ODDO BHF Asset Management completes further closings of its senior loan strategy focusing on German Mittelstand companies. In approximately one year, the private debt strategy has raised nearly EUR250 million. This demonstrates strong interest fro...

Thomas Leys, Investment Manager, Aberdeen Standard investments With the rapid need to decarbonise and limit the potential devastation of global warming becoming top-of-agenda for governments, companies and investors, demand for ‘net zero portfo...

The transition to a low carbon economy is gathering pace, with no company immune to the global push to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Our first Analyst Survey focussed solely on sustainability reveals that just under half of Fidelity Internatio...

In 1950, global plastic consumption totalled only 2 million tonnes. This has increased 200-fold, to 406 million tonnes per year as of 2019 according to Plastics Europe. From an environmental perspective, the single-use plastics commonly used in pa...

By Nadia Gharbi & Frederik Ducrozet, Pictet Wealth Management. ECB President Christine Lagarde did her best to convey a message of stability and continuity, but our impression is that a lot is going on behind the scenes as the hawks are pus...

Commenting on today’s ECB meeting, Anna Stupnytska, global economist, Fidelity International, says: “At its June meeting, the ECB confirmed the ‘significantly higher’ pace of PEPP purchases relative to early 2021, as per its commitment made in ...