Asset owners are going back to basics en masse. Institutional investors are writing large new mandates for global and developed-market equities, wrote bfinance in a quarterly report published this month. The agency, which advises more than 500 pension …

Luca Pesarini, founder and senior portfolio manager of Ethenea Independent Investors, does not mince his words, and so the management of the Ethna-AKTIV fund he helped found in 2002 is no nonsense. For instance, in a recent interview, he shows that he …

Switzerland-based investment house Lombard Odier has reported a 4% increase in assets under management since the end of December 2022, reaching 198 billion Swiss francs of assets at the end of June 2023. The result is due in part to “solid contributions” …

In recent years, the regulatory framework for the duties and responsibilities of the board of directors or management board and for the control functions within Luxembourg investment fund managers has evolved significantly. Among others, CSSF Circular …

Artificial intelligence is eminently an application for investors. Especially in a complex data-rich environment with a lot of uncertainty, artificial intelligence thrives. Artificial intelligence was originally designed to simulate human intelligence …

SFDR Article 8 has become a ragbag of investments that can be both green and grey, several experts say. Fund houses offering Article 8 products do not seem to set the bar very high. While Article 8 products promote environmental or social features, they …

A Luxembourg tribunal decision barring a local company from using investment losses to write off capital gains taxes imposed on a real-estate transaction has caused worry in some corners of Luxembourg’s investment world. Using losses to cut income tax due …

The 'intra-day' turn of the S&P 500 Index following the release of US inflation data is the first evidence that Powell has deprived markets of 'Fed hopium'. US headline inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in July from 3.0 per cent. While that was lower than …

Animated movies. German real estate. Trade finance. Polish mortgages. Industrial lasers. Environmental intelligence. Pharmaceutical services. The Luxembourg-domiciled alternative investment funds under the wings of Fuchs Asset Management present a small …

Natural disasters can have a severe impact on the real estate market, yet investors appear unaware of this looming risk. A correction in real estate stocks seems to be lurking. Portfolio manager Lucas Vuurmans of Amsterdam-based investment bank Van …

Asset owners write new mandates for equities

Ethenea founder says Europe mishandling green transition

Lombard Odier reports solid semi-annual results, continuing growth

Directors' Office enhances professionalism

Investing with artificial intelligence

SFDR Article 8: The bar is not high

Investors unsure if investment losses can offset capital gains tax

Chart of the week: ‘hopium’ is gone

‘Several’ parties express interest in Fuchs Asset Management

Climate risks insufficiently priced in by real estate investors