Climate change was high on the agenda at the G7 summit, but investors were disappointed at the outcome, reports Melanie Boulton.
Climate change was high on the agenda at the G7 summit, but investors were disappointed at the outcome, reports Melanie Boulton.
Regulators have increased their focus on liquidity risk in debt funds. Austin Brady of Waystone explains that this prompted Waystone to increase its loans expertise in order to help clients successfully launch loan funds in Ireland or Luxembourg.
For emerging markets investors, allocating capital in a sustainable and impactful way can be challenging.
Cyber criminals can spend months inside a financial firm’s systems, diverting money. As Alex Rolandi reports, this is a concern to all funds industry actors, from custodians to private equity firms.
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched a climate bond fund range designed to facilitate the reduction of exposure to carbon emissions and fossil fuels in investors' portfolios.
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (Efama) has elected Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, CEO of fund manager Candriam, as its next president.
The cost of financial crime compliance across financial institutions – including asset managers, banks, and insurance firms – is expected to increase in 2021, according to research by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
Investors in UK-based multi-asset funds may be unwittingly exposed to a higher level of risk because of mislabelling, according to a recently released report that calls for a radical reset of the multi-asset market.
The GameStop saga earlier this year, which saw the company’s share price surge as activist retail investors tried to disrupt short-selling activity by hedge funds, has inspired more young people to take up investing for the first time.
The main issue facing the logistics and industrial sector, aside from climate change, is this lack of assets, according to Jonathan Holland, senior fund manager at LGIM Real Assets.
