Belgian financial market supervisor FSMA has carried out a study on the local public fund market following the implementation of the EU sustainable finance disclosure regulation (SFDR) last March.
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The Spanish fund distribution platform on Thursday announced a strategic partnership with the New York-headquartered alternatives fintech.
The new standards of the Belgian socially responsible investment label Towards Sustainability will apply from January 2022 onwards.
In the first three months of 2021, sustainable products accounted for €12bn, almost half of new business in open-ended mutual funds in the German fund industry.
European-domiciled investment funds account for increasing proportion of inward investment into China – increasing from 33.1% by the end of 2017 to 56.2% by December 2020.
Strong returns, increasing regulatory push for non-financial disclosures and shifting economics of renewable energy has led to a growing investor demand for Europe-domiciled energy transition funds.
Euroclear agrees to acquire MFEX Group, a fund distribution platform majority owned by Nordic Capital further streamline fund distribution and post-trading services.
Environmental impact funds saw their assets tripling from €100bn at the end of 2016 to €320bn at the end of 2020.
