US Vegan Climate ETF off to a promising start, trading over $4m worth of shares in its first day on the New York Stock Exchange
Last week’s launch of the world’s first vegan-friendly and climate-conscious exchange traded fund (ETF) by Beyond Investing has seen strong initial take-up.
Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with €1.487 trillion in AUM, including €297 billion in responsible investing, announces the launch of Amundi Funds Multi-Asset Sustainable Future, which combines diversified investment management with an ESG (...)
Launch of an equity fund reducing carbon emissions
Actis Asset Management has announced the launch of a Long/Short Equity fund investing in firms which are reducing greenhouse gas emissions per euro of sales. Impact Carbon Long/Short Equity – FR0013392107 was launched on Friday 29 March 2019 by Actis Asset Management (...)
Muzinich & Co. launches its first European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) in collaboration with Cordusio SIM
Muzinich & Co and Cordusio SIM, announce the launch of the Muzinich Firstlight Middle Market ELTIF, the first ELTIF fund managed by Muzinich in Europe.
Mixed outlook for L/S Equity Neutral and Short-Selling
Lyxor’s L/S Equity Neutral peer group was down -2.8% year-to-date, hurt by extreme trading conditions and the constituents’ average market beta of 20%. The environment has been challenging for the strategy amid extreme stock volatility and unsettling heavy systematic trading (...)
In the space of alternative strategies, Global Macro and Event-Driven strategies rebounded the most since March 23rd. Both Merger Arbitrage and Special Situations sub strategies benefitted as M&A deal spreads tightened significantly since (...)
ESMA report values EU Alternative Investment Funds at €5.8 trillion
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its second statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF). The study found that the EU AIF sector in 2018, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to €5.8tn or nearly 40% (...)
BlackRock achieves a $1 billion record first close for its third-vintage global renewables fund
BlackRock Real Assets has achieved a US$1 billion first close for its Global Renewable Power III fund (“GRP III,”) with commitments from over 35 institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia.
Going forward, our stance remains defensive on equities, in particular on European, Japanese and EM markets (UW). In the space of alternative strategies, we prefer Market Neutral L/S vs. Directional L/S, despite the fact that the latter has adopted a cautious stance in (...)