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.

“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. 

Asset managers are calling for stricter rules on market data pricing and licensing, calling it an “essential economic infrastructure” for market participants that ought to be regulated similarly to privatised railways and telecoms grids.

Boutique asset management think tank New City Initiative (NCI) is calling for the development of a new UK fund structure that could rival UCITS and AIFs, while decentralising fund management in the country and encouraging regional growth. 

SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has outlined the key challenges faced by compliance teams within financial markets as they navigate regulatory change, in a new white paper.

Industry group the World Federation of Exchanges has issued guidance to central counterparty clearinghouses (CCPs) over how to allocate non-credit losses.

Up to 90 per cent of active fund managers investing in China ‘A-shares’ may be outperforming their chosen index, according to members of the Inversis-sponsored International Advisory Board for Fund Selection (IAB).

Adapting to change is challenging at the best of times, but when the pace of change accelerates, it can disorient even the savviest investors. Long accustomed to gauging opportunities in the context of cycles, real estate investors now face a series of bewildering structural changes that will fundamentally transform how they operate in the future.

China’s response to the coronavirus crisis will only speed its ascent to become the world’s largest economy, argues Hong Kong asset manager Value Partners in its newly published whitepaper, outlining the case for investing in the country.