BMO Global Asset Management has launched an Asian equity strategy to its suite of responsible and sustainable funds.
BMO Global Asset Management has launched an Asian equity strategy to its suite of responsible and sustainable funds.
HSBC Global Asset Management and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have announced the third closing of a green bond fund which has raised $474 million (€431.97 million) to support climate risk-mitigation investments across emerging markets.
Allocations to emerging market bonds were surging before the Covid-19 crisis, analysis of fixed income markets shows.
Geneva-based Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has launched an impact equity fund focusing on emerging markets.
Green bond issuance in emerging markets saw a sharp increase in 2019, rising to US$52 billion – a 21% increase, according to a joint report published by Amundi and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Christopher Smart, chief global strategist & head of the Barings Investment Institute, analyses the long-term effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on emerging markets.
Poland’s stock exchange last year initiated a responsible investment drive and Grzegorz Kaliszuk of AgioFunds illustrates the journey ahead for the Polish ESG mutual funds market.
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is looking to appoint a specialist China equity manager to oversee between £200 million and £300 million (US$249 million and $373 million) in assets.
Ashmore Group, a specialist emerging markets investor, saw assets decline by nearly a quarter due to the Covid-19 pandemic – but argues there is now a good buying opportunity in emerging market bonds and equities.
William Blair Investment Management has launched an emerging market fund investing in a broad range of hard-currency bonds.
