Investment Officer is an initiative of the FD Media Group, launched in August 2008. It is an independent journalistic platform aimed at investment professionals. Investment Officer operates in three countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Investment Officer’s main objective is to provide investment professionals with high-quality, up-to-date content on relevant events and developments related to their profession and to provide them with interpretation thereof. With that content, the platform aims to be a leading source of insights, journalistic analysis and news for professionals working in this sector.
Investment Officer’s website also features several unique databases, including a database of more than 35,000 mutual funds and ETFs and a database containing more than 13,000 market views and reports from more than eighty asset managers.
Subscribers to Investment Officer can sign up for the newsletter, which is compiled daily by the editors. They can also get the Morning Call in their mailbox, a newsletter with newly added reports from asset managers.
Investment Officer, which carried the name Fund News until 2022, organizes annual networking events, including the Fund Event and the annual Investment Outlook. Events are also organized for the target audience in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Daily management is in the hands of editor-in-chief Lenneke Arts and publisher Jasper Staring. The first is responsible for the editorial policy of all Investment Officer platforms, the other for sales, marketing and business development. Together they run the publishing policy. Investment Officer’s total editorial staff consists of five permanent employees and a shell of freelancers. Working specifically for Luxembourg are managing editor Raymond Frenken, Max Severijns, Mike Gordon and Natalie Gerhardstein.