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 …

The fund services industry is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in its history. While asset managers, asset servicers and fund administrators have traditionally relied on highly manual and process-driven operating models, …

ESG income investing does not have to come at the expense of yield, but it does draw on different sources. ESG-focused dividend funds are widely assumed to sacrifice income, since ESG screens exclude many traditional high payers such as oil, tobacco, and …

Things are getting tense in Iceland! Iceland? Isn’t this the ECB Watch column? Yes, it is. But we will get to the ECB eventually, don’t worry. Anyway, things are getting tense on that geothermal island in the Atlantic Ocean. And I am not talking about the …

Chipmakers are propelling South Korean stocks to new heights, but other sectors are joining the rally as well. Reforms are helping to narrow the “Korea discount”. With a gain of around 60 percent, South Korea’s Kospi index has been one of the standout …

Laura Comas , head of wealth value proposition at Caixabank, has been appointed as a director at Caixabank Wealth Management Luxembourg. She replaces Belén Martín, who is moving to Caixabank CIB as managing director of the group’s international …

While Brussels is trying to steer more European savings toward European companies, US broker Tradestation is building a new European gateway to Wall Street from Amsterdam. The firm is targeting active investors, family offices, wealth managers and other …

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

ECB makes monetary policy programmable

The value of quality

Warsh speech splits Fed watchers

Universal Investment: AI changes fund servicing model

Morningstar: DWS Invest Top Dividend vs DWS Invest ESG Equity Income in Global Equity Income

Tensions in Iceland and why they matter to the ECB

Broad re-rating of South Korean stocks

Transfers: Caixa, Carne, Erste, Amundi, E. de Rothschild AM, Atlas, Schroders

Tradestation opens new European gateway to Wall Street