Socially-responsible investing is not about short-term gains, says Union Investment’s sustainability chief Florian Sommer, it’s about divining future business trends and working out which companies are best able to adapt.
Negative headlines have done little to help managers make investing in Africa an attractive proposition, but the sheer size of the continent and the opportunities on offer mean it is worth taking a second look, says Ashburton Investments’ Paul Clark,
More China-based asset managers are expected to internationalise and target European investors, according to Alessandro Silvestro, Hong Kong-based managing director, Asia Pacific, at Lemanik Asset Management.
China’s private wealth is growing at a break neck pace with four of its eastern provinces as wealthy as Portugal, according to analysis from Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).
The opening of the China A-shares market to foreign investors provides a window for China-focused funds to push ESG criteria into greater prominence in the world’s second largest economy.
Index provider MSCI formally included around 230 China A-shares into its three widely-tracked indices on Friday, but fund managers see a minimal impact on the A-share market.
Robo-advice and wealth management mobile apps are taking off in China, with a report from Boston Consulting Group showing online wealth management services have experienced 50% annual growth over the past five years.
The ex-chief executive of China’s beleaguered Anbang Insurance Group has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for corruption and fraud and will have assets worth CNY10.5bn (£1.2bn, $1.6bn, €1.4bn) confiscated by the state.
Despite a spate of China ETF delistings in Hong Kong, Vanguard is about to launch its first China-focused exchange traded fund in Hong Kong.
Financials re-rating, structural changes and deleveraging are behind an increased confidence in DWS’s overweight in China equity, according to the firm’s chief information officer Sean Taylor.
China’s securities regulator has announced a four-fold increase in the daily trading quotas for Stock Connect, the programme that links the Shanghai and Shenzen stock exchanges with their Hong Kong counterpart.
Despite the return of market volatility, a Vietnam equity fund managed by JP Morgan Asset Management has soared to the top as best performer, according to data from FE Analytics.
