A House of Lords committee has raised “significant concerns” over the role of UK regulators, their ability to operate with genuine independence from government and how they are held to account.
The complexities of assessing performance from responsible investment strategies have been laid bare after Morningstar’s ESG indices delivered a mixed bag in 2023.
Investment trusts are the latest sector of the financial services industry to come under fire for failing to cater adequately for responsible investors.
Ever since Robert Maxwell was found to have treated the Mirror Group pension fund as his own personal piggy bank, the government has insisted that schemes appoint member nominated trustees (MNTs) to improve scheme governance and ensure such fraud never happens again.
Investor demand for natural capital – timber, agriculture and nature-based solutions – has outpaced interest in real estate for the first time.
They have underperformed their developed counterparts for over a decade but if fund manager predictions are anything to go by, emerging markets look set to return to favour this year.
Alternative data provider, Preqin, has published its Preqin Global Report 2024: Hedge Funds, which finds that some segments of the hedge fund market have seen slower growth, while, overall, net fund outflows have persisted in 2023.
2023 has proven another healthy year for the UK’s defined benefit (DB) pension schemes. The latest figures from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) report an overall funding ratio for the index is still 145.7 per cent, up from 133.7 per cent this time last year, which while mostly attributable to rising gilt yields, still gives trustees more room to manoeuvre than they have had for years in terms of planning their endgames.
Alternatives data provider, Preqin has published its Fundraising for first-time managers: A guide to raising capital report.
Sustainable infrastructure is proving an attractive asset class for long-term investors with an eye on the green transition. According to figures from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Renewable Energy Investment Tracker, in the first six months of 2023, investors channelled USD358 billion of new capital to renewable energy projects.
