Markets – Page 107
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Diversification appetite driving greater small cap demand: bfinance
Investment consultant group relays stronger interest among its institutional investor clients
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M&A, equity markets drag on Danica’s 2018 profits
Pension customers hit by 2018 losses of up to 10% as equity markets plunged
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Austrian pension funds post 5.3% average loss for 2018
Funds hit by equity volatility but long-term average remains over 5%
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NewsFTSE Russell finalises fixed income country classification framework
Index provider sets out guidelines for government bond indices, launches Chinese green bond index
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Amundi: ESG investing ‘has influenced equity performance’
Asset manager sought to find out if being an ESG investor had an impact on portfolio performance
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EU aims to boost investment in small cap, CEE with new indices
SMEs in central and eastern Europe not on investors’ radar screens, European Commission says
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2019 Outlook: Preparing for the downside, part 1
IPE analyses investment outlooks from investment firms including DWS, BlackRock, SSGA, and Invesco.
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Joseph Mariathasan: What should drive ESG investing?
Mathematical measures are not the best way of assessing the effectiveness of ESG strategies, argues Joseph Mariathasan
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Chart of the Week: ECB to end QE-fuelled balance sheet expansion
European Central Bank will maintain the size of its balance sheet – estimated at €4.7trn – at least until it can raise rates
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Energy transition ‘could seriously hit funding of Dutch schemes’
Coverage could drop by up to 17 percentage points over a five-year period, according to Sprenkels & Verschuren
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Controversial weapons exclusion initiative gathers steam
Swiss-instigated initiative gaining traction among broader European investor base
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IPE Conference: EU should ‘use single market access to its advantage’
Former EU trade commissioner Karel de Gucht says EU ‘must remind Trump how valuable it is’
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ESMA moves on UK clearing house recognition in case of cliff-edge Brexit
EU watchdog working with Commission and UK clearing houses on temporary recognition
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Chart of the Week: Sterling struggles as Brexit deal teeters on the brink
The UK currency has fallen versus the dollar and the euro in the immediate aftermath of a draft agreement emerging
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UK asset management body calls for bond market data boosts
Proposals formulated in light of best execution requirement under MiFID II
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AnalysisAnalysis: European Commission rejects Italian budget plan
Italy’s government is intent on keeping its budget promises after the European Commission rejected its draft plan, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Unilever abandons restructure under pressure from shareholders
RLAM and other major shareholders had opposed “forced divestment of Unilever under a single listing”
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EU watchdog spearheads preparations for ‘no deal’ Brexit
ESMA, EU27 regulators should have memoranda of understanding with FCA, says Steven Maijoor
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MSCI proposes to quadruple China A-shares weight in EM benchmarks
ChiNext and mid-cap companies could be added in phases throughout 2019 and 2020
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News10 years on from Lehman: seven trends that have shaped the industry
Pension funds and asset managers – what’s changed since 2008?
