The UK’s largest asset manager, Legal & General Investment Management, is set to divest from four companies over insufficient action on climate risk.
A group of asset managers are calling on companies with business links to Myanmar to take action against ongoing human rights violations in the country.
“As an investment case, bitcoin is very early stage and offers big potential, as its long-term correlation is low compared to traditional asset classes.” In the following article Michael Zbinden, CIO, and Dr Hartmut Neff (pictured, above left with Zbinden), Portfolio Manager, with the Crypto Finance Group, offer an introduction to the considerations around investing in crypto assets.
By Jacolene Otto, Maitland’s head of Private Equity & Real Estate, based in Luxembourg.
Industry bodies are calling on regulators to curb ongoing rises in fees charged by providers of financial benchmarks, which are driving up asset managers’ costs.
Investors in high-yield bonds may be more exposed to the risk of a climate transition than those in other debt and equity assets, according to new research from MSCI.
By Vic Leverett, head of Alternative Investments at Russell Investments – Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), private debt has received increased attention and growth for a variety of reasons. These have included the ongoing low interest rate environment, elevated equity valuations, the diversification benefits and higher yield potential offered by private debt. The case for private debt appears to be a strong for investors with long-term investment horizons and higher risk tolerances.
Investors have criticised the UK Budget for missing opportunities to prioritise the green economic transition, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government’s spending plans for the year ahead.
By Shuen Chan, head of ESG at Legal & General Investment Management Real Assets.
This report reveals the drivers behind the increasing acceptance by institutional investors of digital assets as a 'real' asset class and what players in the industry are doing to support investor appetite and grow the market sustainably.
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Institutional investors in the US are increasingly planning to adopt ESG in their portfolios, swayed by recent evidence of sustainable investments’ outperformance.
Financial services firms have planned to move an estimated GBP1.3 trillion in assets from the UK into the EU since the Brexit referendum, according to the latest estimates from EY’s Financial Services Brexit Tracker.
