Market Matters | Data Assets & Alpha Group: Asset Allocation amid Climate Risks, with Fidelity Intl Macroeconomist
Jan 30, 2024
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Anna Stupnytska, Global Macro Economist at Fidelity International, discusses the impact of climate change on growth, inflation, and interest rates. She explores the trade-off between transition and physical risks, the implications for asset prices and strategic asset allocation, and distinguishing 'signal from noise' in ESG data.
Climate change scenarios have a negative impact on global GDP growth, leading to higher inflation and interest rates with varying effects across regions and asset classes.
Fidelity International's macroeconomic modeling incorporates climate change to stress test capital market assumptions, revealing negative impacts on long-term risk and return profiles, with equities being more sensitive than fixed income.
Deep dives
Climate Change Scenarios and Their Impact on Markets
Climate change scenarios, as defined by the Network for Greening the Financial System, have a negative impact on global GDP growth and lead to higher inflation and interest rates. However, the effects vary across regions and asset classes. Positive progress is seen in climate policies, particularly in the European Union with increased carbon pricing. The NJFS scenarios include orderly and disorderly transitions, hot house world, and too little, too late, each having different risks and outcomes. Incorporating climate change into investment decisions is crucial to avoid misguided return expectations and systemic financial disruptions.
Stress Testing Capital Market Assumptions for Climate Change
Fidelity International's macroeconomic modeling incorporates climate change to stress test their capital market assumptions. The overall impact is negative on long-term risk and return profiles, with equities showing greater sensitivity than fixed income. Developed markets bear the burden of transition risks, leading to higher equity drawdown risks. Emerging markets face severe physical risks due to insufficient policies. Climate-aware factors, such as carbon pricing, may result in inflation spikes, making it difficult for central banks to achieve their inflation targets.
Data, Scenarios, and the Importance of Being Prepared
Analyzing climate change scenarios involves tracking corporate action, policy progress, and technological advancements through data. While there are positive developments in climate policies and finance, more awareness and integration of climate risks in capital market assumptions is needed. The uncertainty around the speed of transition and effectiveness of policies makes the modeling complex. However, being prepared by understanding and incorporating climate risks can help investors build more resilient portfolios and minimize the surprises associated with climate change.
In this episode we hear from Anna Stupnytska, Global Macro Economist at Fidelity International. Anna discusses the impact of Climate Change on growth, inflation and interest rates under various policy scenarios, the trade-off between nearer-term ‘transition risks’ and longer-term ‘physical risks’, what all this means for asset prices and strategic asset allocation, and distinguishing ‘signal from noise’ across the breadth of ESG data. Anna is in discussion with Eloise Goulder, Head of the Global Data Assets & Alpha Group.
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