Lipper’s Jake Moeller reviews the Investment Week Sustainable Investment Conference 2014 on November 26, 2014 and examines cash flows into ethical funds. For anybody looking for a feel-good boost heading into the festive season, attending a conference on socially responsible investing (SRI) should definitely be considered. The recent Investment Week Sustainable Investment Conference in London contained a general spirit of goodwill and altruism that permeated a full house of very committed and merely interested delegates alike. For many investors SRI investing, or “ethical” investing as it is still generically known, sits on the periphery of their investment decision-making tree. But

Lipper’s Jake Moeller examines how European fund-of-funds managers are gaining their exposure to high yield bond funds in September 2014. According to Lipper FundFile data, flows into bond funds in Europe in the nine months to September 2014 (€150bn) are double those going into equity funds (€75bn), showing just how resilient the bond rally has been. High yield has been a prime beneficiary as investors eke out income in an ongoing low-interest-rate environment. In local currency terms European high yield, with a 7.9% return, has had the strongest 12 months, with global high yield returning 2.2% over the same period.