Mini-options introduced for retail investors last year have generated more than 500,000 additional contracts traded on Euronext in just twelve months. The exchange operator hopes this “liquidity engine” will draw more institutional investors into Europe’s …

By financing the hyperscalers’ artificial-intelligence buildout, bond investors are taking on more exposure to the same investment cycle that dominates the US stock market. That seems awkward for an asset class many investors own precisely to diversify …

Felix Germann has been appointed country head for Germany, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe at JP Morgan Asset Management. Based in Frankfurt, he reports to Christoph Bergweiler, head of the firm’s fund business in continental Europe. The …

Euroclear has taken control of Spanish fund platform Inversis, giving the Brussels-based market infrastructure group also a larger foothold in Luxembourg as it expands deeper into European fund distribution and asset servicing. Euroclear increased its …

Will space become the next major investment theme after artificial intelligence? The lunar base Elon Musk plans to build with Space X is already opening up prospects for a new era in which resources are also extracted beyond Earth During Space X’s first …

Several financial advisers confirm that wealthy Belgian entrepreneurs are considering moving abroad. In particular, a perceived lack of respect for entrepreneurship and the risks that come with it is cited as a reason. “The anchors are coming up!” warned …

The fund salesman was supposed to lose relevance as cheap ETFs made investing easier. Instead, record flows and the rise of active ETFs are creating demand for a new breed of highly paid, increasingly technical sales specialists. ETFs automated the …

Tokenization is reaching the heart of central banking. ECB executive board member Isabel Schnabel wants central bank money to become programmable, a shift that could eventually change how the ECB provides liquidity and transmits interest-rate decisions …

Value and quality both generate excess returns in equities, but in many respects they are opposites. Quality stocks take one route to above-average returns, while value stocks take the opposite route. This year, value stocks are performing much better …

Kevin Warsh sounded hawkish at Jackson Hole on Friday and markets raised the odds of a September rate hike. Fed watchers agree on the tone. They disagree on whether the Fed chair was signaling his next move. The Fed chair’s first major speech pushed back …

Euronext sees retail investors as ‘liquidity engine’ for derivatives market

AI debt boom erodes bonds’ role as a diversifier

Transfers: JP Morgan AM, Pictet, ING, PGIM, Deloitte, GIC

Euroclear expands Luxembourg funds footprint with Inversis

Space mining is not imminent, but it is no longer science fiction

Warnings over Belgian capital flight grow louder

ETFs were supposed to kill the salesman. They didn’t

ECB makes monetary policy programmable

The value of quality

Warsh speech splits Fed watchers