Asset Managers

Sloane Collins. Foto: Blackrock.
Asset Managers
February 19, 2026

Transparency in private markets gains economic value

Investments in private markets are still characterized by limited information and imperfect…
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Nuveen - Schroders
Asset Managers
February 12, 2026

Schroders ends 222 years of family control in US takeover

Schroders has agreed to a 9.9 billion pound (11.4 billion euro) takeover by US-based Nuveen, ending…
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Photo: Amundi.
Asset Managers
February 4, 2026

Amundi’s ETF machine keeps humming, but active pays the bills

Amundi’s full-year results underscore how Europe’s largest asset manager has become a formidable ETF…
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Eric Adler, L&G
Asset Managers
February 3, 2026

L&G looks for growth in public-private funds

Asset manager L&G is planning to set up hybrid “crossover” funds alongside its extensive passive…
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Maxime Carmignac
Asset Managers
January 28, 2026

Why independence matters in asset management: Maxime Carmignac on consolidation, open architecture and culture

The development that some large banks in Europe are closing their doors to open architecture and…
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biodiversity
Asset Managers
January 28, 2026

AXA IM closes biodiversity fund

AXA Investment Managers is shutting down its fund focused on biodiversity due to a lack of investor…
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From left to right: Lorenzo Codogno, Ignazio Angeloni and Nicolas Véron.
Asset Managers
January 6, 2026

Protectionist reflexes still stand in the way of Europe’s champions

The failed partnership between Italy’s Generali and France’s BPCE is more than a collapsed deal in…
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Smallcaps
Asset Managers
December 11, 2025

Investors manage just fine with less research on smallcaps

European regulator Esma is advocating a revision of research rules, expected to take effect next…
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Asset Managers
December 10, 2025

Mandates lose ground to funds

Assets managed through discretionary mandates have expanded more slowly in Europa over the past ten…
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Trump, resilience. Image: Defigners
Asset Managers
December 8, 2025

Resilience in financial markets the surprise of 2025

Many fund houses mark Liberation Day—the day president Trump announced sharply higher US trade…
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Aaron Renkers
Asset Managers
December 2, 2025

In Liechtenstein, VanEck shapes tomorrow’s fund management

In 2020, VanEck chose Liechtenstein to lay the foundation for its first crypto investments. Since…
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Fannie Wurtz
Asset Managers
November 20, 2025

Amundi launches 100 new ETFs by 2028

Fund house Amundi presented its strategic three-year plan on Tuesday. It includes a new business…
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Anna Rosenberg, head of geopolitics at the Amundi Investment Institute. Photo: Amundi.
Asset Managers
November 11, 2025

The new Cold War runs on artificial intelligence

Anna Rosenberg of Amundi Investment Institute says the same forces that once drove nuclear and space…
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BlackRock's headquarters in Manhattan. Photo: IO.
Asset Managers
November 10, 2025

Blackrock: Germany should put its savings to work through private markets

Germany should move its trillions of euros in savings out of banks and put them to work for its…
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