Institutional Investor (August Issue)
“Morgan Stanley and other banks get serious about sustainable investment.” In April, Morgan Stanley launched an Investing with Impact Platform, which will group sustainable investments (currently some 70 different products) around four categories. UBS is pushing its “analysts to integrate sustainability factors into their company and sector coverage” and now requires “all analysts to include a section on ‘sustainable innovation’ in their annual sector outlook reports.” In addition, Royal Bank of Canada seeded an impact investing fund which it may open to investors next year.
Institutional Investor (April)
Over 1,000 investment professionals were surveyed to select Institutional Investor’s 2011 All-Japan Research Team, the 18th annual. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research shared the top spot with Nomura. Both firms captured 24 positions on the all star team. UBS (18 positions), Daiwa Securities Group (15 positions) and Citi (13 positions) rounded out the top 5.
Over 1,000 investment professionals were surveyed to select Institutional Investor’s 2011 All-Japan Research Team, the 18th annual. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research shared the top spot with Nomura. Both firms captured 24 positions on the all star team. UBS (18 positions), Daiwa Securities Group (15 positions) and Citi (13 positions) rounded out the top 5.
