iShares has won the 2021 Morningstar Luxembourg Award for Best Fund House Overall. It’s the first time a passive asset manager wins the overall award. According to Morningstar analyst Ronald van Genderen, the award means iShares has simply produced the …

The AIFMD may not be perfect but it is pretty good, so please don’t reform it after the current on-going review by the Commmission. This was the uniform message from a discussion at the ALFI European Asset Management conference on 16 March. On the topic …

Under the partnership, through its digital platform Moonfare will provide access to private market strategies for Fidelity’s institutional and wholesale clients. Fidelity says it is responding to ‘increasing demand from its investors for alternative …

The Amundi European Equities ESG Improvers Fund differs from other ESG funds in the sense that it does not necessarily invest in ‘expensive’ ESG leaders. ‘We try to identify the ESG leaders of tomorrow that have only relatively recently started to make …

The rally in commodity prices has only just started and has much further to go, according to Phillippe Gijsels, head strategist of BNP Paribas Fortis. This is due to a powerful combination of increasing demand and supply constraints due to years of …

The Grand Duchy hosts few portfolio management operations, despite being a world leader for cross-border asset and fund servicing. Banque de Luxembourg Investments (BLI) is an exception. According to managing director Guy Wagner: “We are a small boutique …

Pets are not just fun to have around, they are also an excellent investment. ‘The pet economy is growing faster than the economy as a whole every year, because it benefits from a number of megatrends that are converging,' according to Andreas Fruschki, …

Looking for companies that can contribute to the decarbonisation of the European economy. That’s the mission of Echiquier Climate Impact Europe, a new impact fund of la Financière de L'Echiquier (LFDE). Remarkably, the fund mostly invests in established …

Positive returns on investment-grade bonds have been hard to come by in the West. The Nordic market is one of the few exceptions, says Michael Weidner, head of European fixed income for global asset manager Lazard Asset Management. He especially likes …

With less than a week until the SFDR reporting deadline, client advisers and asset managers in Luxembourg and internationally are gently testing the water. From how to classify different funds and what to report to investors, the financial industry is …

iShares wins Morningstar Best Fund House Award

‘Don’t touch AIFMD!’ say asset managers

Fidelity takes stake in private markets platform Moonfare

New Amundi fund targets tomorrow's ESG leaders

‘Commodity rally has much further to go’

BLI: We invest to make money, not to beat a benchmark

Pet fund benefits from ‘intersection of megatrends’

New fund to focus on European decarbonisation champions

Lazard AM: Nordic bonds still offer positive return potential

Luxembourg banks play it safe amid SFDR uncertainty