Luxembourg’s fund industry association ALFI has announced the appointment of its executive committee. The appointment was made by ALFI’s board of directors and publicised in an 8 July 2021 press release. The members of the committee are: Chairman Corinne …

Pressure on banks to manage costs and be more agile is felt particularly keenly by the chief financial officer (CFO). Efficiently provided financial data are key to enabling executives to operate effectively, seek operational efficiencies and increase …

Some businesses were driven to quickly put systems in place as the pandemic drove a sudden move to remote working. This has however meant that despite most businesses having a cybersecurity strategy in place, they haven’t had the time to understand …

All indications are that 2021 will be an unprecedented record year for equity ETFs. In the first six months alone, inflows reached USD 519 billion. This means that all previous records have already been broken. Decades of growth for passive products …

In the coming weeks, the question will be answered as to what fate befalls two important Dutch asset managers: both NN Investment Partners and Actiam are awaiting the Salomon judgment of their mothers, being NN Group and Athora. While NN is still vaguely …

BlackRock calls the new status quo in the global economy ‘New Nominal’. “The ’New Nominal’ is the situation in which higher inflation no longer causes sharply rising interest rates, and dangers for corrections in the stock markets are lower,” said Lukas …

Equity markets in Europe fell sharply on Thursday. It was even the worst trading day of the year, with declines of the major indices from 1.7 to over 2 percent. The reason: investors are afraid of an economic slowdown and overvaluations. At the same time, …

Financial advisors need to take care to gauge client preferences around green and social investing and then the investment products they recommend must keep their Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) promises. Failure to do so carries risk. Accurate, …

Investment services in the Netherlands are the cradle of a true, possibly EU-wide revolution in finance: following in the footsteps of asset owners, such as pension funds, the major banks are also rearranging their client portfolios. No longer with …

The European Commission has identified six key areas to raise its ambitions in the field of sustainable finance. One of them is sustainable finance. To this end, it has drafted a regulation to establish a European standard for green bonds (EUGBS). This …

ALFI announces executive committee

CFOs & bank operational agility

Fund administrators confront cybersecurity

ETFs are on their way to becoming the mother of all records

Analysis: Insurance firms divesting asset managers - a trend?

Inflation no longer driving market corrections

Analysts at a loss: ECB is “extremely vague”

ESG data: managing the preferences game

'Mandate solutions' could start to replace investment funds

Brussels raises sustainable finance ambition