White papers

Discover how our Impact Investing team navigates economic shifts and political uncertainty to help drive sustainable change. In our sixth annual Impact Report, we reveal our strategies, methodologies, and results in investing in low-carbon solutions and smart infrastructure.

Over the past decade, private credit has grown from a $400bn niche industry into a $1.6tr market that competes with more traditional asset classes for significant investor allocations.

What is the intersection between geopolitics and climate change? The latest white paper by our Chief Economist Reto Cueni and Senior ESG Analyst Veronika Stolbova explores how these factors shape international relations, industrial policies, and the global power balance.

Our latest papers explore the interplay between financial acumen, sustainability, and cognitive dimensions shaping ESG recommendations.

A thorough consideration of resources, and their pricing, is a key element to a sound investment strategy. Future-proof investing requires an understanding of the world we operate in today and will inherit tomorrow. Resources, quite literally, shape that world.

The wave of alarming headlines can sometimes seem to dwarf the social challenges the world faces. But Impact investing addresses a wide array of important issues that may be a bit more difficult to grasp. The latest Impact Report for Vontobel’s Global Impact Equities strategy provides case studies to highlight the steps towards positive change.

The environmental crisis is undeniable, and the world needs an urgent plan. Investment firms have an important role to play. In the latest Impact Report for Vontobel’s Global Environmental Change strategy, the Impact Investing team assesses how its holdings have helped mitigate sustainability challenges, but also delves a bit deeper: find an overview of the sustainable-finance landscape and an in-depth examination of the regulatory environment into selected key developments.

Favored investment approaches, investor motivation, public and private markets, measuring impact, where the main opportunities and challenges lie.

Last year's bond market disappointments now seem far behind us and investors tell us they are once again bullish on fixed income.