Artificial intelligence (AI) is inescapable, and the investment management industry has chosen to embrace it wholeheartedly.
North American pension funds could see returns decimated by 50 per cent if worst case scenario climate change forecasts materialise by 2040, industry research reveals.
Aviva Investors has added a private debt offering to its suite of long-term asset funds (LTAF).
The Church Investors Group (CIG), a coalition worth GBP26 billion, is calling on asset managers to take greater account of faith when formulating investment strategies, arguing they should not have to“make do with investment solutions which are not designed with Christian faith in mind”.
Asset owners should abandon traditional approaches to evaluating investment manager performance in favour of a scorecard approach that encompasses net zero targets, the CFA Institute has said.
The majority of asset owners do not consider diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) when selecting investment managers despite claiming that gender and ethnic heterogeneity is instrumental in decision making, research finds.
A global coalition of investors representing approximately USD2.5 trillion in assets under management is urging governments to “take ambitious policy and regulatory action to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss”.
The UK’s transition to net zero needs an estimated GBP50 billion every year between 2030 and 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee; amounts that mean the economy to transform on an unprecedented scale.
Schroders, Man Group and Resonance have committed GBP550 million through impact funds which the government says: “Will directly tackle the most acute housing crisis in living memory”.
The UK’s first collective defined contribution (CDC) scheme received the green light this week with the launch of the Royal Mail Collective Pension Plan (RMCPP).
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