Avoiding environmental, social and governance (ESG) tail risks helps generate alpha over a full market cycle – more so than tilting a portfolio towards top ESG ratings – and active management is crucial to the process.
Avoiding environmental, social and governance (ESG) tail risks helps generate alpha over a full market cycle – more so than tilting a portfolio towards top ESG ratings – and active management is crucial to the process.
Dutch fund manager Robeco has appointed Mark den Hollander as chief financial and risk officer, as well as member of the firm’s executive committee and statutory director.
Mark Gem, Chair of Clearstream Risk Committee and Member of the Executive Board at Clearstream, questions why it has become so challenging to fulfil compliance requirements around transparency and disclosure in the collective investments industry when these tasks have been managed efficiently for cash securities instruments for many years.
US fund giant BlackRock has launched a range of portfolios designed to help investors reach their financial goals through funds designed to match risk appetite.
Nicholas Pratt looks at the risks posed by the use of spreadsheets and how firms should approach the management of such a risk.
Despite massive outflows from absolute return strategies in recent years, there will continue to be a market for such funds in the future, Aviva Investors’ Euan Munro tells Mark Latham.
As risk averse investors turned their backs on equities in April, bond funds have become the main beneficiaries of this atmosphere of caution, according to research from London-based fintech Calastone.
UK savers looked to diversify risk throughout March, with global equity and mixed asset funds benefitting in the first quarter of the year.
Financial advisers are split on UK equity prospects over the next twelve months, but believe risky assets are back in favour, according to research by Netherlands-based Aegon.
With China and the US close to a trade deal and Beijing stepping up policy stimulus, we expect the Chinese economy to be on a more stable footing later this year, says Wei Yao, Chief China Economist at Societe Generale.
