Institutional investors still grapple to secure reliable and consistent data to support their sustainable investment strategies, particularly as they venture into private markets, research reveals.
Just over a year after the incoming Donald Trump administration in the US kicked the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative into the long grass, the coalition is back offering a revised platform on which the industry can discuss climate related investing.
They have spent a decade in the shadow of their large cap counterparts, but 2026 looks like the year smaller companies stage a comeback.
New research from Carne Group (Carne) reveals that fund managers are entering 2026 with renewed confidence about growth and fundraising, even as institutional investors grow more concerned about valuation-related conflicts of interest and systemic risk across private markets.
The world’s largest pension funds will favour a total portfolio approach (TPA) rather than focusing on individual asset classes, research from the Thinking Ahead Institute reveals.
USD 84 billion drained from global sustainable funds in 2025, with investors spooked by geopolitical tensions, anti-ESG sentiment, regulatory uncertainty and mixed performance, according to figures from Morningstar Sustainalytics.
A monthly column on the global crypto markets and ETF/ETP flows, brought to you by CoinDesk Indices, Trackinsight and Institutional Asset Manager’s sister title, ETF Express.
Renown Capital, a new growth equity firm with Moore Capital pedigree, has stepped out to specialise in investing in technological solutions for the energy sector. James McIntyre and Archie Soames are the firm’s co-founders.
As debates about an AI bubble rage and with notable industry figures including BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink predicting “big failures” in the tech sector, so fund managers that are increasingly reliant on the technology start to question the stability of their providers.
At the end of 2025, Octopus Capital – the real assets arm of Octopus Investments – announced the construction of two retirement living sites, which it says will help “tackle the UK’s chronic undersupply of specialist housing for older people”.
