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New committee promotes global sustainability reporting standards

Few will argue with the newly hatched International Integrated Reporting Committee's (IIRC) assertion that the overconsumption of finite natural resources and the risk of...

Green real estate portal from Union Investment

The case for incorporating environmental and ethical criteria into investment research in mainstream equity and bond investing is well established, but the role of...

Hedge fund managers protect capital in volatile markets

Caution on behalf of hedge fund managers in volatile markets led to flat and marginally negative returns in the first half of the year,...

Pension funds to allocate to infrastructure and commodities

Pension fund assets allocated to infrastructure and commodities increased significantly between 2008 and 2009, although the aggregate number of allocations to alternatives remained the...

Low carbon boutique guns for ‘must-do’ RI market

Osmosis Investment Management is a company that exemplifies many current trends in the European fund management industry. The London-based low carbons solutions boutique is...

The end of country funds?

The strategic partnership announced today between the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and NYSE Euronext, which aims to strengthen Warsaw's position as a regional hub...

Turning Japanese

The problems being created in Europe by an ageing society are well documented. Could the solution to the problem be found in the world's...

Back to the core as competition heats up

Distance provides perspective, and so it is that the further we travel away from the 2008 global financial crisis, the better we are able...

No blues on the Danube

Anyone who has ever visited Budapest will know that the Danube flows not blue there, as promised in song, but muddy brown. A market...

SGSS links with US Bancorp to form alliance with global reach

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has just completed a commercial alliance with US Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) under the name of Global Securities Services...

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