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February 28, 2023
Asset Managers

Luxembourg to elucidate public on ESG finance

Luxembourg’s leading financial sector associations, together with the supervisory authorities and the government, are about to launch a public campaign that seeks to elucidate the general public in the grand duchy on sustainable finance.  In particular, …
February 28, 2023
Asset Servicing

Apex presents ESG database for private markets

Financial services group Apex Group Ltd on Monday announced it has launched a new ESG database and benchmarking platform for private markets.  Apex’s ESG data service is run as a ‘Data as a Service’, or DaaS, platform and draws on information from more …
February 28, 2023
News

FATF: art market needs to improve AML-CFT

The world’s top body to fight money laundering and financial crime on Monday warned that the international high value art and antiquities market has become vulnerable to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It called on art dealers and …
February 27, 2023
Asset Managers

‘Great Reclassification’ among ESG funds not yet over

Even after 40 percent of the EU’s most sustainable fund assets was downgraded during the fourth quarter, managers of investment funds with an outspoken sustainability profile are still not sure whether their funds meet the requirements for ESG investments …
February 27, 2023
Asset Managers

Portfolio Update with Marion Le Morhedec, AXA IM

Marion Le Morhedec is global head of fixed income at AXA Investment Management. For this edition of IO’s Portfolio Update podcast she spoke with Investment Officer ’s Max Severijns. Markets are focusing too much on monetary policy and too little on …
February 27, 2023
Asset Managers

AAIS keen to expand it ESG offering outside ABN Amro

Third-party assets in ABN Amro Investment Solutions’ funds and mandate solutions have been rising since October 2020, with 30 percent of assets under management now coming from clients other than ABN Amro. Meanwhile, the fund house is focusing on its …
February 27, 2023
Private Banks

CEO DeGroof Petercam: ‘My importance is overrated’

Hugo Lasat has been at the helm of Belgian private bank Degroof Petercam for almost a year and a half. The biggest challenge of a bank CEO is constantly being in decision mode, he said in an interview with Investment Officer . “Procrastination is not …
February 27, 2023
Opinion

Chart of the Week: Cash is King!

Investing is a game of relative things, at least if you do it right. Whether you have a short or long horizon, somewhere the question arises as to which asset classes are actually the most attractive. And since central banks have made it a sport since …
February 24, 2023
Supervision

Cyber: CSSF echos ‘alarming’ warning on server updates

Luxembourg’s financial supervisor CSSF on Friday brought attention to a warning from the grand duchy’s cyber security authorities which said an “alarming situation” has been created because more than 500 computer servers have not yet been updated with a …
February 24, 2023
Products

Morningstar Top 5: VanEck leads global dividend funds

After years of dominance by growth stocks, dividend funds had slowly become the wallflowers of the investment universe. Investors flocked to technology, e-commerce and internet companies, which emerged as the stars in the stock market firmament partly due …