Investment management giant Robeco has announced the appointment of Nick King as Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), in October, noting that as part of its 2021-2025 Strategy, Robeco is planning to expand its current investment capabilities with an ETF platform.
Companies and their investors face a new disclosure regime to support global efforts to protect nature and biodiversity.
It has been nearly a year since then Prime Minister Liz Truss’ ‘mini-Budget’ caused a collapse in gilt prices which wiped GBP500 million wiped from the UK’s defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and caused a crisis in confidence in the widespread use of liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies.
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) lacks transparency, offers an incomplete picture of trading efficacy and makes it hard to genuinely compare performance. This is the damning assessment of the asset management sector from consultancy Bfinance.
Alternative asset provider Preqin has published its Alternatives in Europe 2023 report. The report shows the combined assets under management (AUM) of European alternatives stood at EUR2.95 trillion as of September 2022. Of this, the UK and Western Europe both surpassed EUR 1 trillion of private capital AUM in 2022, though Preqin writes that the UK’s share has fallen in recent years to reach a new low of 44 per cent of the total at EUR1.04.
Man AHL has made its first foray into the ETF space with the launch of an active, quantitative and systematic trading strategy in partnership with the USD63 billion manager of managers American Beacon Advisors.
When Odey Asset Management asked investors to support a move of its oldest fund to a rival firm amid sexual misconduct allegations against founder Crispin Odey, the financial world was reminded of the more salacious reasons an asset manager might embark on a restructuring.
Fund managers are failing to provide appropriate liquidity management with many demonstrating a lack of care to investors. Gill Wadsworth talks to Patric Foley-Brickley, Managing Director, Apex FundRock UK, about how the industry can raise standards.
With the Bank of England (BoE) discussing the creation of a ‘digital pound’, a new survey released by CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has found limited understanding of and support for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) within the investment industry.
By Jeffrey Palma, head of multi-asset solutions and John Muth, macro
strategist at Cohen & Steers
