Raymond Frenken

Raymond Frenken

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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Peter Vogel, head of the Global Family Business Center at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Photo: IMD.
Private Banks
June 3, 2026

Peter Vogel: ‘Most wealthy families don’t know how their wealth is performing’

Family offices are often portrayed as sophisticated investment organizations with access to elite…
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Emily Whiting. Photo: JP Morgan AM.
Asset Allocation
June 2, 2026

Asia is no longer just an emerging-markets trade

India may be under pressure from higher energy costs and geopolitical tensions, but investors should…
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Euro notes. Photo: Pixabay.
Investing
May 28, 2026

Luxembourg’s financial machine enters the AMLA era with major readiness gaps

Luxembourg’s role as Europe’s dominant cross-border fund centre may also make it one of the first…
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From left to right: Piera Elisa Grassi (JPMorgan), Tom Stephens (Schroders), Gilles Dauphiné (Amundi) and Michael Mohr (Xtrackers/DWS).
Asset Allocation
May 28, 2026

Active ETFs redraw Europe’s investment landscape

For years, European investors treated ETFs as passive building blocks and mutual funds as the…
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