M&G goes green with ethical high-yield fund launch
M&G Investments has launched an ESG-screened global high-yield bond fund, the company’s first venture into the area of responsible investing.
M&G Investments has launched an ESG-screened global high-yield bond fund, the company’s first venture into the area of responsible investing.
M&G veteran fund manager Richard Hughes is to retire in March next year, while Aled Smith is stepping down from running the M&G Global Leaders Fund in April.
M&G is launching an actively-managed global listed infrastructure fund taking into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
M&G wants to change the name and investment policy of its £2.1bn M&G Global Basics fund so that it can invest beyond just ‘basic economies’.
The US remains the best dividend market in the world “by a mile” and yield opportunities still exist despite high valuations, M&G’s Stuart Rhodes believes.
Prudential has sold its US independent broker-dealer network to focus on local retirement products just days after announcing plans to merge its UK insurance and asset management businesses.
Prudential has merged its M&G and UK savings businesses, amidst growing speculation that the insurer intends to break-up its operations.
A policy reversal at the Bank of England is imminent and could prompt it to sell its £10bn hoard of corporate bonds back to the market, M&G’s Richard Woolnough has said.
M&G Investments has strengthened its emerging market offering with the launch of two strategies focusing on the region’s hard currency debt and income opportunities.
M&G has proposed transferring four UK-domiciled open-ended funds to its Luxembourg platform over fear and uncertainty surrounding the UK’s exit from the European Union.
Michael McLintock, former CEO of M&G Investments, has joined Neptune Investment Management as a ‘special adviser’ on strategy and distribution.
The Bank of England may allow inflation to overshoot its target “for some time” amid the uncertainty that following the triggering of Article 50 on Wednesday, M&G’s Jim Leaviss has said.