Wealth managers are increasingly tapping into AI and private assets in order to grow their assets under management, according to a Natixis IM survey. The 2025 Natixis Investment Managers Wealth Industry Survey, which polled the views of 520 fund selectors in 20 countries, highlighted increasing AI adoption among wealth managers to improve internal investment processes, business operations and client servicing….

This year’s World Water Day theme,  ‘Glacier Preservation’, focuses on the critical role glaciers play in global water systems and the urgent need to address their rapid decline due to climate change. Glaciers are critical to life – their meltwater is essential for drinking water, agriculture, industry, clean energy production and healthy ecosystems. Yet, their rapid melting disrupts water flows,…

Comgest’s head of responsible investment Sébastien Thévoux-Chabuel (pictured) has left the firm to join a boutique launched by former CEO Arnaud Cosserat late last year. Cosserat resigned from Comgest alongside fellow portfolio manager Alistair Wittet to found Aecus Partners in December. Thévoux-Chabuel will now be reunited with his former colleagues to manage the firm’s European equity funds. “While it’s a new…

The standard setter emphasises internal decarbonisation, action-based targets as part of revamped net zero standard for corporates. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has avoided endorsing the use of carbon credits to offset Scope 3 emissions in the second version of its Corporate Net Zero Standard (CNZS), following backlash last year. The SBTi previously faced both internal and external scrutiny…

With the Trump administration abandoning the net zero effort, an already slim chance of heading a climate crisis has become even smaller. The post The slow, painful death of net zero appeared first on VitalBriefing.

Last year the Earth reached its highest average temperature in human history. Countries around the world have set the ambition of heading off climate catastrophe by reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by around 2050. But with the US Trump administration abandoning the effort, an already slim chance of success has become even smaller.… The post The slow, painful…

With the Trump administration abandoning the net zero effort, an already slim chance of heading a climate crisis has become even smaller. The post The slow, painful death of net zero appeared first on VitalBriefing.