The European Commission has published a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), paving the way for much-needed mandatory European sustainability reporting standards (ESS). Insufficient availability of meaningful, comparable, reliable and public ESG data is a key impediment to realising the full potential of the EU's sustainable finance regulatory framework. EFAMA, therefore, encourages the co-legislators to maintain the ambition of this proposal.
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EFAMA calls for prompt adoption of ambitious mandatory sustainability disclosures under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Monthly Statistics January 2021| January another strong month for UCITS equity funds
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales data of UCITS and AIFs for January 2021.
International Statistics Q4 2020 | US election and vaccine news drive strong growth in fund net assets globally
Investors’ confidence strengthened in the last quarter of the year thanks to positive vaccine news, driving a surge in net assets and inflows across the world. A sharp rebound in equity fund net sales in Europe and sustained net inflows into bond funds in the United States underpinned long-term fund sales growth internationally. Meanwhile, sales of worldwide MMFs turned positive again due to strong net inflows in China and Europe, offsetting net outflows in the United States.
The main developments through the quarter are as follows:
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