The Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund, which makes UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development and is managed by Jim Totty and Nick Curtis, is close to its first close. »

Scottish Widows has selected BlackRock to manage GBP30 billion of assets in index strategies, following the review by Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group’s Wealth business of their asset management arrangements. »

VanEck Vectors Morningstar US Wide Moat UCITS ETF has celebrated its third anniversary, reporting an annualised performance of 17.5 per cent since launch. »

Morgane Delledonne, ETF Investment Strategist at BMO Global Asset Management, has written a note explaining why the business is cautiously optimistic on emerging market equities.  »

The top team at State Street Global Markets has commented on last night’s (10 October) global market sell-off. »

SCM Direct has called out the FCA for failing to enforce legally required cost transparency regulation under MiFID II, which was passed in April 2014 and came into force on 3 January 2018. »

Funds focused on new technology caught the eye this week with a distributed ledger (blockchain) fund from First Block Capital and funds from HANetf based on Solactive’s Innovative Technologies and Cloud Technology indexes. Elsewhere, Franklin Templeton added three new passive funds to its LibertyShares line-up, while Legg Mason launched its first actively-managed taxable fixed income ETF… »