Erik Breen

Annick Drui, manager of the BL Sustainable Horizon fund. Photo: BLI.
Asset Managers
April 25, 2022

Managing impact funds is a balancing act, says BLI’s Drui

Fund managers looking for sustainable investments can find themselves with incomplete non-financial…
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Products
April 22, 2022

Top 5 emerging markets debt, local currencies: Man GLG

The asset class is caught in a general bear market for bonds. The GBI-EM Global Diversified Index…
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Investing
April 22, 2022

Gave sees silver lining around dark clouds over Ukraine

In the first quarter, investors sold off their Chinese shares en masse. Foreign investors who had…
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Asset Allocation
April 22, 2022

Macro, multi-strategy hedge funds best performers in Q1

Hedge funds with a macro or multi-strategy focus were among the best performing funds in the first…
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Opinion
April 21, 2022

Green inflation

For the moment, inflation is largely caused by a sharp increase in energy prices. Two years ago, the…
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the IMF.
Investing
April 20, 2022

IMF warns of ‘permanent fragmentation’

The International Monetary Fund has warned of a more permanent fragmentation of the world economy…
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Asset Allocation
April 19, 2022

High-yield corporates at a virtual standstill

Rising interest rates and continuing tension surrounding the Ukraine conflict have brought the…
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Nathalie Dogniez, a partner with PwC Luxembourg.
April 19, 2022

MiFID II to test SFDR labelling misconceptions

Failure to understand the requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, known as…
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Severstal is a Russian company mainly operating in the steel and mining industry, listed on the Moscow Exchange.
Asset Allocation
April 15, 2022

Top 5 emerging markets shares: Nordea 1 in the lead

For emerging countries, the first quarter of 2022 was dominated by the war in Ukraine unleashed by…
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Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
Opinion
April 15, 2022

In Flux: a bubbling housing market, Reifs and rising rates

If there is one economic lesson my father, a construction engineer, taught me, it’s that mortgage…
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ECB President Christine Lagarde speaking at Thursday's monetary policy press conference. Photo: ECB.
News
April 14, 2022

Lagarde's roadmap for rates draws a mixed response

As inflation persists across Europe, with double-digit numbers for some eurozone countries, ECB…
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Rosheen Dries, wealth and asset management tax leader at EY Luxembourg. Photo: EY Luxembourg.
Transfers
April 14, 2022

Transfers: Dries to lead EY's wealth and AM tax team

Rosheen Dries has joined EY Luxembourg as the firm’s new wealth and asset management tax leader. She…
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Ritesh Jain, an influential global macro strategist, trend watcher and advisor to family offices and investment companies from India.
Asset Managers
April 14, 2022

‘Globalisation, as we know it, is probably over’

In an interview with Investment Officer, Ritesh Jain, an influential global macro strategist, trend…
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A BNSF coal train in Wyoming. Photo via Flickr.
Sector
April 14, 2022

Warren Buffett's inflation-proof portfolio

Not surprisingly, Berkshire Hathaway has risen 16 percent this year and has outperformed the S&P 500…
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