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 …

Since the outbreak of the Covid crisis, institutional investors have been increasingly looking towards sustainable funds. However, risk management is proving a major challenge, according to a study by asset manager Schroders. Since the outbreak of the …

Despite the huge cost in terms of human lives and economic damage of the corona crisis, European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) summarises the performance of the European fund industry as ‘resilient’. This was reflected in the …

Sustainable equity funds are often associated with solely investing in expensive ‘growth’ companies. This is unfair, believes Maximilian Anderl, manager of the UBS Equity European Opportunities Sustainable fund. His fund has recently undergone a …

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

Schroders: Pandemic boosts sustainable funds

EFAMA: ESG funds remain the trend in ‘resilient’ Europe

ESG growth vs value questioned