Sustainable assets under management (AUM) are set to reach USD35 trillion by 2030 despite rising anti-ESG sentiment, research from Bloomberg Intelligence reveals.
US tech stocks were the success story of 2024 with the Magnificent Seven companies – Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla – returning over 60 per cent last year and contributing to a more than 20 per cent increase in the S&P 500.
The government has announced plans to release GBP160 billion in “trapped surpluses” held by the UK’s defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.
Private credit has enjoyed considerable attention of late with asset managers espousing the various benefits of investing from diversification, liquidity premium and decent yields.
New research issued by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center reviews the use of distributed ledger technology to tokenise financial and real-world assets.
The European outpost of the Aussie-owned financial services companies solution provider firm, Bravura Solutions, is seeing a sea-change in their clients’ demands as the asset management sector evolves.
The gender pay gap across UK financial services boardrooms decreased five percentage points between 2019 and 2023, from 30 per cent to 25 per cent, according to the latest EY European Financial Services Boardroom Monitor, which incorporates new analysis on the most recently reported non-executive (non-exec) director remuneration.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is inescapable, and the investment management industry has chosen to embrace it wholeheartedly.
Solomon Global writes that 2024 was a pivotal year for the precious metal and previews what’s ahead in 2025.
Dovile Silenskyte, Director, Digital Assets Research, WisdomTree, writes that as of late November 2024, the total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies reached an impressive USD3.4 trillion, placing it among the largest asset classes globally.
