.
3/06/2020 Research The Coronavirus and ESG Investing, the emergence of the Soci... Amundi’s Quantitative Research team has been studying the evolution of ESG investing across asset classes and geographies for the past several years.
13/01/2020 Research ESG Investing in Recent Years: New Insights from Old Challen... This research is an update of the study that we published last year (Bennani et al., 2018) and that explored the impact of ESG investing
6/09/2018 Economy & Markets 10 years after Lehman: A reality check for the future It has been 10 years since the collapse of Lehman marked the beginning of the Great Recession, which threw the global economy into its deepest economic...
17/07/2018 Research The living wage: towards better industry practices The concept of living wage goes back to the early twentieth century, with the creation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1919.
21/10/2014 Sustainable Finance Do Social Responsibility Screens Really Matter? A Comparison... On average, socially responsible (SR) funds have showed statistically similar performances to traditional funds. Does this mean SR screens make a negligible...
15/01/2012 Portfolio Allocation Social responsibility and mean-variance portfolio selection This paper measures the trade-off between financial efficiency and SRI in the traditional mean-variance optimization