Brazil has featured heavily in the international press in recent months, sadly for wrong reasons. Whether it’s political or corporate scandals, an economic downturn, which has taken many market participants by surprise due its severity, or the rampant Zika virus, currently being addressed. Nevertheless, for both domestic and foreign investors, at least for the political […]

By Dr. Maximilian Martin Two months ago, on December 12, 2015, 196 countries representing 97 percent of world GDP agreed on ambitious long-term carbon emissions reductions to contain global warming via the historical COP21 Paris Agreement. In the meantime, a couple of interesting data points have come in. The day before the climate deal, the […]

Impact Economy: Blog series on key opportunities in impact investing and frontier markets. Guest Post by Dr. Maximilian Martin In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes. —Sarah […]

Impact Economy: Part Two of a series on key opportunities in impact investing and frontier markets. Guest Post by Dr. Maximilian Martin Part Two: Seizing the Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity “Impact Investing is still a small part of the capital markets. But the returns on these investments are good enough to attract vastly larger amounts of capital. […]

Impact Economy: Blog series on key opportunities in impact investing and frontier markets. Guest Post by Dr. Maximilian Martin Series description Can capital markets drive profits and help make the world a better place? The answer is emphatically yes. Investing is shifting away from a two-dimensional approach based on risk and return to a three-dimensional approach based […]