Kate Kurbanova, co-founder and COO of Apostro, writes that the decentralised finance is lacking proper risk management and security practices which prevents more institutional investors to enter the market.
Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of investors prefer using active funds to integrate ESG, with equities (80 per cent) over bonds (58 per cent) being the most popular asset classes globally to gain ESG exposure, according to a new study by USD2.7 trillion Capital Group.
Global investor services group IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has announced that two of its French businesses, Peru & Partners and Conseil Expertise & Synthèse (CE&S), have today rebranded as IQ-EQ.
The firm writes that this rebranding marks a major milestone in the group’s growth journey within the buoyant French market.
The war in Ukraine has added continued volatility to emerging markets fixed income assets. According to a study published by Vontobel Asset Management, while institutional investors globally are wary of the war’s market and economic impacts, they remain optimistic for the months ahead.
USD3.3 billion specialist biotech investment company, BB Biotech, has enjoyed 28 years of being in the right sector at the right time, returning an annualised share performance of 12.5 per cent since launch.
In volatile markets, total platform assets across all platforms in Q1 2022 fell by -2.66 per cent on Q4 2021 values, while advised platform assets performed slightly better (-2.42 per cent), according to the lang cat’s latest quarterly Platform Market Scorecard.
Family offices – organisations that support the purpose, legacy and ambitions of the world’s most prominent families – need to accelerate their efforts to adapt and transform their strategy and operations to address a series of disruptions brought on by rapid global economic, social, regulatory, geopolitical and technological change, according to the new EY Single Family Office Study.
Britain’s millionaires are prioritising recycling as part of efforts to be more environmentally friendly, instead of changing their investments, which could have the biggest impact on the planet, according to new research from wealth manager and private bank Coutts.
intelliflo, the cloud-based technology platform for financial advisers, has reported the results from its latest eAdviser Index, which found advice firms maximising their use of intelliflo office were able to service more clients, attract more assets and generate more revenue than those not yet adopting the technology to its full potential.
Millennials have grown up, and it turns out they are the financially disciplined, focused and responsible adults in the room, according to new US survey findings published by Natixis Investment Managers (Natixis IM).