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Impact investing — a specialist field, outside mainstream financial markets, in which investors seek environmental and social outcomes — is burgeoning, leading promoters to raise their targets for the market’s growth. But at the same time, more conventional investors are also laying claim to the term “impact”.
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were not specifically designed for finance, something that perhaps helps to explain their popularity among responsible investors, institutions and borrowers. But this does not mean that factoring them into investing decisions is easy, reports Jasper Cox.
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One of the central planks of the UK government’s policy on how the financial services sector would cope with a no-deal Brexit could turn out to be illegal under World Trade Organisation rules, and could be challenged by other WTO members.
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The Investment Association, the trade body for 250 UK asset managers, is making a concerted effort to become more involved in responsible investment, seeking to influence government policy and help its members navigate this complex area.
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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) and the European Association of Independent Research Providers (EuroIRP) have published guidance on how analysts outside the syndicate banks can access information on UK IPO issuers — hoping to set market practice under the UK’s new IPO rules, which came into force last month.
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Jefferies has hired a three person team from HSBC to build out its UK M&A operations, including Philip Noblet, vice-chairman of global banking and former co-head of banking for the UK.