Investors who sharply limit the number of stocks in their portfolio are introducing a lot of extra risk. Even portfolios containing hundreds of stocks are generally not sufficiently diversified to eliminate that risk. Those are the two main conclusions of …

From reviewing thousands of pages for due diligence to scouting new investments, AI is playing an increasingly important role in family offices. The technology not only speeds up analysis, but also allows small teams to process far more information. …

A quarter-point increase in eurozone interest rates looks settled. The signal that follows may matter more for bond markets as energy inflation accelerates and long-term yields rise. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to raise interest rates …

Government bond yields worldwide risk turning from a warning sign of weak public finances into one of their causes, as refinancing at higher rates raises the costs of borrowing and forces governments to issue more debt. Amundi’s group chief investment …

At the end of this week, it will be exactly 25 years since two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. It was the end of one era and, at the same time, the beginning of another. It brought to a close the brief, hopeful period between the …

Technology and artificial intelligence are changing the way asset managers operate. Martijn Kuipers, CEO of Amundi Netherlands says investing in technology is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for remaining competitive. As a result, scale is becoming …

Ask an investor where the stock market will be a year from now, and the first thing he does is look out the window. Not at the sky, but at the corporate headquarters across the street. That, in a nutshell, is the conclusion economists Tobin Hanspal and …

When primary budget deficits, the budget deficit excluding interest expenses, are presented, many investors, journalists and even economists look at those figures and think: that doesn’t seem too bad. But those seemingly small numbers are extremely …

Convertible bonds are hybrid securities that combine the fixed-income characteristics of a corporate bond with an embedded option to convert that bond into the issuer's shares. Investors are often drawn to their asymmetric return profile: equity-like …

Mini-options introduced for retail investors last year have generated more than 500,000 additional contracts traded on Euronext in just twelve months. The exchange operator hopes this “liquidity engine” will draw more institutional investors into Europe’s …

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