UK investors withdrew £2.5 billion from equity funds in April, following redemptions of £5 billion in the first quarter.
UK investors withdrew £2.5 billion from equity funds in April, following redemptions of £5 billion in the first quarter.
Do you remember how Value at Risk (VaR) – the risk-management metric – came in for much criticism after the financial crisis of 2008? It was once compared to an airbag that works all the time except when you have a car accident.
The industry accepts the need for more rigour in ESG fund reporting, but the work will be pointless if investors don’t understand the end result. Nicholas Pratt reports.
ESG events that have captured attention in the past year, and the evolution of attitudes to ESG-based returns, are two topics our expert panellists discuss.
Global Diversified Growth funds were heavily searched by UK institutions last year and remain a top-three asset class in searches, Mithursha Kesavan finds.
Momentum Global Investment Management (MGIM) has launched the Momentum GF Global Sustainable Equity Fund.
Investors withdrew £836 million from equity funds in April, just beating the previous high set in January this year, as investors sought safe havens for their capital.
The war in Ukraine combined with wider economic crises led to a record poor performance of funds worldwide in Q1, particularly in Europe, according to research from BMO Global Asset Management.
Dividend payouts in the UK were £14.2 billion in the first quarter, a 24.9% year-on-year fall on a headline basis, but with lower one-off special dividends and the departure of mining giant BHP from the UK stock market taken into account, the adjusted underlying total jumped 12.2% to £13.3 billion.
Equity ESG was the asset class that recorded the strongest inflows in the first quarter of 2022, at £8.6 billion, as investors pulled £10.8 billion out of non-ESG equities, new research showed.
