The amount of insurance companies looking to increase risk exposure has shot upwards, with China A shares and private capital among the asset classes they want.
The amount of insurance companies looking to increase risk exposure has shot upwards, with China A shares and private capital among the asset classes they want.
Our panel discusses the rise of ESG investing post-financial crisis, the right level of scrutiny and developments in an ever-changing landscape. Chaired by Romil Patel in London.
Over the last ten years, ESG criteria have increasingly become part of the mainstream for many pension funds and asset managers. But Mirabaud Asset Management believes this is just the start of a longer journey.
Funds Europe asked a range of asset owners and asset managers what they are doing, as responsible investors, to tackle the biggest risk facing the world right now.
Investors are favouring risk aversion and seeing most value in safe haven assets, according to CFA UK's latest valuations index survey.
Despite fears of a fall in equity prices, investors must be careful not to throw their hand in too soon and risk missing out on potential benefits, warns Investec Asset Management.
The chief executive of Swiss asset manager GAM warned of potential fund outflows as it reported its first half results yesterday and revealed it had suspended an investment director.
Switzerland’s Fisch Asset Management is to hire five additional specialists as part of an expansion plan to make its business more international.
Without the key ingredient of industry collaboration, fund management back and middle offices will not be operationally efficient. Tim Steele looks at the industry’s record.
Just as UK income investors were told all is fine for the stability of dividends, fund manager Robin Geffen described risk in this sector as “astonishingly high”.
