Mark Mobius’s planned responsible emerging markets fund will not seek companies that score high on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, instead looking for companies with relatively poor ESG practices and work directly with the management on improving them.
Mark Mobius has formally confirmed former Franklin Templeton colleagues Carlos Hardenberg and Greg Konieczny as founding partners in his eponymous boutique firm, as details of the planned emerging and frontier markets fund are revealed.
The days of treating ESG and sustainability matters as “extra curricular” are numbered and will be the differentiator for investments in the future, according to Legg Mason affiliates. Click through the slides below to find out five ways to integrate ESG into investments.
Controversial Venezuelan debt has been excluded from a new JP Morgan fixed income index for emerging market issuers with strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.
UK investors in a number of iShares ETFs remain exposed to guns as Blackrock responds to the recent school shooting tragedy in Florida in its US range through the launch of firearm-free products.
Heartwood Investment Management has added two lower-risk strategies to its sustainable multi-asset range.
While ESG has become an inherent part of risk management, SRI (socially responsible investment) products are, by comparison, designed to meet the demand of specific investors, according to Aberdeen Standard emerging markets investment manager William Scholes.
A letter from Insight Investment calling for greater green bond issuance from banks highlights the lack of depth in the green bond space, despite the market growing significantly over the last year and the first green bond funds reaching their three-year track record.
Hermes Investment Management is boosting its fixed income prowess with the launch of an unconstrained ESG credit fund later this year.
EdenTree fund manager Sue Round has blamed “savage downgrades” among fund holdings for recent fourth quartile performance, including Provident Financial, which she argues does hold a place in an ethical portfolio.
Eastspring Investments has strengthened its commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing after signing up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
More than £1bn of retail money flowed into ethical funds in 2017, representing the highest annual level of sales for this type of fund ever, but the sector’s progression is stifled by an identity crisis.
