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  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    ARK Investment Management LLC
    Cathie Wood’s Ark buys Rize ETF as it pushes into Europe

    Wall Street investor partners with Martin Gilbert on developing new funds

    Ark Investment Management chief executive Cathie Wood
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Private equity
    Private equity M&A set to whittle sector down to 100 ‘next-generation’ firms

    Split between managers that can raise money and those that cannot will lead to consolidation, predicts Partners Group CEO

    David Layton
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Pensions industry
    UK pension schemes could save £2bn in fees, research finds

    Data showing big gaps in investment costs suggests lack of transparency is hitting pension savers

    Skyscrapers in the City of London square mile financial district in London, U.K
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Advice & Comment
    Downfall of once-mighty Gars fund offers investors lessons

    Former Abrdn flagship closes after years of underperformance

    Exterior of Abrdn’s headquarters in Edinburgh
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    European equities
    Fund managers grow more gloomy over outlook for European stocks

    Bank of America survey finds investors nervous about high valuations after second-quarter earnings season

    Stock price information displayed in the entrance of the Euronext stock exchange in Paris
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    US-China relations
    House committee quizzes BlackRock and MSCI on China investments

    US lawmakers accuse firms of facilitating capital flows to ‘America’s foremost foreign adversary’

    Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin and chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the US and the Chinese Communist Party, speaks in Congress earlier this year.
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Financial services
    Buyout groups raise debt against portfolios to return cash as dealmaking slows

    Net asset value financing adds new layer of debt amid surging borrowing costs

    Logos of Vista Equity Partners, The Carlyle Group and Hg
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    UK financial regulation
    City minister rejects claims listing reforms would hurt London’s standing

    Andrew Griffith and LSE chief Julia Hoggett defend FCA’s planned shake-up from complaints by top investors

    Andrew Griffith
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    UK financial regulation
    Pension schemes argue London listing reforms would damage City

    Investors complain fundamental rights of shareholders would be threatened by FCA’s plans to attract more companies to list in the UK

    The Financial Conduct Authority
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Moral Money
    Politics hang over US brands during Pride month Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, how asset managers boost fossil fuel expansion via bond market

    A crowd of people holding rainbow flags
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Pensions crisis
    MPs call for better pension scheme safeguards after UK’s LDI crisis

    Report criticises lax oversight that created threat to economy after Truss ‘mini’ Budget

    A pension scheme letter and £1 coins
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    WisdomTree board battle comes to a head

    Trio of proxy advisers back calls from major shareholder to remove chair of ETF provider

    Jono Steinberg, founder and chief executive of WisdomTree
  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    Fund management
    Fund managers cut commodity allocations as China demand doubts grow

    Institutional investors retreat from sector after broad price falls over past 12 months

    A butcher uses a large knife to cut portions of beef
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    ESG investing
    Hong Kong insurer AIA invests $200mn into impact funds

    Allocation to LeapFrog highlights growing Asian demand for funds with social and environmental goals

  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Pension Protection Fund
    UK’s pension lifeboat fund slashes equity allocation

    Investment chief concerned by ‘stickiness of inflation’ and prefers infrastructure and forestry

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    US equities
    Hedge funds raise bets against US stocks as debt deadline nears

    Shorts linked to S&P 500 hit 12-year high amid caution on valuations and earnings

    People walk along Wall Street outside of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Investment trusts
    Private equity investment trust discounts widen

    Average discount across 14 PE trusts is 34 per cent

    A broker looks at financial information on computer screens on a trading floor
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    UK economy
    Ministers look at reshaping pensions lifeboat fund to give boost to business

    Government examines sweeping change to role of Pension Protection Fund to unlock billions for investment

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Commercial property
    Fund managers cut commercial property exposure to lowest since 2008

    Bank of America survey shows managers’ allocations have fallen sharply from peak last spring

    The Manhattan skyline from Gantry Plaza State Park
  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Share buybacks
    Record buyback spree attracts shareholder complaints

    Purchases by the world’s biggest 1,200 companies triple in a decade to rival dividends in scale

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    EU financial regulation
    Brussels backtracks on financial advice inducement ban

    Leaked document indicates EU will allow asset managers to continue to pay commissions to advisers

    Mairead McGuinness speaking at a podium with the EU stars logo in the background
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    Corporate culture ETFs aim to gain from happier employees

    Companies included in indices rated for worker perceptions of autonomy, fairness and trust

    Chinese workers prepare an export order at a clothing factory in Suzhou
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Waste management & recycling
    Big investors call on companies to slash use of plastics

    Coalition overseeing $10tn in assets warns on financial risks of inaction

    Disposable single use plastic objects such as bottles, cups
  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    Fund management
    Asset management chiefs — changing of the guard

    New generation of leaders warns of growing complexity and end of industry’s ‘golden decade’

  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    Pensions industry
    FCA demands tougher tests for pension funds after gilts chaos

    UK watchdog says ‘more to be done’ over liquidity risks and conflicts of interest in LDI strategies

    Signage for the Financial Conduct Authority
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