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Asset managers seek greater transparency into ESG index providers’ ratings
While there is no consensus on whether ESG ratings providers should be regulated, asset managers largely agree that more transparency into their vendors’ methodologies is needed.
Asset Managers Strive to Differentiate ESG Strategies
PanAgora and Manulife have incorporated alternative datasets and internal industry handbooks, respectively, into their ESG strategies.
TOFIS Panel on Machine Learning, AI: ‘Try Everything, Kill What Doesn’t Work’
Panelists at the recent Toronto Financial Information Summit outline the key opportunities and challenges for machine learning and artificial intelligence in the financial markets.
TOFIS Panel: Data Linkages Pose Key Challenges to Alt Data Use
Max Bowie reports from Toronto on Canadian firms' opinions of the challenges associated with using alternative data.
Manulife Names Chakar Head of Data Management
Longtime BNY Mellon exec begins new role
Asset Managers' LDI Growth Pushes Custom Solutions, Front-End Upgrades
Tim Bourgaize Murray chats with Manulife's Eric Menzer about the asset management industry's growing presence in liability-driven investment, and the tech direction his firm has headed as a result.
Manulife AM Taps RiskFirst For Further LDI Expansion
PFaroe to support growing liability-driven investment operations.
Can Alternative Providers Disrupt Index Inertia?
Though there are almost a hundred mainstream index providers in the industry today, the market remains dominated by a small and elite group of providers—MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Russell Indexes and FTSE Group. With the industry clamoring for change…