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Macquarie AM raises largest European infra fund

Nick Fitzpatrick -

Macquarie Asset Management has raised the industry’s largest European infrastructure fund to date, according to the firm, following a more than €8 billion fund...

Active ETFs see record inflows during 2023

Funds Europe -

Actively managed ETF assets reached a “new milestone” recently, according to industry data. The products hit US$700.4 billion of assets under management (AUM) globally, according...

UK corporates face ESG and pension progress lag, study shows

Piyasi Mitra -

A study by Cardano, the investment management and advisory firm, has revealed that chief financial officers (CFOs) of UK businesses are "unclear and unprepared...

Pension funds to push on with ESG after 2022’s “temporary setback”

Nick Fitzpatrick -

ESG underperformance last year is seen by pension funds as a “temporary setback”, and they intend to pursue investment strategies that seek environmental and...

Investors tapped bond ETFs in October due to rate expectations

Nick Fitzpatrick -

Expectations of lower interest rates drove inflows into bond ETFs during October – a month that otherwise saw net redemptions in bond funds, as...

Private equity investors maintain appetite for asset class

Nick Fitzpatrick -

Over 40% of institutional investors said they would continue to allocate more than 10% of their portfolios to private equity, despite lower returns which...

Oskar Geldof joins Aviva Investors

Funds Europe -

Aviva Investors has appointed Oskar Geldof formerly of Fidelity International, as head of business in the Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg (BeNELux) region. Based in Amsterdam Geldof...

Standard Chartered partners with FundsDLT for blockchain-based transfer agency services

Piyasi Mitra -

Blockchain platform FundsDLT has partnered with Standard Chartered to provide the banking group with cloud and blockchain-based transfer agency SaaS for asset managers. By leveraging FundsDLT's...

Matching footprints: Are ETF issuers and administrators aligned on need for wide geo coverage?

Nick Fitzpatrick -

Providing a wide geographical reach is important to ETF issuers, fund administrators and authorised participants (APs) alike, Funds Europe research shows. Some 83% of fund-issuer...

Financial adviser boss warns “backward-looking” ESG movement could harm wealth

Nick Fitzpatrick -

News that oil, coal and natural gas will play a less dominant role in global energy is being used to warn investors that “anti-ESG”...

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