Fine Grain Property is an Irish long term, patient investor, focused on building workplace communities which allow employers to attract and retain employees in an environment of success. What will the workplace of the future look like? It’s the question that businesses worldwide have been pondering since Covid-19 brought remote working into the…
How Top-Down Governance Analysis Adds Value Top-Down VS. Bottom Up Overwhelmingly, investment professionals today utilize an investment process generally known as “bottom-up” investing. A typical bottom-up investor emphasizes equity selection and researches an assortment of companies, attempting to pick those with the greatest likelihood of outperforming the market based on individual merits. The investor mixes…
Growth in Private Funds The last decade has seen a significant increase in funds investing in private asset classes such as private equity, real estate and infrastructure. As yields in the bond markets have plummeted investors have explored alternative asset classes which can deliver higher returns albeit in much less liquid structures. Similarly asset managers…
On 16 December, the Luxembourg regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) announced the fast-track procedure for ESG disclosures required to be made under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR). All Luxembourg regulated investment funds (UCITS, Part II, SIF) that limit themselves to including only ESG disclosures in the prospectus updates can…
Morningstar Appoints Carne as ACD in the UK London, Thursday, 3rd December 2020 – Carne Group, the leading digitally driven industry platform to the Global Asset Management Industry, today announced that Morningstar has appointed Carne Global Fund Managers (UK) Ltd as the ACD for its new range of multi-asset funds. The strategies will target UK…