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Two-fifths (40%) of advisers and consumers have reported a higher interest in sustainable investing as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, research conducted by Boring Money has found.

87.2 per cent of investors expect gold to rise further in H2 despite all-time high Submitted 10/08/2020 - 9:28am Eighty seven per cent of investors in precious metals are expecting the price of gold to climb even higher in the second half of the year. According to a new infographic released by Kryptoszene.de, both small investors and market experts see great…

ESG and global equity funds both continued to break records over the past month and quarter, however this did not prevent active equity funds losing £638m overall in July alone, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone.

The global pandemic is a rare opportunity to gauge how well AI and big data applications in investing have performed.

The investment clock is a useful way of showing how a business cycle typically develops over time, writes John Husselbee, and has proved as good a method as any of pinpointing ‘where we are' in terms of markets and economies...

Bridgewater veterans of more than 15 years were among those laid off in Zoom meetings and given several days’ notice

Neil Woodford has taken on an advisory role with specialist asset manager Juno Capital as he looks to return to the investment industry, according to reports.

Measures outlined by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to address the liquidity mismatch in open-ended property funds are expected to dampen investor appetite for the vehicle, and drive flows out of the sector in favour of property investment trusts and ETFs.

European ‘zombie’ companies have three to six months' runway before defaults rise, says Aviva Investors Submitted By Madeleine Taylor | 03/08/2020 - 3:47pm Concern is growing over a likely spike in defaults among so-called ‘zombie’ companies that have stayed afloat during the coronavirus pandemic by relying on…

Artisan Partners AUM rose 26.7% in the quarter and 6% for the year, buoyed by second-quarter returns.

Yield-starved asset managers see attractive relative-value opportunities in EM debt market as spreads stay wide Submitted By Madeleine Taylor | 05/08/2020 - 2:02pm Asset managers say it is time to embrace riskier fixed-income assets again, with emerging markets bonds becoming an increasingly attractive option for…

About 10% of TIAA's workforce took up the firm's buyout offer and will leave the firm later this year.

Azimut Capital Partners made its first investment in a U.S. alternatives manager, buying 20% of private credit manager Kennedy Lewis.

The appointment of Mathew McDermott means the newest face of blockchain and cryptocurrency on Wall Street isn't a starry-eyed bitcoin evangelist, but a 46-year-old veteran of old-school financing markets.

As of Aug. 5, all publicly traded money managers tracked by saw their assets rise in the second quarter.

By outsourcing the day-to-day operations of its record-keeping business to Infosys, Vanguard drives down costs and ramps up its technology.

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Greg Jones was named head of distribution at Artemis Investment Management.

Funds of fund strategies investing only in index or smart-beta instruments have performed better than those investing only, or mainly, in active funds over the past five years, research from Morningstar shows.

“The best consumer story in the world”: Investors ride China’s economic recovery Submitted By Madeleine Taylor | 24/07/2020 - 5:03pm Investors are eyeing China’s growing equity markets as signs of an economic recovery start to emerge. The IMF is forecasting that China will grow in 2020 and see a strong rebound in 2021,…