Asset owners are going back to basics en masse. Institutional investors are writing large new mandates for global and developed-market equities, wrote bfinance in a quarterly report published this month. The agency, which advises more than 500 pension …

At the time of writing, markets are still pricing in just under a 60 per cent chance that the ECB will raise interest rates one more time sometime in the coming months. And although Lagarde has only recently turned to wage growth as an argument for …

“Shares are no longer dirt cheap, but there are still opportunities. We focus mainly on long-term trends and avoid the riskiest sectors, such as American regional banks and Office REITs,” says Laurence De Munter, investment strategist at Securities De …

Ansgar John Brenninkmeijer, the fifth-generation descendant of the Dutch C&A family, read a popular investment book, founded a fund without any prior experience, had it blessed by a daytrading priest, and has been outperforming “virtually all indices” …

High yield bonds are positioning themselves cautiously in the spotlight as recession fears recede and credit quality improves. While junk bonds perform best during periods of robust economic growth, a region that's closely flirting with a recession is …

Artificial intelligence is eminently an application for investors. Especially in a complex data-rich environment with a lot of uncertainty, artificial intelligence thrives. Artificial intelligence was originally designed to simulate human intelligence …

SFDR Article 8 has become a ragbag of investments that can be both green and grey, several experts say. Fund houses offering Article 8 products do not seem to set the bar very high. While Article 8 products promote environmental or social features, they …

A Luxembourg tribunal decision barring a local company from using investment losses to write off capital gains taxes imposed on a real-estate transaction has caused worry in some corners of Luxembourg’s investment world. Using losses to cut income tax due …

The 'intra-day' turn of the S&P 500 Index following the release of US inflation data is the first evidence that Powell has deprived markets of 'Fed hopium'. US headline inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in July from 3.0 per cent. While that was lower than …

Natural disasters can have a severe impact on the real estate market, yet investors appear unaware of this looming risk. A correction in real estate stocks seems to be lurking. Portfolio manager Lucas Vuurmans of Amsterdam-based investment bank Van …

Asset owners write new mandates for equities

Chart of the week: Is the ECB finally ready?

“Staying invested is the message”

Blessed Dutch fund beats "virtually all indices"

Time to be cautious when pearl diving among junk

Investing with artificial intelligence

SFDR Article 8: The bar is not high

Investors unsure if investment losses can offset capital gains tax

Chart of the week: ‘hopium’ is gone

Climate risks insufficiently priced in by real estate investors