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Q1 2024 Report
In this quarter's report, we shine a spotlight on our recent engagements with BP and Ryanair and show how our approach to energy transition plans works in practice to help identify sources of both risk and opportunity.
Q4 2023 Report
After a year dominated by talk of generative AI, it’s easy to forget the paramount importance of people when it comes to productivity. We engaged with Grifols, a Spanish bio-pharma company, about high staff turnover.
Happy, clever people
Advanced economies face low and falling productivity. To solve this problem, companies need to innovate, and many have turned to technological solutions. But the best companies understand that an engaged, creative and knowledgeable workforce is the key.
Swimming naked
July 2022: It is hard to overstate how far free and unlimited central bank liquidity has rewired the financial system. As central bankers extract themselves from the monetary rabbit hole they have burrowed their way into, the damage to traditional portfolios is likely to be considerable. This tightening of monetary policy is happening because inflation has returned – with a vengeance.
Responsible Investment Report
In our latest quarterly report, Research Associate Alexander Jones explores the framework we have designed to help us achieve a holistic understanding of fixed income risk. Elsewhere we present Ruffer's participation in the CDP Non-Disclosure Campaign, as well as stewardship activities from the fourth quarter of 2021.
Fixing the framework for fixed income
Earlier this year, a Ryanair passenger flight heading from Athens to Vilnius was alerted to an onboard bomb threat whilst flying over Belarusian airspace. It was subsequently ordered to make an emergency landing in Minsk, escorted by a fighter jet. However, the true motive behind the forced grounding soon became clear, as political activist Roman Protasevich was swiftly removed from the plane and detained by the Belarusian government.
Mind over matter?
April 2021: Andrew van Biljon and Lauren French offer their insights into the world of behavioural economics. What do these theories say about us as decision makers? What are their shortcomings? Can behavioural science make us better investors?
A bias to belief
February 2021: Bethany McLean joins us to discuss the tension between rational markets and emotional investors, what separates the visionary leader from the fraudster and how a bias to belief affects our decision-making.
What could possibly go wrong?
January 2021: We all know that 2020 was an incredible, and terrible, year. The pandemic caused the worst recession for centuries, along with an appalling death toll and suffering. Meanwhile financial assets pushed ever upwards, surfing a wave of liquidity meant to counteract the impact of the pandemic.
Tailings dams
We have been mining the world’s natural resources for thousands of years. Yet the global demand for these is only likely to increase in the future, given their role in supporting economic and social progress and enabling innovations and technologies that are needed to address climate change.
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London
Ruffer LLP
80 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL
Paris
Ruffer S.A.
103 boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris, France
New York
Ruffer LLC
300 Park Avenue
New York NY 10022
Edinburgh
Ruffer LLP
31 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh EH2 4ET