As our Global High Yield, Global Investment Grade, Multi-Strategy and Absolute Return Credit strategies hit key milestones in June, we assess how they have performed since inception.

The global market for automotive sensors is worth more than $26bn – and that figure is expected to jump to $43bn by 2021. In the second instalment of our three-part series on future mobility, we explore how intelligent vehicles can improve safety, increase efficiency and cut emissions.

From a distance, it is easy to conclude that Egypt is an arid environment for investors. Being only 0.13% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the country is easily dismissed given its questionable democracy, high rate of inflation, recent currency devaluation and twin deficits.

Charles Dickens’ famous lines set the scene for a world of latent volatility, where contradictory extremes loom as equally likely realities and the slightest change in the political winds could send events either way.

• How has Hermes Unconstrained Credit been constructed to adapt to the current environment

Change is afoot in the global automotive industry. Some of the world’s biggest economies have promised to ban cars that run without electric power by 2040 – and others are expected to follow suit. In a three-part series, we explore one of our impact investment themes – future mobility – by

The leveraged loan market is catching up with the bond market: fuelled by demand for collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), it has expanded to $1tn and is now within $100bn of the US high-yield market. In this issue of Spectrum, we explain how leveraged loans can benefit a diversified portfolio of

European equities has been an asset class of many false dawns. Tim Crockford, Lead Portfolio Manager of the Hermes Europe ex-UK Equity Fund, discusses what is different this time, in particular looking at how he sees the market and what opportunities there are out there.

Despite ongoing disintermediation in the European direct-lending market, strong origination agreements with banks continue to be vital access high-quality loans – particularly in the mid-market space. Here we explain why.

Natural gas is often referred to as a bridge to the low-carbon economy. By this it is meant that gas is a mechanism through which tailpipe emissions may be reduced, while maintaining a similar pathway of socioeconomic progress that is dependent on the use of fossil fuels. A convenient prospect for