Erik Breen

CFOs facilitating bank agility
Private Banks
July 14, 2021

CFOs & bank operational agility

Pressure on banks to manage costs and be more agile is felt particularly keenly by the chief…
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Asset Managers
July 14, 2021

Fund administrators confront cybersecurity

Some businesses were driven to quickly put systems in place as the pandemic drove a sudden move to…
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Bullish on ETFs
Investing
July 13, 2021

ETFs are on their way to becoming the mother of all records

All indications are that 2021 will be an unprecedented record year for equity ETFs. In the first six…
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NN Group office
Asset Managers
July 12, 2021

Analysis: Insurance firms divesting asset managers - a trend?

In the coming weeks, the question will be answered as to what fate befalls two important Dutch asset…
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Lukas Daalder, BlackRockchief investment strategist
Asset Managers
July 12, 2021

Inflation no longer driving market corrections

BlackRock calls the new status quo in the global economy ‘New Nominal’. “The ’New Nominal’ is the…
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Christine Lagarde, ECB president
Asset Managers
July 9, 2021

Analysts at a loss: ECB is “extremely vague”

Equity markets in Europe fell sharply on Thursday. It was even the worst trading day of the year…
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Laetitia Hamon
Laws and Regulations
July 8, 2021

ESG data: managing the preferences game

Financial advisors need to gauge client preferences around green and social investing, and the…
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Peter Dom, co-founder and partner of AF Advisors
Asset Managers
July 8, 2021

'Mandate solutions' could start to replace investment funds

Investment services in the Netherlands are the cradle of a true, possibly EU-wide revolution in…
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European flags outside Berlaymont
Asset Managers
July 7, 2021

Brussels raises sustainable finance ambition

The European Commission has identified six key areas to raise its ambitions in the field of…
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Asset Managers
July 6, 2021

Schroders: Pandemic boosts sustainable funds

Since the outbreak of the Covid crisis, institutional investors have been increasingly looking…
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Asset Managers
July 6, 2021

EFAMA: ESG funds remain the trend in ‘resilient’ Europe 

Despite the huge cost in terms of human lives and economic damage of the corona crisis, European…
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Maximilian Anderl, UBS AM
Asset Managers
July 5, 2021

ESG growth vs value questioned

Sustainable equity funds invest in a wide range of assets, not just expensive ‘growth’ companies, as…
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Hannah Simons, Schroders
Asset Managers
July 2, 2021

Sustainability manager calls third-party ESG data “insufficiently transparent”

“Data from external parties are insufficiently transparent to be able to rely fully on in ESG…
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Claude Marx, CSSF director general
Asset Managers
July 1, 2021

Request to review costly bank regulation

The cost of implementing banking sector regulations has risen by an annual average of 16% since 2015…
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