Accompanying Luxembourg’s finance minister Yuriko Backes on her official visit to Stockholm, Luxembourg’s financial community this week sought to strengthen its financial ties with Sweden, considered a “natural partner” for the Grand Duchy. Backes also …

The neutral mixed fund portfolio consisting of 50 percent equities and 50 percent bonds remains popular despite year-to-date losses. The Morningstar EUR Moderate Allocation - Global category lost 6.8 percent over the first four months of this year, while …

Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands have all put forward candidates to succeed Klaus Regling as the head of the European Stability Mechanism, the 500-billion-euro eurozone bailout fund known as ESM. On Monday, the Eurozone finance ministers …

Europe’s asset management industry on Wednesday threw its backing behind a legislative proposal to give asset managers a bigger say in the application of liquidity management tools, or LMTs, at times of market stress. The managers, not the supervisors, …

The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) is aware that the asset management industry is under pressure to meet green investing rules and is preparing to present detailed guidance shortly. It understands that the rules are complex, often …

Financial markets do relatively well when it comes to predicting the future. Collective wisdom is ultimately translated into share prices. Index investors benefit from this collective wisdom and are effectively free riders to the hard work of many. Yet in …

Oddo BHF Asset Management said it has strengthened its presence in Benelux with the recruitment of André Koeken as sales manager. He is now in charge of developing the clientele of independent financial advisors and insurance companies in the Benelux. He …

Apex Group Ltd continues to add management companies to its group through acquisitions. On Wednesday it said it plans to acquire the fund services and third-party management company business operations of Maitland International Holdings plc, an …

Product launches for Article 8 and 9 funds, sustainability funds and ESG funds are all over the place, but there is no insight into which fund houses are actually putting a lot of assets to work sustainably. Enquiries with Morningstar show that it is …

Private markets are no longer the exclusive preserve of large institutional investors. A round of questions to Dutch asset managers points to an influx of families and high-net-worth individuals - or HNWIs - as private equity becomes more widely available …

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