Investing Passive

Any competent ESG manager will tell you their engagement policies are meaningless without the credible threat of divestment. But as investors eye the finishing line on another dramatic year, it…

A reduction in fees, which have now been taken into account as part of the strategy’s formal review, has boosted M&G (Lux) European Corporate Bond’s appeal. Whilst pillar ratings remain…

Every week, we ask managers of a UK-based trust or fund 13 different questions about their work, investment style and life. And one of the questions we always ask is…

The consumer price index numbers for September are in, and according to the Office for National Statistics, it rose by 10.1% in September from a year before. The inflation rate…

Any competent ESG manager will tell you their engagement policies are meaningless without the credible threat of divestment. But as investors eye the finishing line on another dramatic, chaotic and…

If you didn’t already know, there are several companies in the Morningstar family, and one of them – Pitchbook – runs ongoing dedicated analysis of the world of venture capital.…

In a year of subdued economic growth, the market is watching China’s 20th Communist Party Congress closely for clues on what might happen next. The Congress starts 16 October with…

New chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt has ripped up the government’s mini-Budget policies, announcing an extraordinary U-turn on plans to lower tax. The planned cut in income tax next…

Sunniva Kolostyak: Contrary to what you might think, greenwashing and a lack of standardisation are not ESG’s biggest problems. Even more significant is the co-ordinated campaign of divestment being levelled…