UBP launches emerging markets impact fund and enhances governance

Governance structure formalised

Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has launched the UBAM Positive Impact Emerging Equity funds as it expands its impact investing platform.

The fund will sit alongside the UBAM Positive Impact Equity fund which launched in September 2018 and employ the same strategy of investing in companies that are helping to solve global problems such as scarcity of resources, poverty and climate change. UBP also said it had enhanced its governance by setting up an impact advisory board and an impact investment committee. UBP launches frontier markets sovereign bond fund The firm said the latest fund launch "intends to generate a measurable social and environmental impact alongside as well as a financial return, by investing in list...