CPR Asset Management, a boutique owned by France-based Amundi, has added to its €9bn thematic equities range with the launch of a fund linked to the theme of sustainable urbanisation.
The CPR Invest Future Cities fund will invest across the urbanisation ecosystem, the firm said. These include opportunities linked to infrastructure renovation and construction, new technologies designed to manage cities more efficiently and sustainably and new services aiming to make life easier for city dwellers. The global equity fund will be managed by Arnaud du Plessis and Alexandre Blein and will not be benchmarked to any particular index. Amundi subsidiary teams up with NGO for climate fund launch Vafa Ahmadi, head of global thematic equities, said CPR had "spent a lot of ti...
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