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Analysis of the ALFI conference of March 22 and 23, 2022
As the first large-scale ALFI funds events with a substantial in-person presence since the autumn of 2019, the agenda of the European Asset Management conference was strongly focused on the sustainability transition and its impact on the fund industry, already grappling with implementation of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. But the sector is simultaneously having to deal with the fall-out from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russian individuals and companies.
Sustainable fund assets totalled EUR 4 trn at the end of last year, according to Morningstar, but ALFI chairwoman Corinne Lamesch (picture above) notes that asset managers face a...
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