Natalia Bucci has joined Alken Asset Management as head of fixed income and portfolio manager, she has announced on Linkedin. She joins from Lombard Odier Investment Managers, where she co-led the convertible bonds business. Bucci brings more than 20 …

Equity market-neutral funds (EMN) aim to harvest stock-picking skills while stripping out broad market risk. By pairing long positions in favored stocks with short positions in less attractive ones, EMN strategies seek returns that are largely independent …

The rush among private clients to buy into SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they reach public markets is pulling capital into structures few buyers can fully verify, according to Jan van Eck, chief executive of VanEck. He warns that the market has now …

The banks the European single market was designed to enable are the ones underwriting its unfinished state. Two decades into the project of unified financial services, cross-border groups still face materially different national interpretations of the …

The energy crisis and looming jet fuel shortage are a disaster for aviation, but could also hit equity markets hard after all. Asset managers are gloomy about the aviation sector and warn about the consequences for investors. Due to the blockade of the …

In 1972, Richard Nixon flew to Beijing convinced that the world was becoming multipolar. He sought to position the United States as one of several great powers, strong enough to balance the Soviet Union and other emerging rivals. What he could not foresee …

Texas aims to challenge the dominant position of New York and Delaware in the U.S. capital markets with a new stock exchange and more flexible regulation. But sufficient liquidity, reliable price discovery, and investor confidence are not easily achieved, …

When asset managers come under fire, there is only one relevant question for them: how do I maintain trust? Their crisis communication should revolve entirely around that. “When I really think about what asset managers actually own, I come up with chairs, …

Germany’s economy has struggled for momentum in recent years, weighed down by structural headwinds and weak growth, yet its stock market has told a very different story. Over the past several years, the German economy has struggled to regain sustained …

Just like a few years ago, asset managers are once again questioning the traditional 60/40 mix between equities and bonds, as the two asset classes are no longer reacting in opposite directions to market shocks, but increasingly moving in tandem. Is the …

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Morningstar: Blackrock vs AQR in Equity Market Neutral USD

Van Eck warns on opaque SpaceX trading

ABBL warns on EU banking fragmentation

‘Investors underestimate the impact of the energy crisis’

The Trump-Xi Summit

Can the new Texas stock exchange break the East Coast’s hegemony?

Crisis communication: “Everything needs to come out at once”

Morningstar: DWS versus Fidelity in German equity

60/40 portfolio under pressure again, ‘but still too early to bury it’