The giant UK pension scheme USS is divesting from selected tobacco, coal and weapons manufacturers in a move said to follow pressure from members.
The giant UK pension scheme USS is divesting from selected tobacco, coal and weapons manufacturers in a move said to follow pressure from members.
Germany’s DWS has said it will enforce stricter ESG investment criteria in its funds by using forward looking data to identify and engage issuers with high climate transition risks and those that violate international sustainability standards.
A majority of asset owners globally actively integrate ESG factors into their investment process, according to a survey.
JP Morgan Asset Management has partnered with the global funds network Calastone to increase the automated settlement of its money market funds.
M&G has bought UK pension and insurance mutual Royal London’s Ascentric ‘financial wrap’ platform business for an undisclosed price.
A number of indicators signal that financial markets are stabilising after the initial impact of the coronavirus crisis, says Beat Thoma, chief investment officer at Fisch Asset Management in Switzerland.
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.
Hugh Stacey, head of investor solutions at fund administrator IQ-EQ, answers questions on the future of ESG following the pandemic, and whether the world will ever return to a pre-Covid status quo.
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the use of private credit as an alternative to bank loans has grown exponentially. But what, asks Mark Latham, will be the sector’s prospects post-Covid?
Covid-19 has prompted fund managers to consider how the world will change – perhaps forever – in terms of globalisation and, notably, the response to climate change. By Alex Rolandi.
