Will Hadfield
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SEC commissioner wants power to block single-stock ETFs
Listings of funds that pay out when Tesla or Pfizer shares fall prompt call for tougher regulation → Read More
Optiver overtakes SocGen and SIG in European ETF trading
Dutch market-maker moves into top three by carving out a niche in equity products → Read More
Bermuda ‘examined’ private equity insurers criticised by US senator
Premier David Burt is ‘confident’ pension assets reinsured on the island are ‘appropriately’ regulated → Read More
Flow Traders to offer prices on first bond market run on DLT
The first bond market run on a private blockchain gives non-banks an opportunity to take market share → Read More
US Treasury urged to investigate private equity insurers
Senate banking committee chair says Athene and other PE-owned firms take more risk, may hold less capital → Read More
How PGGM made 11% a year selling credit protection to banks
Dutch investor expects returns to drop over time unless rising inflation widens risk premia → Read More
MSCI’s temperature scores stir angst among green investors
Ratings firm says world’s biggest wind power company will produce more global warming than Shell → Read More
BlackRock’s own reporting undermines its climate claims
Axa, Allianz and Legal & General have all cut their investments’ emissions, unlike BlackRock → Read More
TCFD backs carbon disclosure, but not temperature scores
Influential standard setter decides the implied temperature rise ‘is not ready’ for funds → Read More
Even Covid couldn’t stop insurers buying risky CLO tranches
NAIC rules make mezzanine debt more attractive than AAAs or corporate bonds with similar ratings → Read More
Climate laggards need to make double the carbon cuts – MSCI
Asset managers that wait until 2025 will have to cut emissions by 14% a year to limit warming → Read More
EU and UK climate rules may lead to a disorderly transition
Asset managers can wait until 2024 to disclose the carbon emitted by their investments → Read More
Regulators setting climate rules would be ‘enormous failure’
Risk Live: ‘Trust markets’ not regulators to move capital away from big carbon emitters, says LGIM → Read More
Regulators must make firms reveal climate risk – MSCI, FRR
Asset managers need accurate data on carbon emissions, followed by targets to lower them → Read More
Warren Buffett becomes litmus test for ESG investors
Asset managers plan to vote against boards of companies that lack a climate strategy → Read More
Some dealers are much cheaper than others; now you know who
New system will name the three cheapest dealers for liquid securities and show how much they cost → Read More
A bitcoin ETF could threaten the world’s biggest crypto fund
Regulated funds may suck away demand for Grayscale’s off-exchange investment trusts → Read More
The world’s largest bitcoin fund has a tracking error problem
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust moved from trading at an average premium of 36.5% to an 11.6% discount → Read More
State Street to look after bitcoin, just don’t call it custody
The second-biggest custodian will provide “record-keeping services” for the unregulated asset → Read More
Funds rush to take the temperature of their portfolios
Big investors, including BlackRock, are using new metrics to measure their funds’ carbon emissions → Read More