This year’s Emerging Markets Debt (EMD) performance has shown once more how integrating ESG factors alongside traditional macroeconomic metrics can be a better way to assess EM creditworthiness.
Giving consideration to a government’s performance on long-term issues related to Environment, Social and Governance factors can help an investor assess the relative preparedness of an EM economy to weather a storm like the Covid19 pandemic as well as set off on the path to a sustainable economic recovery.
In the second part Allianz Global Investors share recent developments towards an innovative way to expand their ESG framework, by using a new AI tool that can produce a higher-frequency investment signal to assess a country’s path towards an environmentally sustainable growth path.
