ICMA Podcast

The financial imperative for investing with women

ICMA’s Leigh Anne Cooke interviews Julia Rees, Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management about gender lens investing and how diverse thinking leads to better investment outcomes. The conversation covers women as professionals in gender lens investing, as clients and as asset managers and the potential effect on society as a whole.

Negative yielding bonds

ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council Chair Robert Parker talks to Arthur Carabia about the unprecedented quantity of negative yielding debt, how fund managers are adapting their behaviour to meet the challenge and the outlook for 2020.

The European repo market

The latest ICMA repo survey sets the baseline for European repo market size at around EUR 7.8 trillion. Survey author, Richard Comotto & ICMA’s Alexander Westphal discuss the survey results, trends and whether or not SFTR reporting will spell the end for the survey after almost 20 years.