Investment
UK funds invest £650m in Trump detention camps
St James’s Place, Neptune and Aviva Investors are among asset managers with £657.7m ($869m, €744m) in three companies connected with US detention camps holding immigrants and their children.
Are China’s ETFs taking off?
Thanks to robust net inflows, China’s ETF market is now second in Asia behind Japan, data from Morningstar shows.
Investment | 12 Jul 18
Nick Train: Value was a 20th-century phenomenon
Finsbury Growth & Income mananger Nick Train has played down stretched price-to-earnings ratios on companies like Hargreaves Lansdown as he warns digital disruption could mean value investing is consigned to the last century.
Alternatives | 11 Jul 18
Tensions simmer over definition of impact investing
Impact investing, as a dedicated niche of sustainable investing, is under threat by greenwashing from mainstream asset managers, specialists warn.
Investment | 11 Jul 18
Services boost GDP as UK pursues goods-centric Brexit
Services have bolstered UK GDP growth less than a week after Prime Minister Theresa May outlines plans to pursue a Brexit trading relationship with the European Union focused on goods.