The final days of summer saw a range of ESG ETF launches from Ossiam in Europe while in the US, BlackRock launched a metaverse fund and a suite of BuyWrite funds based on baskets of fixed income securities.

LGT, the private banking and asset management group owned by the Liechtenstein Princely Family, has launched a dedicated team for UK-based asset managers interested in setting up Liechtenstein-domiciled private label funds.

Refinitiv Lipper’s fund flow report for December finds that long-term mutual funds (+EUR718.9 billion) posted net inflows for 2021 overall. 

Alternatives will offer investors the most effective downside protection over the next 10 years, according to Smith & Williamson Investment Management’s Managed Portfolio Service (MPS). 

More than GBP22 billion is currently languishing in multi-asset funds which have underperformed their peers consistently over the last decade, new research from Asset Intelligence has found.

Premier Miton Investors' Diverse Income Trust has marked its 10 year anniversary with returns since inception ranking it as one of the top performers in its peer group. 

Net retail sales reached GBP6.2 billion in December 2020, in the second largest monthly net retail sales figure on record after November 2020, new data published by the Investment Association (IA) reveals. 

November 2020 was a month of record highs for the fund market as savers invested GBP8.3 billion, according to the latest figures from the Investment Association.

ESG funds have outperformed their peers across major equity markets in 2020, delivering near double the returns of non-ESG mandates in the IA Global sector, Willis Owen’s inaugural annual ESG review reveals.

FE Investments, the investment arm of global fund data company FE fundinfo, has seen a record 125 per cent increase in assets under management (AUM) this year into its Responsibly Managed portfolio range.