Golding Capital Partners, a European independent asset managers for alternative investments, is combining all of its ESG functions into a new position filled by Christian Schütz, who will be the central liaison officer for implementing the company’s ambitious sustainability goals
The Royal Bank of Canada’s specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has launched its latest ESG-focused strategy. The BlueBay Total Return Diversified Credit ESG Fund enables fixed income investors to gain an exposure to the firms ‘best ideas’
A new study from bfinance, the independent investment consultancy, has revealed that institutional asset management fees have fallen significantly in a number of asset classes – particularly certain ESG or Impact strategy types.
Fund managers and investors remain split over how they integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their risk and investment processes, with industry participants citing a lack of clarity over data reliability, comparability and standardisation as the main challenge.
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company providing ESG solutions to the asset management industry, has now delivered its ESG scoring tools to CarVal Investors (CarVal), a global alternative investment manager, to support its risk scoring methodology.
Launched in September 2019, the Trium ESG Emissions Impact Fund uses a market neutral long/short investment strategy to target high-emitting companies in hard-to-abate sectors – such as energy, mining and chemicals – where successful transformations in the form of decarbonisation
The Trium Sustainable Innovators has launched the Leonie & Norman Institute, a new think tank focused on advocating ESG best practice within the asset management industry.
Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of UK hedge fund giant Marshall Wace, has donated GBP50 million to the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute to establish a new accelerator programme aimed at tackling future environmental, health,
By Ashmita Chhabra – With the United Nation’s COP26 summit approaching, the need to do more to address climate change is once again in focus. As a key financial services hub in Asia, Singapore has an important role in the development
By Armin P. Choksey – In the last few years, the world has witnessed significant progress in harmonising environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure frameworks. The launch of new initiatives globally shows that both investors and stakeholders recognise the value of streamlining ESG disclosures and the importance of
