Carmignac focuses on China
Paris-based fund manager launches new fund to invest in the structural trends of the new China. The fund takes a sustainability approach to stock selection.
UBS AM: 60% of global central banks expect to launch their own digital currency
UBS Asset Management publishes the results of its ‘Annual Reserve Manager Survey’, an authoritative survey in which 30 central banks worldwide participate.
Capital Group: market operators are now fintechs
There are a lot of opportunities in finance (particularly in Asia), but you have to leave the beaten track. And stock market operators are the most important fintech companies today. There are also plenty of disruption opportunities in Fintech 2.0. So says William Pang of Capital Group in an interview with Investment Officer.
ALFI announces executive committee
Luxembourg’s fund industry association ALFI has announced the appointment of its executive committee. The appointment was made by ALFI’s board of directors and publicised in an 8 July 2021 press release.
The members of the committee are:
CFOs & bank operational agility
Pressure on banks to manage costs and be more agile is felt particularly keenly by the chief financial officer (CFO). Efficiently provided financial data are key to enabling executives to operate effectively, seek operational efficiencies and increase compliance. A panel of five CFOs assembled by the ABBL discussed how they work towards this, particularly regarding their use of IT and outsourcing.
Fund administrators confront cybersecurity
Some businesses were driven to quickly put systems in place as the pandemic drove a sudden move to remote working. This has however meant that despite most businesses having a cybersecurity strategy in place, they haven’t had the time to understand everything that these new technologies can do, according to George Ralph, global managing director at RFA, a cybersecurity provider to the financial services sector.
SKAGEN: Incremental ESG change in the real estate sector
Real estate is of growing importance to society, both in terms of how the built environment tackles climate change and how it interacts with its customers, community and other stakeholders.
ETFs are on their way to becoming the mother of all records
All indications are that 2021 will be an unprecedented record year for equity ETFs. In the first six months alone, inflows reached USD 519 billion. This means that all previous records have already been broken. Decades of growth for passive products await’.
PGIM: Emerging Trends: Secular and Structural Opportunities in Developing Markets
After the COVID-related upheaval of the past year, what can emerging markets investors focus on going forward?
AXA IM: Alzheimer's breakthrough could drive a new wave of biotech innovation
The accelerated approval of the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in almost two decades looks set to be a potential game changer for the biotechnology sector.