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Hedge funds proved they were not immune to this summer’s market turmoil. But while some investment chiefs have refocused their strategies, the sector has not lost its allure, as Elisa Trovato reports

The transition to a more sustainable energy future and the mitigation of climate change are the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Energy transition is thus set to play a central role in investment decisions of the future, write Pictet’s Denis Schmidli and Christoph Butz

Portfolio managers must ensure that they are fully aware of the exposures they have at any given time and the ability of the portfolio to react independently in the eye of a storm, writes John Godden