A majority of nearly 3,000 risk managers admit that the pandemic has led to more careless due diligence checks and a more sloppy handling of the Know Your Customer (KYC) principle. In addition, 71 per cent of respondents report that cybercrime is harder …

Newton’s second law states that impact equals mass times speed. It is my conviction that sustainable investors have a greater impact than they often think. Not so much because of the speed, but because of the increasing mass. In the financial markets, it …

An active fund that mainly invests in green and social bonds from emerging markets was not available until last month, when the BlackRock Emerging Markets Impact Bond Fund was launched. The new fund is one of the first two EMD funds with an Article 9 …

At the moment, the healthcare sector is still underdeveloped digitally, while the world population is getting older and more chronically ill. Nevertheless, this sector is also slowly but surely embracing the Internet of Things. Henk Grootveld sees this as …

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet, providing data on net sales of UCITS and AIFs sold in June 2021, at a European level and by fund domicile. Bernard …

You may have noticed that when Whatsapp starts a new chat, it displays a message that “end-to-end encryption” is being used. This means that the content of the messages cannot be read by anyone other than the people in the chat (though some question the …

The Earth should really be called “water”, because 71 percent of our planet is covered with water. Water in abundance, but only 1 percent of all that water is clean and accessible freshwater. Of that, two-thirds goes to agriculture and other food. The …

Accommodative central bank policy, an ageing Europe and the exorbitant increase in debts make interest rate hikes in Europe extremely unlikely in the short term. This increases the risk of negatively-yielding bond portfolios for pension funds and …

How Luxembourg’s fund sector withstood the acute phase of the Covid crisis was summarised by the CSSF in its recently published 2020 annual report. Generally, the regulator was pleased with the performance on risk and liquidity, but it drew attention to …

With almost all indices worldwide at record highs and US stock markets doubling in value after the March 2020 low following the Covid-19 crisis, the risk of a correction is increasing, according to European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the …

Covid-19 undermines KYC compliance

Comment: sustainable investors have major impact

BlackRock first with broad EMD impact fund

Digitalising healthcare offers investment opportunities

Fund flows: UCITS and AIF funds attract lots of fresh money

When the monetary system's neutrality is threatened

Comment: When the well runs dry, we'll know the value of water

Yield strategies during low interest rate

CSSF finds fund liquidity gaps during Covid

ESMA warns of market correction