The challenge The primary challenge for asset managers is to produce or acquire a set of long-run forecasts that can effectively inform investment decisions. Forecasts must be sufficiently detailed to capture key drivers of climate risk and opportunity. But also flexible enough to account for a range of potential scenarios and policy channels. Crucially, forecasts need to provide a clear connection between economic outputs and asset returns, achieved within a rigorous modelling framework.
Net Zero, Net Zero Transformation and Delayed Transition scenarios: Explored the varying severity and timing of key mitigation policies such as carbon pricing and energy investment. Covered different assumptions on the nature of investment and, in particular, the role of innovation, a crucial determinant of long-run economic output and asset returns
Oxford Economics also provides physical risk scenarios (such as the Climate Catastrophe scenario), estimating the economic and financial damages from intensifying concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the associated physical damages from global warming.
The solution For Schroders, our Global Climate Service met this challenge. It provided the framework to assess the implications of climate-related risks and opportunities by exploring both physical risks from climate change and transition risks from climate mitigation through its modelling of various economic scenarios.
Overview As global awareness of climate change continues to increase, investors are beginning to consider how climate risks and opportunities may affect long-term investment strategies and returns. Our client, Schroders, a large asset manager, is no exception, which is why they switched to our Global Climate Service as the economic foundation for their long-run asset class publication.
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Understanding climate-related implications on investment strategies
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The result Schroders used our climate change forecasts to make a more informed investment analysis better aligned with potential climate-related risks and opportunities, providing the necessary focus on economic outputs and asset returns. This culminated in their long-run asset performance publication, which enabled them to share this value with their clients and investors by coupling it with their own more asset-specific analysis.
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The solution cont. Our rigorous modelling and detailed, clear reporting were key benefits for Schroders versus their previous provider. In addition, our matching of assumptions (such as carbon pricing) with those of key public policy organisations like the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and International Energy Agency (IEA) provide consistency with scenarios used by central banks in their climate stress testing analysis. Again, this was an important requirement for Schroders, as it is for our other financial institution clients. Scenarios were generated using our Global Economic Model (GEM), which provides best-in-class economic forecasts through its ability to capture the diverse interactions between economies, energy systems and emissions, and the impacts of economy-wide decarbonisation. Moreover, the GEM’s direct modelling of linkages and passthrough to key assets such as bonds, equities and exchange rates provided a useful reference point for the client’s own proprietary financial modelling.
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We wanted to bring our climate assumptions and scenarios more in line with those used by central banks in their climate stress test analysis, so we have worked with Oxford Economics to apply their climate-macro model to our productivity, GDP and inflation forecasts. Oxford Economics has always been available to respond to our queries and provided insightful explanations for the impact of carbon pricing on macroeconomic activity in their model. We are very satisfied with their rigorous approach in modelling climate change and are happy to have collaborated with them.
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