{"id":2332,"date":"2021-10-15T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T10:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:49:29","slug":"wealth-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2021\/10\/15\/wealth-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth &#8211; In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>ESG assets\nwill exceed \u00a336.5trn by 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>ESG assets are\nforecast to exceed \u00a336.5trn \u2013 over a third of projected global assets \u2013 by 2025,\naccording to Bloomberg Intelligence<sup>1<\/sup>. The analysis comes as\nenvironmental, social and governance factors are becoming increasingly\nimportant to investors across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Adeline Diab,\nHead of ESG and Thematic Investing EMEA &amp; APAC at Bloomberg Intelligence,\nsaid, <em>\u201cThe pandemic and the global race to net zero carbon emissions have\nput ESG criteria into orbit \u2013 from niche to mainstream to mandatory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Significant\nrecovery for UK dividends in Q2<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>UK dividends\nrose by 51% in the three months to June 2021, jumping to \u00a325.7bn on a headline\nbasis<sup>2<\/sup>. Almost 90% of the increase, when compared to Q2 2020, can be\nattributed to firms restarting dividends. The increase was significantly ahead\nof an expected rise of 31%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Income rich,\ncash poor <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Research<sup>3<\/sup>\nhas revealed that 23% of households with an income of \u00a3100,000 would be unable\nto cover a major unexpected bill or survive more than three months without\ntheir income. The same is true for over one in ten households earning over\n\u00a3150,000. Although high earners have more coming in each month, in turn, they\ntend to have more outgoings, which can make saving difficult. However, the\nimportance of having emergency funds should not be overlooked \u2013 it is essential\nfor improving your resilience to financial shocks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Bloomberg\nIntelligence, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Link\nGroup, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>hl,\n2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong><em>The value\nof investments and income from them may go down. You may not get back the\noriginal amount invested.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESG assets will exceed \u00a336.5trn by 2025 ESG assets are forecast to exceed \u00a336.5trn \u2013 over a third of projected global assets \u2013 by 2025, according to Bloomberg Intelligence1. The analysis comes as environmental, social and governance factors are becoming increasingly important to investors across the globe. Adeline Diab, Head of ESG and Thematic Investing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,89,88,90,33],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}