While the average fund in the Global Large-Cap Blend Equity Morningstar category eked out a 5.8 percent gain last year, it was hardly an easy year for investors. Tariff turmoil, geopolitical tensions, and demanding valuations weighed on sentiment. …

After studying politics, Jean-Paul Daragjati set his sights on finance through a hands-on master’s in wealth management at the University of Luxembourg. Now a private banker at Edmond de Rothschild, he says the secret to success is to never stop learning. …

Concerns about intellectual property leakage are creating unease among European asset managers running active exchange-traded funds. Daily disclosure of holdings, long seen as a defining feature of the ETF model, can also make proprietary investment …

Blackrock has appointed Helen Jewell as international chief investment officer for fundamental equities. A veteran with 27 years of experience across investment management, banking and research, Jewell has spent more than a decade at Blackrock, most …

With the start of a new year, the professionals making the wheels of Luxembourg’s funds sector spin may be considering changing jobs. Recruitment experts share their perspectives on the state of the industry and the trends shaping it. For Jean-François …

EEOC interim chair Andrea Lucas has urged white men who feel discriminated against at work to file a federal complaint. “Are you a white man who has been disadvantaged at work because of your race or gender? Then you may be able to get money back,” Lucas …

The failed partnership between Italy’s Generali and France’s BPCE is more than a collapsed deal in European asset management. It exposes how challenging it remains for Europe to build financial scale once a project becomes truly cross-border, and how …

What began as a tool for measuring risks evolved into a normative framework, only to return under political pressure to its core: the G. After 25 years, ESG has come of age, but not without scars. The rise of sustainable investing is one of the most …

The first trading day of 2026 left no room for doubt. While many investors were still recovering from the champagne, chip stocks surged worldwide and set new records. Taiwan Semiconductor and Nanya Technology reached all-time highs in Taipei, while …

When United States forces seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, the political shock was immediate. The market reaction was not. Oil prices barely moved, investors stayed largely on the sidelines and attention quickly shifted from what had happened …

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