ESG
Thinking practically about SDGs
SDGs can lead to a tick a box approach; investors need to focus on outputs and changing the behaviour in portfolio companies, a panel has heard.
Jessica SierNovember 20, 2020
UBS asset management
Investment strategy
Active EM managers see opportunity despite capital outflows
Despite the capital outflows emerging markets have more room for both fiscal and monetary stimulus compared to developing markets and will benefit from the supply chain diversification will follow Covid-19.
Ben HurleyJune 4, 2020
Hedge Funds
Members’ voluntary super contributions went down in 2016
UBS and the Financial Services Council blamed ‘constant’ tinkering with super policy for a 1.5 per cent dip in annual member contributions.
Dan PurvesMarch 1, 2017
Investment Strategy
UBS Asset Management’s Curt Custard is unhappy
Curt Custard, head of global investment solutions at UBS Global Asset Management, is “very, very disappointed” with his investment banking colleagues. Perhaps even a little mad. But he displays similar sentiments toward US Republican presidential candidates, politicians in general, Europe and John Maynard Keynes. At UBS asset management “nobody is as frustrated as ourselves as […]
I & T NewsFebruary 29, 2012