Renewable energy firms have outpaced fossil fuel companies over the past decade, including during the recent pandemic crisis, generating higher returns and lower volatility. New research from Imperial College Business School shows that despite the advantages, institutional investors are failing to reap the rewards of renewables.
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London fixed income specialist ProMeritum Investment Management has made positive returns in each of the five years since its foundation, by finding “idiosyncratic opportunities” that arise from political and corporate disruptions in developing countries’ debt markets.
US bond fund managers were at the epicentre of dramatic institutional investor redemptions in fixed income in the first quarter of 2020, according to new research from investment management platform eVestment.
Large investment firms are tapping into natural language processing to build in-house automated solutions, according to a report published by text analytics company FinText.
Russian specialist Balchug Capital has navigated a path through the pandemic crisis by believing in the fundamental value of its “best ideas” emerging markets-focused equities positions, according to founder David Amaryan.
Outflows from UCITS were at the same level at the height of recent pandemic volatility in March as they were during the global financial crisis in October 2008, according to a report published by European Fund and Asset Management Association EFAMA.
Analysing a company’s ESG profile may be the key when it comes to sorting the ‘angels’ from the ‘zombies’ among the expanding class of recently-downgraded junk bonds, says Truvalue Labs in a new report examining this year’s cohort of ‘Fallen Angels’.
The European Commission’s decision to team with Blackrock as it looks at ways to boost the growth of green finance is a move that is ‘long overdue’, says Sussex Partners CIO Jim Neumann.
In March, London asset manager IBIS Capital announced that the merger of its Nasdaq-listed acquisition company, EdtechX Holdings, and a growing Chinese education technology group, Meten, had finally completed.
British investors showed more enthusiasm for ESG funds over the last three years than any other category of investment fund, according to a special edition of the Fund Flow Index from Calastone, a global funds network.
The 2008 financial crisis revealed many corporate governance deficiencies at alternative funds. Twelve years on, Covid-19 is causing a different set of challenges. Bill Prew, CEO of independent depositary INDOS Financial, assesses whether governance practices in the industry have improved and if investors’ interests are now being better safeguarded.
