Investment sector starts to address biodiversity loss
Asset managers are increasingly turning their attention to addressing biodiversity loss, but moving beyond just exclusion and actively making investments that improve the landscape will be an uphill battle.
It has been a year since a damning report from ShareAction claimed that asset managers are blind to biodiversity loss, which pointed out that none of 75 of the world’s largest asset managers had a dedicated policy on the matter.
Return expectations differ between private vs professional investors
Private investors expect to achieve significantly higher returns compared to professional investors. The ‘expectation gap’ worldwide is currently 174 percent in the long term. This is 53 percentage points more than in 2020.
This was shown in research by Natixis Investment Managers among 8,550 individual investors. A large proportion of the investors surveyed, all with more than USD 100,000 in investable assets, achieved double-digit returns in 2020. The majority of them are also very positive about 2021.