In 2017, Joof Verhees, senior client advisor and former board member at Van Lanschot Kempen, was asked if he wanted to become team manager of the Dutch national field hockey team. Up to and including the Tokyo Olympics, Verhees was responsible for the ins …

“As corporate profits are rising much faster than expected, high valuations in the equity market are falling fast. Equities therefore remain attractive,” said Natasha Ebtehadj, global equities portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle, in a recent …

In 2008, the ECB changed its approach to a “full allotment” system. "Those apparently meaningless words explain why the savings interest rate is currently zero percent. It is also a benchmark to watch for when the savings interest will rise again. That is …

Where growth stocks won the "battle" of value stocks for many years, value stocks recovered well late last year. Although growth stocks have recently regained ground, several fund houses are still expecting a continuation of the rally by value stocks. T. …

“The relative performance of emerging markets versus developed markets is in cycles. At the moment we are in a downward cycle. Today almost everyone is negative, but certainly in China there are companies with huge cash flows that are very innovative and …

71 percent of ESG investment funds do not meet the global climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement. Moreover, many explicitly named “climate” funds still appear to invest in fossil fuels. Of the large providers, State Street, UBS and BlackRock in …

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating DWS. The stock market watchdog is investigating an accusation that the German asset manager falsely made certain sustainability claims. This accusation comes from Desiree Fixler …

Goldman Sachs has struck a tremendous blow with its takeover of NN Investment Partners, the asset management arm of Dutch insurer NN Group, which was announced a few days ago. At a stroke, it adds EUR300 billion of predominantly European assets under …

"The United States remains the place to be for investors, despite the significant outperformance in recent years. Nowhere are you better served as an equity investor. For emerging markets, caution is especially necessary after the recent debacles in …

Investment Officer Luxembourg recently had an opportunity to speak with Stephan Matti (pictured above), Group Head of Asset Servicing & Financial Intermediaries at Quintet Private Bank, about his role and the advantages of offering asset servicing and …

Sports & Investments: Orange manager Joof Verhees (VLK)

Columbia Threadneedle: no worries on record stock prices

Book: ECB should write off debt, transfer budgetary sovereignty to EU

Fund houses are still betting on value stocks

Econopolis: Emerging markets stockpicking in can work well

Update: Shocking amount of ESG funds not sustainable

Stock market watchdog SEC investigates DWS over ESG claim

NN IP purchase: Goldman Sachs strikes huge blow in Europe

All stock market roads lead to US

Quintet’s Matti: UHNW clients demanding institutional-level services