The first ever practical blueprint for “net zero investing” has been issued by Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), to help investors maximise the contribution they make in tackling climate change.
The investment industry needs to emulate the aircraft industry in the way it learns from past mistakes, in order to successfully pilot investors through the Covid-19 crisis, according to new research from the Thinking Ahead Institute.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management is bidding to address a lack of bond funds on the market that deliver on both ESG and returns, with the launch of two new sustainable fixed income funds.
Asset managers say it is time to embrace riskier fixed-income assets again, with emerging markets bonds becoming an increasingly attractive option for investors as optimism wanes over a quick economic recovery in developed markets.
Concern is growing over a likely spike in defaults among so-called ‘zombie’ companies that have stayed afloat during the coronavirus pandemic by relying on government stimulus and increasing their debt loads, but will struggle to keep servicing loans as government schemes roll back.
Over a third of all shares on the UK’s FTSE 100 and 250 indices are now owned by North American asset managers, as the popularity of low-cost passive index funds and ETFs has surged.
Central banks are lagging other major institutional and public sector investors with their integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, according to a new survey by BNY Mellon and OMFIF.
Fulcrum Asset Management has launched a new global equity fund which aims to invest in companies that are on-track to meet the Paris Agreement’s target of keeping the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.
Thirty banks including Barclays, BBVA, Citi, Credit Suisse, Santander and UBS, were assessed on how they have integrated ESG factors into their commercial practices, and none were judged to be ‘outstanding’, according to a new benchmark report by audit, accounting, and consulting firm Mazars.
Fixed income managers have seen a hectic first half of the year in 2020. In the US, a typical year’s worth of new issues was printed in the space of just four months, as the onset of the pandemic forced companies to take urgent action to shore up their finances.
“Climate change and housing affordability are not disconnected. You can mitigate both issues through greater density of housing in less vulnerable areas,” says Oscar Vasquez, COO of Encore Capital Management, in a new whitepaper from SEI.
There are significant barriers for the impact investing world to overcome if the strategy is to gain substantial investment from institutional players, according to a new whitepaper from CAMRADATA on impact investing.
