Capital Research and Management Company

Push for plastic waste credits at UN treaty talks

...In Indonesia, Danone collaborated with waste management company Reciki to establish five recycling facilities around the country that were owned and operated by the local partner....

April 26, 2024

Blackstone Group LP

Dividends outstrip cash flows at Blackstone’s flagship property fund

...Large private property trusts similar to Breit managed by investment groups, including Starwood Capital and Brookfield, also reported cash flows falling short of distributions in 2023, filings show....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

Investment research

Sorry, rebundling research isn’t going to work

...energise the UK’s capital markets....

April 15, 2024

Mifid

FCA proposes to reverse Mifid rules on investment research

...Mifid II rules came into force in 2018 and led to the separation of fees charged by investment banks to asset management clients for trading execution and research....

April 10, 2024

Exchange traded funds

JPMorgan AM surges to dominance in Europe active ETF market

...“Recent news has been flooded with announcements from major players such as Robeco, BlackRock’s iShares, Eurizon Capital, Ark Invest and others, all either launching or planning to introduce active ETFs...

April 23, 2024

Exchange traded funds

Flows to European ESG exchange traded funds halve in first quarter

...European investor allocations to environmental, social and governance exchange traded funds slowed down in the first quarter of 2024 as the sector endures an “existential crisis”, Morningstar research shows...

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Jane Street Capital

Jane Street loses bid for restraining order against Millennium Management

...Millennium, which was founded in 1989 by Izzy Englander, has grown to become one of the most prominent multi-manager hedge funds in the world, with about $63bn in assets under management and average returns...

April 19, 2024

Climate change

Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic

...“It’s one of the industries where we’re seeing oil and gas companies focus because they know demand for plastics is only expected to grow in the long term,” said Kirti Vasta, a research analyst at BloombergNEF...

April 22, 2024

FT Asset Management

Mifid 2 already

...But the knock-on effects were often less than ideal, including a huge shrinkage of coverage for small and medium-sized companies....

April 15, 2024

Special ReportEurope’s Climate Leaders

Europe’s Climate Leaders 2024: interactive listing

...research team based at University College Dublin....

April 25, 2024

Thames Water

Hedge fund Elliott Management scoops up Thames Water bonds

...US hedge fund Elliott Management has been buying the bonds of troubled British utility company Thames Water, in a bet that markets have grown too pessimistic over the size of losses that investors may have...

April 22, 2024

Alice Ross

Time for investors to turn up the heat on climate governance

...It also looks as if it makes more sense to invest in companies in developed markets, which tend to have higher management scores and are less likely to be state-owned, which results in a lower management...

March 29, 2024

xAI

Sequoia commits to backing Musk’s xAI start-up

...Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with the company’s chief executive Sam Altman and others. He left OpenAI’s board in 2018 following disagreements with Altman on the direction of research....

April 26, 2024

Markets InsightMakhtar Diop

Better risk data should boost confidence in emerging markets

..., where more capital is needed....

April 25, 2024

The Big Read

The ambitions of China’s BYD stretch well beyond electric vehicles

...The company’s vertically integrated structure, economies of scale and ballooning research and development plans mark a stark challenge to companies in the west, analysts say....

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Climate Capital Live

The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business

Exchange traded funds

UK’s ‘green’ fund regime looks set to hit all index trackers

...“There is also the question of when [holdings] have improved, what are you going to do with these companies? It may become a non-label.”...

April 22, 2024

Hedge funds

Share price surge helps largest hedge funds to biggest profits on record

...Brad Amiee, director and head of research at LCH Investments, said the stock market’s strong performance was a contributory factor for some of the biggest funds....

January 22, 2024

Utilities

Investors fear Thames Water contagion, Barclays says

...A failure at Thames Water could spread to other water companies and other essential infrastructure, according to investors surveyed by Barclays Research....

April 23, 2024

LexAmundi

Amundi heads west in bid to be Europe’s BlackRock Premium

...This structure helps circumvent US regulations when globally significant banks, such as Crédit Agricole, own fund management companies. One can see the attraction for Amundi....

April 18, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

The hidden power of index providers

...And decisions made by index providers are increasingly shaping capital allocation....

April 9, 2024

Liontrust

Liontrust hit with £4bn in outflows from UK funds

...Funds that invest in UK companies have had 34 straight months of outflows, according to research by investment bank Peel Hunt....

April 17, 2024

Exchange traded funds

Synthetic convertible ETF aims at Magnificent Seven bond problem

...Now that rates are off zero, it makes sense to use fixed income again for risk management and income,” he added. “This [approach used by CANQ] does not cap your upside.”...

February 26, 2024

Moral Money

The World Bank’s private capital push Premium

...They’ve also pledged to put pressure on businesses they invest in, and on the asset management companies that invest much of NZAOA members’ money, to clean up their own act....

April 19, 2024

Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

The eyes in the sky fighting climate change, one methane leak at a time

...It noticed further emissions nearby, which turned out to be an oil and gas facility. The company contacted SRON, the Dutch space research institute, which verified the findings using an ESA satellite....

April 26, 2024

Equities

Small stocks, big problems

...But, in reality, there is far more research and information on smaller US companies than ever before....

April 17, 2024

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