T. Rowe Price Deploys Custom Climate Risk Models to Safeguard $165 Billion Emerging Markets Portfolio Against Supercharged El Niño

T. Rowe Price is using custom climate-risk assessment models developed with Johns Hopkins University to protect its $165 billion emerging markets portfolio as forecasters warn of an exceptionally powerful El Niño cycle expected to peak by year-end 2026. The collaboratively built teleconnection framework maps historical precipitation and climate patterns during El Niño events, layering hydrological and soil-moisture analysis with macroeconomic transmission channels to identify sovereign risks across 12 priority emerging economies.