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Funds management
Environmental, social and governance integration in Asia-Pacific has grown more than any other region over the last year, according to a Capital Group study....
Funds management
The world’s largest asset manager has warned of growing threats, allocating more money to defensive investments as it feels the macroeconomic outlook is deteriorating....
Funds management
BlackRock has updated its three 2022 investment themes to account for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine....
Funds management
The jury is out on whether Chinese equities are at risk over the long term from an enduring conflict in the Ukraine, with disparate views between fund managers....
Funds management
Government bonds might not provide the same level of protection that they have traditionally offered portfolios because of inflation and geopolitical turmoil. ...
Funds management
The “big picture context” of low fixed income yields and persistent global equities performance can be viewed through three themes, including living with inflation, cutti...
Funds management
BlackRock’s focus on sustainability is not because the fund manager is an environmentalist but because of its fiduciary duties to its clients, according to its chief exec...
Funds management
Investors’ weightings to China assume an “overly negative economic outlook”, according to BlackRock, which is unlikely to occur as last year’s tensions begin to dissipate...
Financial planning
Advisers are adopting model portfolios because of the benefits of scale that they provide, according to iShares....
People & Products
Guilherme Lima will develop strategies for BlackRock’s offerings to address the needs of wealth clients throughout Asia Pacific. ...
Funds management
There is a growing concentration among the top 20 managers whose market share increased to 44% of total assets, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute....
Features
Although seemingly having good intentions for the public, Chris Dastoor writes, political battle lines have taken priority in the common ownership inquiry....
Funds management
Although “striking in its magnitude” of how much of the ASX 50 is held by intuitional funds, an academic says there is little research to suggest funds that track an inde...
Superannuation
As superannuation funds grow in assets, NAB chief executive, Ross McEwan, is concerned they will hold excess influence over firms as large shareholders in the future....
Funds management
Once used as tactical instruments in a portfolio, exchange traded funds have evolved low-cost ways to build a portfolio....
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