Responsible investing in emerging markets – a focus area for investors?

Phil looks at the UK income market through a different lens. His focus is structural rather than cyclical growth. What’s different? A concentrated portfolio with zero exposure to the traditional dividend sectors of high street banks, oil & gas or telecoms.

After a year dominated by the virus, 2021 offers a return to something approaching normality. But fiscal deficits are bloated, debt has soared and many businesses are in trouble. Steven will examine the prospects for recovery and outline his expectations for financial markets.

Join Gary Potter and Anthony Willis for the first Multi-Manager webinar of the New Year as they review broad market performances in a turbulent 2020 and most importantly look forward to the key events, challenges and outlook for 2021.

There is a growing expectation and requirement for investors to adopt better active ownership practices and engage investee companies to encourage more sustainable business practices. However, effective engagement presents several challenges.
In this webinar, we will identify the main challenges to effective engagement and outline how our dedicated engagement and proxy voting service, reo®, can help investors overcome these challenges.

Against the backdrop of a global pandemic it’s been an eventful first year for our low-cost BMO Sustainable Universal MAP range. Join Simon Holmes and Keith Balmer as they explain how our sustainability-orientated approach fared through extraordinary conditions and what lies in store from here.

Join Rob Burdett for our latest monthly update, where he will also be joined by guest manager Nick Davis of Polar Capital for the third in our Value Manager trilogy.
As well as exploring the positive vaccine news and probable Brexit news, Nick and Rob will discuss the ethos behind Polar Capital’s Europe-Ex UK Income fund and how it has navigated the pandemic.

As we head towards the end of an extraordinary year, Paul Niven, manager of F&C Investment Trust, will reflect on what the recent news flow on Covid-19 vaccines means for the future investment landscape and discuss how he has positioned the trust’s portfolio to meet the challenges 2020 has brought.

Join Sam Mahtani and Alan Nolan, Directors of our Responsible Emerging Markets Equities, for our quarterly update on our Responsible Emerging Market fund.

Recovery is on the tip of everyone’s tongue as we take another step towards a “Post-COVID” world. Sam and Alan discuss the risks faced by emerging market investors today, and how responsible, active investing can help mitigate these risks and unlock the true potential of this extraordinary growth story.

Guy Glover and Emma Gullifer will be providing an update on the re-opening of the BMO UK Property Fund, the strategic positioning of the portfolio and the outlook for the Fund and the wider UK property market over the next five years.

Vaccines open the prospect of defeating COVID-19. But how will markets fare against a background of ongoing virus cases, massive fiscal deficits and a new US administration?

Join Nick Henderson, Director of our Responsible Global Equity Fund, on our quarterly updates on the Responsible Global Equity Fund. We will also give you the opportunity to ask Nick any questions you have on the fund as part of a Q&A session at the end of the webinar.

What are the benefits of blending a low-cost, actively managed fund into your portfolio?
Join our multi-asset team for this webinar as we celebrate 3 years of the BMO Universal MAP range. In this webinar, Paul Niven and Keith Balmer share their experiences and outlook on the markets and discuss how this range has continued to outperform and deliver value for clients, despite the challenging economic backdrop.

Vicki Bakhshi and Alice Evans from BMO’s Responsible Investment team will discuss how engagement has evolved in the two decades since BMO’s programme started in 2000; what best practice looks like today; and the priorities for the coming decade, including how BMO will be using engagement to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this post US election special, Gary Potter and Anthony Willis, discuss how the election result could affect markets, the possible repercussions on the US economy and give an update on a 'deal or no deal' Brexit.

In our second session Graham investigates some of the perceived risks associated with investment trusts, such as discounts and premiums, gearing and liquidity and discusses whether they are indeed risks, or in fact a benefit. We finish by asking the key reasons why, and situations when, advisers may find it appropriate to use investment trusts for their clients.

As voters head to the polling booths on 3rd November, the eyes of the world will be on the outcome of the US elections. Will it be a clean sweep for the Democrats, Biden in the Whitehouse but a Republican-controlled Senate, or more of the status quo? Or will we be dealing with impacts of a contested outcome?

Join us for our live, interactive webinar on 4th November to hear our BMO speakers analyse the result and give their insights on what this will mean for investment markets.

Matthew Howard is interviewed by Asset TV on the worth of commercial real estate.