Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti and Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter.
Wealth Managers
July 30, 2026

UBS at loggerheads with Bern as Q2 exceeds expectations

UBS once again exceeded expectations, but for Europe’s largest wealth manager, the biggest challenge…
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Laws and Regulations
July 28, 2026

How Luxembourg’s RAIF changed European private markets

Ucits helped establish Luxembourg as Europe’s leading domicile for cross-border retail investment…
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AMF president AMF voorzitter Mari-Anne Barbat-Layani (left) and her AFM counterpart Laura van Geest.
Supervision
July 23, 2026

AFM and AMF challenge Luxembourg over ESMA role

The Dutch and French market regulators have told EU governments to move beyond debating whether ESMA…
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Luxembourg. Photo: Unsplash.
Family Offices
July 23, 2026

Orientis sees family office gap below 500 million euros

A gap is opening in Europe’s family-office market between families large enough to need…
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Maria Luís Albuquerque, European Commissioner for Financial Services. Photo: EU.
Laws and Regulations
July 6, 2026

Banking Union faces credibility test

The European Union is reopening one of the hardest questions left from the global financial crisis…
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De sterke vraag naar chipmachines van ASML weerspiegelt de wereldwijde investeringsgolf in AI-infrastructuur. Foto: ASML.
Investing
July 3, 2026

A new capex supercycle is taking shape

Capital expenditure is set to become the defining theme for investors in 2026 as a new investment…
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Kluis
Private Banks
July 1, 2026

Wealth keeps economy afloat, UBS says

Private wealth is increasingly shaping the economic cycle, not just reflecting household prosperity…
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Hans van Summeren (left) and Frank de Hek. Photo: Andreas Capital/Oaklins.
Family Offices
June 26, 2026

Oaklins buys Andreas Capital to move into family wealth

Oaklins Netherlands is acquiring multi-family office Andreas Capital, a move that will allow the M&A…
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Europese vlag in Straatsburg. Photo: Philippe Buissin, EU.
Supervision
June 25, 2026

Fault lines visible as EU gears up for market supervision push

Europe’s plans to centralize capital markets supervision are sharpening tensions inside the EU…
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Guy Stear, head of developed markets strategy at the Amundi Investment Institute. Photo: Amundi.
Investing
June 25, 2026

New AI phase may favor Europe, says Amundi

Europe’s long-discounted equity market may gain a new growth argument as artificial intelligence…
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Anneka Treon on investing in Europe: "If you miss 25 years of compounding your wealth through investments, that really starts to hurt." Photo: Jeremy Fdida/Amundi.
Private Banks
June 22, 2026

ING takes market-by-market approach to European wealth

ING is not rolling out a single wealth management model for the whole of Europe. Instead, the Dutch…
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Philippe Aghion - Amundi
Investing
June 17, 2026

Aghion says Europe must stop fighting yesterday’s battles

Europe risks focusing on the wrong problems in its race to remain competitive, Nobel Prize-winning…
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Former Federal Reserve Governor James Bullard (left) in discussion with former ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet - Amundi
Investing
June 16, 2026

Trichet warns against abandoning 2 percent inflation anchor

For more than a decade, the dollar, euro, yen and sterling have shared a common definition of price…
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Football - Heitor Vitar - Pexel
Asset Allocation
June 10, 2026

Football is emerging as an investment market

Football is attracting growing interest from private equity firms, lenders and other institutional…
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