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Professors Robert Engle and Johannes Stroebel's joint research on hedging climate change news is spotlighted

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Exceprt from the Harvard Law blog -- "In our proposed approach, rather than buying a security that directly pays off in the event of a future climate disaster, we construct portfolios that have short-term returns that hedge news about climate change over the holding period. By hedging, period by period, the innovations in news about long-run climate change, an investor can ultimately hedge her long-run exposure to climate risk."

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