With less than a week to go before one of the most contentious presidential contests concludes, some market participants are ignoring the noise, but many are fretting over shocks to equity markets and the potential fallout from protectionist trade policies.
Companies with a sound corporate governance culture have significantly outperformed their poorly governed competitors since the beginning of 2009, according to fresh research by Hermes Investment Management.
Three-fifths of European institutional investors expect the rise of passive investment vehicles to have a negative impact on shareholder engagement, reported the latest paper in the Hermes Investment Management Responsible Capitalism survey.
The current cocktail of falling asset prices and increasing volatility, combined with still high valuations, seems to confuse fund selectors and managers alike.
The US could create a rising consumption story to rival that of South East Asia, a paper from Hermes Fund Managers claims
Signatories of the PRI initiative helped reduce corruption risk at 16 companies over the past three years, according to a study.
