Firms selling Ucits and alternative investment funds are experiencing a downturn linked to the dire international economic situation, the war in Ukraine and the lockdown in China. Investor demand for these types of funds has dropped sharply, according to …

Hillary Clinton, former US State Secretary, took the stage on Friday at the 2022 Amundi World Investment Forum in Paris to share her views on some of the biggest geopolitical challenges that the world is facing today. “We are in a struggle between …

Over the past five years, US equities have shown superior performance. Measured over the five years ending May 2022, the S&P 500 index achieved an annualised total return of 13.9% in euros, compared with 10.8% for the MSCI World index. The return of the …

The ECB has decided to raise interest rates for the first time in eleven years in an attempt to tackle persistent inflation. Asset purchases will also be halted from 1 July. The decision made in Amsterdam on Thursday marks the end of a long-standing …

Pascal Blanqué, Chairman of the Amundi Institute and former Chief Investment Officer at Amundi, on Thursday said he believes that market thinking behind widening spreads among eurozone government bond yields poses a risk of becoming a self-fulfilling …

It’s been nearly a decade since the European Commission set out its ambitious plans for a Capital Markets Union (CMU), diversifying sources of funding in Europe’s economy. Progress so far has been slow and Brussels now has conceded it needs help to …

Since 1926, the S&P 500 index has fallen by more than 20 percent fifteen times. On average, the index fell 34 percent in seventeen months during such a period. As many as eleven of the fifteen times the market paused somewhere between 15 and 20 percent …

Luxembourg’s SES SA, which likes to describe itself as the world’s only multi-orbit satellite player, has announced the successful launch of senior unsecured fixed rates due 2029 for a total amount of 750 billion euro. The seven-year notes bear a coupon …

Luxembourg has frozen some 4.3 billion euro in Russian assets, mostly held in shares, bonds and bank accounts, as part of the international sanctions against Russia, the finance ministry said. The Luxembourg Business Register, at the request of the …

European central bank policy makers will meet in Amsterdam on Thursday for their annual out-of-Frankfurt meeting at the invitation of Klaas Knot, the Dutch central bank governor who is known for his hawkish approach to interest rates and his support of a …

War, economic downturn hurt fund sales

'We are in a struggle between authoritarianism and democracy'

Top 5: US equity funds risk-adjusted

ECB prepares rate hike for July, ends asset purchases

‘Eurozone spreads risk becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy’

The EU’s Capital Markets Union: ready for the next push

Han Dieperink: equity market may fall further

SES launches 750 mln euro in unsecured notes

Luxembourg freezes 4.3 billion euro in Russian assets

In Amsterdam, ECB council faces eurozone conundrum