A Few White Papers
you are currently viewing::Physical AI is changing manufacturing - here's what the era of intelligent robotics looks likeSeptember 9, 2025-Physical AI is driving a new phase of industrial automation, offering a powerful solution to manufacturing challenges like rising costs, labour shortages,and shifting customer demands.
Early adopters like Amazon and Foxconn are already seeing significant benefits, including improved efficiency, faster delivery times, and the creation of new skilled jobs. Automation helped shape the First Industrial Revolution – and it continues to evolve in today's Fourth. While automation has long been part of the manufacturing landscape, recent advances in artificial intelligence, vision systems and robotics hardware are enabling a new generation of more intelligent and adaptable machines. A new white paper from the World Economic Forum, Physical AI: Powering the New Age of Industrial Operations, explores how these developments are expanding the role of robotics - not just to boost efficiency, but to support greater flexibility and resilience on the factory floor. Source: World Economic Forum |
Hidden in Plain Sight: Physical Risk in Asset Owners' Portfolios
November 3, 2025-Corporate asset locations are a critical source of financial-risk intelligence for investors. More so when coupled with powerful overlays related to physical climate risk.
MSCI's new study, conducted in collaboration with Swiss Re Risk Data Solutions, analyzed more than 11,000 companies and 500,000 physical assets underpinning the listed-equity portfolios of 18 leading asset owners, representing USD 4 trillion in AUM.
New ICI Paper Outlines Key Considerations for ETF Share Class
October 6, 2025-The Investment Company Institute (ICI) has published a new paper exploring the operational considerations for launching an ETF share class within an existing mutual fund portfolio. The expected SEC relief for funds with both ETF and mutual fund share classes provides an opportunity to broaden investor choice, promote efficiency and economies of scale, and enhance competition in the asset management sector.
Economic development, carbon emissions and climate policies
September 8, 2025-If economic activity is considered the primary driver of climate change through emissions of carbon dioxide, then supporting economic growth and fighting emissions would appear to be at odds. However, the process of economic development may itself foster complementarity between GDP growth and emissions reductions.
