@PatAlvarezB chalks it up to these factors: Natural gas prices in Europe may remain elevated heading into the winter amid a tightening supply scenario and below-average storage levels, subdued LNG and pipeline imports.
2/ The run-up in CO2 prices are also a factor: As CO2 prices increase, electric generators are incentivized to operate cleaner burning #gas plants at the expense of coal, which helps to drive gas demand higher and consequently may provide structural support for higher gas prices.
3/ Will the run-up in #gas prices be transitory or enduring? What about #oil? Is the rise in #carbon prices structural?
2/ Slow research has its place, but when you spend months (or longer) writing a 50+ page report, there’s a lot of potential for stranded insight.
What’s worse, there’s a possible shot-selection problem: you could spend months researching a topic that nobody cares about.
3/ At Bloomberg Intelligence, most of us have a daily publishing cadence. We still write the equivalent of 50-page research reports over the course of a couple of months — just imagine publishing 1-2 pages at a time.
2. / Do you think companies striving to be carbon neutral will perform better over time?
Here's the performance of the basket since year-end 2017. While the BI Carbon-Neutral Theme Basket outperformed the MSCI ACWI in 1Q, it has trailed (slightly) over a longer-term basis.
3./ Will all companies eventually need a carbon target to satisfy #ESG investors?
No real surprise here -- our carbon neutral theme basket has grown over time as more and more companies pledge to become carbon neutral. We currently have 179 companies in the group.