Despite its unpopularity over the past decade, global equity income has recently become a promising target for investors. But are the best funds getting the flows?
Operations
Tokenised funds: ‘As easy as clicking the buy button’
Alts manager Hamilton Lane chose the ‘easy’ route to tokenisation, partnering with another business to open up access to its flagship private assets fund.
Robeco ESG head: ‘Ideally, my role would cease to exist’
Robeco’s head of sustainability integration, Masja Zandbergen, explains why she wants to make her own role redundant and how she polices investment research.
Almost Rated: Shaykevich’s sidekick makes mark in EM bonds
The bond manager has 33 months on his track record and has been a steady outperformer over the past two years.
UK regulator warns over alts risks to retail clients
Selectors expect ever-greater access to alts, but regulators are aware that marketing to retail clients poses different risks to institutional investors.
Mapped: Fund label rules around the world
From Sydney to Sao Paolo and Paris to Washington, regulators are wrestling with how ESG funds should be labelled. Consensus? Not so much.
ARK shutters ETF after eight months in first fund closure
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest will shut a fund for the first time after its Transparency exchange-traded fund failed to attract significant assets, holding just $12m of assets at closure.
ShareAction calls on financial services to disclose ethnicity pay gaps
None of the FTSE 100 financial services companies report ethnicity pay gaps, leading ShareAction to lobby for change at 16 AGMs this year alone.
Too responsible to be ‘sustainable’: A guide to ESG fund name changes
Citywire Amplify discovers 200 funds adopting ESG-related names, such as ‘sustainable’ and ‘impact’, with some even switching between the two. Why?