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As economies and investment markets have grown and matured around the globe, Asia has grown in lockstep to occupy its own unique position at what are traditionally competing considerations of sustainability and finance. Taken as a whole, Asia is home to almost two-thirds of the world’s population. Two of the region’s countries, China and India, join the United States as the three highest energy-consuming countries.

The investment industry data aggregator, S&P Global, recently published a comprehensive summary of its data collection and analysis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected different facets of the investment markets through the first three quarters of 2020. The summary also provides a picture of what investors can expect as the year winds down and pandemic-influenced trends either continue or evolve into 2021 and beyond.

As economies and investment markets have grown and matured around the globe, Asia has grown in lockstep to occupy its own unique position at what are traditionally competing considerations of sustainability and finance. Taken as a whole, Asia is home to almost two-thirds of the world’s population.

The price of crude oil at the end of the first quarter of 2020 has fallen below US$25.00 per barrel. Consumers will receive a temporary benefit from rock-bottom gasoline prices, but the reality is worldwide economic activity is too interconnected for the crude oil price collapse to generate universal long-term benefits.

Bain & Company published its “Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report 2020” near the end of the first calendar quarter. The report does not reflect a detailed look at market dislocations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but looks into deeper substantive elements of the PE market and the trends that will likely characterize the market regardless of the pandemic’s effects.

By one measure, March 2020 introduced a new reality to the world’s financial markets. Roughly six weeks into the new year, investors woke to news of the COVID- 19 virus and its resulting supply chain disruptions, factory closures, regional quarantines, and manufacturing employee furloughs.

Investments into renewable energy systems are on an exponential growth track and show no signs of abatement as the world prepares to enter a new decade.

In the late 1990’s, Wall Street helped musician, David Bowie, to realize a payday of more than $55 million when it monetized the artist’s catalog of recorded music with “Bowie Bonds” that gave bondholders interest payments connected to revenues from that music.

The typical hedge fund manager is not in the habit of proselytizing about and searching for the gloom and doom scenarios that can wipe out investment gains. Robert Gibbins, however, is not a typical hedge fund manager.

Investors can hardly pick up a recent financial publication without seeing a headline or two about inverted yield curves. This is understandable, as financial reporters earn their salaries by writing about unusual or newsworthy events.

The Federal Reserve plays an outsize role in driving global economic expansion and contraction. How the U.S. dollar emerged as a de-facto global currency. Trade tensions, tariffs, and cracks in the dollar’s dominance and overall global liquidity. Hedge portfolio risks with gold.