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Climate change will be a defining issue of the 21st century, affecting societies, economies, and markets. At Bridgewater, our starting point for addressing climate change is who we are—investors with a fundamental, systematic, and diversified approach to understanding the world and translating that understanding into insights and portfolio solutions to help our clients achieve their financial and sustainability goals. This makes climate a crucial ingredient for Bridgewater’s central mission. Our CEO and Executive Committee have made sustainable investing, with climate a central component, a strategic priority across the company, and climate-related considerations are integrated across our business: in our portfolio solutions for clients with sustainability goals, in how we seek to beat markets in our alpha portfolios, in our portfolio risk controls process, in our approach to stewardship, in our suite of tools for partnering with clients and analyzing their portfolios, and in our reporting.

Helene Glotzer will join Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors as a Partner Director and Jason Warner will join as an Outside Director. Helene has been part of the Bridgewater community since 2007, and Jason brings of 20 years of experience in software development, enterprise technology, executive leadership, and innovative thinking as a technologist, CTO, and business leader in the software industry.

The secular investment landscape looks more like decades past than the last 20 years: the interest rate lever is back in play, inflation matters again, acute deleveraging is behind us, and the government is playing a more active economic role—all amid geopolitical tensions. At the same time, dynamics like AI and climate change are likely to shape the world in unprecedented ways.

Our culture is our competitive edge. Read more about the evolution of our idea meritocracy.

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Maximizing the benefits of geographic diversification can be highly beneficial for portfolios. But doing so can be difficult because many economies are closely linked to US conditions, making their markets highly correlated to US assets investors already own. In this report, we walk through some of the markets we see as most diversifying.

As a part of our Corporate Social Responsibility efforts, Bridgewater is committed to minimizing the environmental impact of our operations. Read more about our goals and the steps we are taking to reach them.

Co-Chief Investment Officer Karen Karniol-Tambour has been recognized among 100 women at the highest levels of leadership in US Finance.

Achieving the world’s ambitious climate goals will require rapidly scaling economically viable technologies, while also innovating, incentivizing, and investing in less mature technologies that are not yet cost-competitive.

As most major economies are seeing their working age populations stagnate or shrink, sub-Saharan Africa’s is growing rapidly and projected to be larger than China’s in about a decade. If the region can also increase its productivity growth, it will begin to emerge out of poverty and gradually become relevant to global investors.