Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has made an initial $300 million equity investment in Britain’s Octopus Energy Group as part of a long-term strategic partnership. Reuters state that “the investment and partnership with Octopus Energy was made through CPP Investment’s Sustainable Energies Group, which aims to increase its level of committed capital over …
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U.S. bond funds have attracted record inflows throughout 2021, despite worries about inflation and expectations the Federal Reserve could roll back its pandemic-era stimulus measures earlier than expected. According to Refinitiv Lipper data, U.S. bond funds attracted a net $612B in the first eleven months of this year, already surpassing the record inflow of $486.18B …
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For the first time ever, annual global net inflows into ETFs have surpassed $1 trillion in 2021, and this milestone was reached in November. This brought total global assets invested in ETFs close to $9.5T, more than twice their value as of the end of 2018. In 2020, the global inflows for the full year …
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JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has launched its Climate Change Solutions Fund to be managed by Francesco Conte, Yazann Romahi and Sara Bellenda. Funds Europe states that the fund is “the firm’s first EU SFDR Article 9 SICAV fund and will invest in “forward thinking companies” that the managers consider to be developing and scaling …
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The explosion in DIY investing since the start of the pandemic has led to a scramble among Britain’s more traditional asset managers and banks to buy or build online platforms that give consumers more direct control of their investment portfolios. While the ‘meme stock’ frenzy that saw a rush by consumers to buy shares in …
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