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Data Needs Lead Boutique Asset Manager Triodos IM to Take Hands-on Role
For a boutique asset manager, impact-focused Triodos Investment Management gets lots of air time. The recent winner of a MainStreet Partners ESG Champion of 2022 award, the Dutch manager makes no bones about putting its philosophy where its mouth is. The firm recently signed an open letter calling for reform of the European Union’s Common…
ESG Reporting Has Come a Long Way, but Has Further to Go
Huge steps have been made in recent years to bring ESG reporting standards up the level of reported financial information – but there’s a long way to go yet. A shortage of data, a lack of harmonisation on standards and the sheer number of vendors are among the key challenges facing the industry as regulators…
Kneip Accelerates Innovation of Fund Data Management and Reporting Solutions with Acquisition of Dataglide
Kneip, a Luxembourg and London-based provider of fund data management and reporting solutions for the asset management industry, has acquired Dataglide, a London-based technology company specialising in data transformation and cloud-based automation. The acquisition follows more than a year’s work by the companies to build a next generation fund data management platform for Kneip. It…
Regulatory Oversight Committee of the LEI Revises Policy on Level 2 Data Reporting
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global LEI System (GLEIS) has revised two elements of policy covering the reporting of LEI parent relationship data, also known as Level 2 data. To improve the usability of Level 2 data, the ROC has revised the list of opt-out reasons that can be used by an entity…
Liontrust Implements Fundipedia Platform to Gain Golden Source Data
Liontrust Asset Management has implemented Fundipedia’s data management platform to provide golden source, validated, and trustworthy data for both the company and its downstream data vendors. The project was delivered by Fundipedia’s implementation team, which onboarded Liontrust’s data in less than 12 weeks. Vinay Abrol, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Liontrust, says:…
‘S’ Set to Emerge From E’s Shadow in 2022, But Concerns Remain
Social impact investing is set to emerge as a driving force in sustainable finance this year, with financial institutions expected to consider more than just climate risk in their investment decisions. Data vendors and ratings companies forecast that social factors will become more important in 2022 and that regulators will begin placing more focus on…
Everything You Need to Know About How to Get Value from Unstructured Data
Unstructured data has huge potential to help financial institutions better understand their customers and markets, gain greater business insights, and develop revenue generating products. It also raises significant challenges, including managing vast volumes of data, sorting the wheat from the chaff, ensuring data quality and consistency, and protecting data privacy. Despite these challenges, firms are…
M&G Investments Engages Bloomberg DMS to Acquire, Manage and Distribute Multi-Sourced ESG Data
M&G Investments is working with Bloomberg’s cloud-based Data Management Services (DMS) to host the acquisition and management of ESG data, and enable integration of the data into its investment processes. Bloomberg DMS will onboard and consolidate M&G Investments’ ESG data providers to its private, cloud-based solution, enabling more control, providing a holistic view of the…
BankInvest Selects IHS Markit EDM Managed Service to Support Next Phase of Growth
Danish asset manager BankInvest has selected IHS Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) managed service as part of a transformation based on an increase in market share over recent years and designed to upgrade operations systems to support the next phase of growth. The firm already uses the vendor’s corporate actions solution. The IHS Markit EDM…
The View in 2022 – Another Pivotal Year in ESG
In many ways 2021 was a watershed year for ESG. The European Union’s implementation of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) began in earnest and other regulators around the world – especially in the UK – indicated they may soon follow suit. The COP26 United Nations climate summit later in the year provided a galvanising impetus…