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2022 promises to be a pivotal year in the lifecycle of ESG investing – one defined by the maturing and mainstreaming of ESG as an investment discipline, and by changing attitudes and approaches among global investors towards this fast-evolving area.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday published a staff bulletin that seeks to clarify how broker dealers and investment advisors must address conflicts of interest when providing advice and recommendations to investors.
New comptroller numbers suggest City Hall will have to restore several billion dollars to keep retirees’ benefit investments replenished, as stock performance lags projections.
Dan James, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and head of synthetics and quant sales between 2014 and 2018, has opened a new hedge fund search boutique, Monroe Partners with veteran headhunter Christian Robbins.
Private equity performance has held relatively steady compared with the pain in the public markets so far this year. That may start changing over the new few weeks.
Asset managers are now almost twice as likely as they were last year to implement ESG considerations within fixed income, according to a survey conducted by the Index Industry Association.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed legislation Thursday that would ban state pension funds from selecting investments based on environmental, social and governance factors, bringing a growing backlash against these investment standards to the shores of the nation’s third-largest state.
The firm’s other flagship PE offering, Ares Special Opportunities Fund II, remains in the market after its hard-cap was bumped up to $7.1 billion from $6.1 billion.
“The market is looking for a pivot … when the only reason you would get it is [if] the economy collapses, said economist Mohamed El-Erian
As a result of failing to rethink their ways, too many universities and other institutional investors are missing out on great talent and future economic opportunities.
