Communication about a firm’s investment process and performance metrics is part of how clients can develop more confidence and understanding when it comes to the investments that make the entire wealth management plan work.
One of the big reasons why ESG exchange traded funds raced to assets under management records last year — and are expected to continue doing so this year — is institutional adoption.
Only at small-cap companies are a minority of shares held by institutional investors, according to findings published in Corporate Secretary sister publication IR Magazine’s Global and Regional Investor Relations Practice Report 2021.
Drivers of 2021’s robust fundraising – an accelerated pace, bigger tickets, LPs pressing allocation limits and hot strategies like growth equity, tech and the energy transition – will likely also feature in 2022’s market.
Hopes of a global reopening following two years of Covid-19 and government-imposed lockdowns across the world are trumping any fears of Fed hikes, as fund managers take a generally bullish stance in January, according to a report by the Bank of America.