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May 16, 2022
Opinion

Chart of the week: did growth stocks lose their lustre?

For years, US technology stocks have beaten the rest of the market. And not by much. This trend was reinforced by the Covid crisis, which pushed the valuation of growth stocks to unprecedented heights - even higher than during the 'dot.com' bubble.  This …
May 13, 2022
Transfers

DNCA hires Switten, Dubuisson from Carmignac

DNCA Finance, a Paris-based boutique investment firm that is part of Natixis group, said on Friday it has hired Jo Switten and Nicolas Dubuisson, who both until recently worked for Carmignac, to strengthen its sales team for the Belgian and Luxembourg …
May 13, 2022
Opinion

Next euro crisis is looming

After Russia, the eurozone is probably the big loser in the Ukrainian war. Not so much politically or strategically, but economically. The eurozone economy was already ailing before the Russian invasion. That is why the buffers are not big. As a result of …
May 13, 2022
Investing

Investors have lost their way, Barron's poll shows

The extent of investor confusion about the outlook for financial markets is clear from the latest Big Money poll by US investment platform Barron's: a quarter of participants are bullish, a quarter are bearish and half do not know.  Barron's conducts its …
May 13, 2022
Family Offices

Family values remain relevant as Anthos transforms

As of this week asset owners can turn to Anthos Fund & Asset Management. The asset manager places high demands on the intrinsic motivation of prospective clients, bearing in mind the original values of its owners, the Brenninkmeijer family, one of the …
May 13, 2022
Asset Allocation

Top-5: the largest Article 9 ‘dark green’ impact funds

The introduction of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation should enable investors to better assess investment funds on their sustainability merits. The framework divides the fund landscape into three groups, with so-called Article 9 funds …
May 12, 2022
Transfers

Blackrock’s Burch to replace Dierick at ING Luxembourg

​Michael Burch has been appointed as CEO of ING in Luxembourg from 1 July 2022. He will succeed Colette Dierick, who has decided to leave ING after 35 years.  Burch joins ING from Blackrock Asset Management, where he was country manager in Hungary. Before …
May 12, 2022
Transfers

Alain Kinsch appointed as new Chairman of LuxSE

Shareholders of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on Wednesday appointed Alain Kinch as chairman of is board of directors. Kinsch succeed Frank Wagener, who served as LuxSE’s chair since 2011 and who is retiring. Kinsch serves on the board of several national …
May 12, 2022
Private Banks,Transfers

HSBC’s Chris Allen named Group CEO at Quintet 

Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank on Thursday said that it has named Chris Allen as Group CEO. Allen, who spent the past 15 years moving up the ranks at HSBC, brings over three decades of financial services experience to the role and will take up the …
May 12, 2022
Investing

Real estate as permanent inflation hedge is 'nonsense'

With macroeconomic factors and market sentiment dragging down yields, investors are wondering what to do with their real estate investments. For one of the most capital-intensive asset classes, isn't rising interest generally a bad sign? “Conventional …