by Victor Garcia Priego | 20 November 2020 | Europe
Europe is a highly diverse continent – this maxim also applies to fund distribution. There has been a dramatic increase in cross-border sales in the past decade, and MiFID II has been introduced to harmonise regulation across markets. However, the implementation of...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 30 October 2020 | ESG
The rise of ESG is prompting some bold headlines: “Almost 60% of mutual fund assets will be ESG by 2025.” “ESG funds forecast to outnumber conventional funds by 2025.” “ESG as it is today won’t exist in 10 years – it will be the norm” and so on… But viewing the...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 12 June 2020 | Europe
Fund platforms are no longer simply intermediaries linking asset managers and distributors. This is especially true of institutional platforms, which over recent years have moved far beyond their traditional role as facilitators of fund transactions and distribution...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 22 May 2020 | Europe
Institutional fund platforms have unexpectedly become a force that is set to shape the future of fund management – despite their being unlikely candidates for headlines even in the trade press. Once a mere appendix of a couple of banking groups in Europe’s periphery,...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 17 January 2020 | ESG
“We believe that sustainability should be our new standard for investing.” This was written in bold characters in the latest letter from Larry Fink to BlackRock’s clients. It would be easy to dismiss these words as just an attempt to liberate the firm from its...
