Global equities

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) investment director Jonathan Price shares how the team’s Life Cycle approach helps their portfolios stand out.

In 2017, RLAM launched two global equity strategies – Global Equity Select and Global Equity Diversified. The strategies have since produced four years of attractive absolute and relative returns, continuing an impressive track record from a strategy that was initially launched in 2002.

MSCI has launched eight indices to enable institutional investors to position their portfolios in line with the Paris Agreement to keep global temperatures within 1.5 degrees.

Fidelity International has launched three actively-managed ESG ETFs, further expanding the five-strong Sustainable Family range of funds it released in last September.

The £45bn Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has launched its largest fund to date, with £5bn of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets being allocated to global equity alpha.

Asset Management Exchange (AMX) has added tax transparent global equity vehicles to its range of investment funds to cut scheme costs and increase transparency across the industry.

Investor confidence in Europe rose by 16.0 points in January with each region showing growing appetite for risk, according to research by State Street Global Exchange.

UK equities closed the year at an all-time high, putting the seal on a good year for the stock market, according to S&P Dow Jones.

Capital Group and Newton Investment Management have teamed up to raise awareness of how negative cash flows among defined benefit (DB) schemes should be tackled differently.

Equities and infrastructure are the top asset classes to bet on doing well next year, according to PP research.