The S in ESG has become a growing focus for the asset manager’s corporate engagement with social factors increasingly crucial drivers of innovation.
Operations
‘If you’re waiting for committees to make decisions, you’re woefully out of touch’
Citywire Amplify sits down with Ninety One sustainability chief Nazmeera Moola to find out how perfecting a chocolate torte helped her bake sustainability into the business.
Janus’s new CEO helped AB’s shares surge 200%. Can he repeat the trick?
Nelson Peltz is backing Janus Henderson’s new CEO to succeed. But can Ali Dibadj stem outflows and boost the share price at the asset manager?
Capital Group cuts fees on 18 funds
Twelve of the funds affected are fixed income funds, with the asset manager promising investors $20m in cost savings.
Why this sustainability head has become a fund manager (and more should too)
ESG pioneer Sasja Beslik is changing focus from Danish pensions to Japanese SMEs, and wants other sustainability experts to enter active management.
Why the Finnish fund industry doesn’t consider defence stocks as ESG
While several Swedish firms have changed their defence stocks stance, Finnish firms are critical of the case for the sector despite the country’s imminent Nato application.
CEO Summit: Encourage transition but acknowledge the cost
Exclusion is not enough and asset managers must help companies manage their way through the transition to net zero, say fund group chiefs, but change comes at a price.
Investor’s Notes: Business culture is fine, but don’t deny the hierarchies
It sounds great to have a participative culture, but it is often the exception.
M&G searches for global CEO as veteran Foley announces retirement
M&G’s veteran chief executive John Foley, who oversaw the merger of the division with Prudential’s UK investment business and subsequent spin-off from its parent, is to retire.